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| Paterson's Great Falls on Thursday. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is praying to God to dry up the falls as a sign he will defeat Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-Paterson, in November. |
In trigger-happy Colorado, at least 12 deaths at the hands of a maniac armed with assault rifles didn't move President Obama or the GOP pretender, Mitt Romney, to call for better gun control.
And those deaths probably won't change anything, fading into history along with all of the other massacres that have grabbed headlines in The Record and other media for a few days.
Good headlines
Good headlines
Today's coverage by more than 20 news and feature reporters (A-1, A-5, A-8 and A-11) completely dominated Page 1 under an unusually good set of headlines:
Moviegoers caught
in real-life horror
Shooting spree rocks the nation yet again
As good as today's effort is, it doesn't make up for the clunky, awkward, confusing headlines on Friday's Page 1:
a tragic twist at home
Son leaves hospital on news house is on fire
If you think that's bad, the Web version was even worse:
As Passaic man's dad dies, a tragic twist engulfs their home
How does "a tragic twist" engulf anything?
The word "twist" comes up again today in a Star-Ledger story about a Newark fire that killed 5 (A-3):
"In a heart wrenching twist, their deaths came on the same day the children's mother was in a nearby hospital giving birth."
The news copy editors are either twisting and shouting in the quiet Woodland Park newsroom or the headlines come from the twisted mind of Production Editor Liz Houlton.
Six-figure editors
It's hard to understand what Houlton and head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes do for their six-figure salaries.
On Friday and today, Sykes' Local section ran no Hackensack news, but she found room for a photo of a tree hitting a Ridgewood house on Friday (L-2) and a fallen tree blocking a Ridgewood street on Saturday (L-3).
Maybe Hackensack can get into the paper by planting more trees and knocking them down.
A rabbi's rabbi
Sykes also made room today for another L-1 story on the campaign of Republican Shmuley Boteach to unseat Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. of Paterson -- which is as likely as the Great Falls drying up.
Boteach is a wealthy, publicity savvy rabbi who lives on Englewood's East Hill, not far from Chairman Malcolm A. "Mac" Borg's mansion.
The photo of Boteach on L-5 shows the rabbi in a Moses-like appeal to God for the Ten Commandments of Public Relations.
What does he need them for? He already has Sykes and Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza in his pocket.
Readers who are Democrats still haven't seen anything on the campaign of Teaneck Deputy Mayor Adam Gussen, who is challenging Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage, in the Fifth District, which includes Hackensack and Fair Lawn.
Another Walmart
On today's Business page (A-10), a story about a Walmart supermarket planned for Hawthorne doesn't mention rumored plans for a Walmart Supercenter on 20 Hackensack acres owned by North Jersey Media Group.
On today's Better Living front, harmful animal antibiotics, growth hormones and preservatives appear to be on the menu at Mack's American Bar & Grill in far-off Pompton Lakes (Starters, BL-1).
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