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| This is an article published in The New York Times on Dec. 15, 1915, on the Armenian genocide. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The geniuses on The Record's night copy desk took their lead from The Associated Press, the news wire service widely known as The Associated Mess.
So, the line over today's Page 1 photo seems comical.
"SUSPECT'S DAZED LOOK ANGERS FAMILIES."
"Dazed"? The suspect is a madman who killed 12 people in a movie theater in Colorado. Of course, he looks dazed.
The comedic aspect is emphasized by the use of five photos of the suspect's clown-colored hair (A-1 and A-5).
Localizing the news
Editor Marty Gottlieb tried to "localize" the Colorado story with two sidebars -- one on the Bergen County native who is running the Aurora, Colo., Police Department, and the other quoting Governor Christie, who shoots off his big mouth on gun control.
On A-1, the first story calls the shooting "the most extensive mass shooting in the nation's history." That can't be right.
Did anyone on Editor Liz Houlton's news copy desk question the use of the words "mass" and "most extensive"?
If the Holocaust is a "mass" murder and the Armenian genocide is a "mass" killing, how can the murder of 12 people be called "mass"?
Unless this is typical newspaper hype.
Hollywood crap
And shouldn't The Record and other media focus on how Hollywood spends obscene amounts of money churning out violent crap like the latest Batman movie?
Where are the movies about the people who own and edit newspapers?
Even such great newspapers as The New York Times and The Washington Post have employed editors and reporters who have simply made up stories and quotes under deadline pressure or in the pursuit of big journalism prizes.
Where are the movies about the people who own and edit newspapers?
Even such great newspapers as The New York Times and The Washington Post have employed editors and reporters who have simply made up stories and quotes under deadline pressure or in the pursuit of big journalism prizes.
Perversity of sports
For more laughs, take a look at another Page 1 story today on Pedophile State.
Leave it to the NCAA to put football in its place in State College, Pa., where the university has earned the title of Ped State, Penis State or Prick State.
When is The Record and other media going to put football and other sports where they belong -- in the Sports section?
Instead, the Woodland Park daily under Gottlieb and former Editor Francis "Frank" Scandale has glorified sports on the front page, ignoring the potential for abuse from all that male bonding.
More police news
In head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' Local section, the big Hackensack news today is a terrific story about a woman who helped catch a suspect in her purse snatching after he returned to the scene of the crime (L-1).
But when Sykes virtually ignores municipal news from Hackensack in favor of police news and news about the former police chief, that's a real crime against readers.
Some readers wonder why a local obituary -- on a Clifton man who developed the first successful home treadmill -- didn't run on Page 1 in place of the Sally Ride obit (L-6).
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