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| The Record waxes poetic about grass-fed cheeses from sleepy Hunterdon County, above, but doesn't tell readers if any of them are served in Bergen County restaurants. |
The Sunday edition of The Record reads as if all of the editors are on vacation -- along with hundreds of thousands of metropolitan area residents.
There is noticeably less traffic, though no fewer maniacs out there, and noticeably less news in today's Woodland Park daily.
Page 1 is filled with an endless he said/she said account of the July 14 death of Gabrielle Reuveni, the 2010 Paramus High School valedictorian.
The story never tells readers whether she used poor judgment by running with her back to traffic and the mentally unstable driver whose car ran her down.
Emergency room
The only news on A-1 is a round of layoffs at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
This account omits an important detail. As a non-profit, is the medical center under the same bottom-line pressures as a for-profit hospital?
Crystal-ball news
An A-1 blurb refers readers to more endless palaver on Governor Christie's keynote speech at the Republican National Mindfuck -- a news story on A-4, an Opinion front column and a Margulies cartoon showing our obese governor shoehorned into a "Jersey Comeback" race car that is going nowhere (O-2).
Neither story discuss whether voters would ever elect a candidate who can't control his many food demons or even if he is healthy enough to be president.
No local news
Readers looking for municipal news strike out again today in Local, the section under the lazy and incompetent direction of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her deputy yes man, Dan Sforza.
Road Warrior John Cichowski hangs an entire column on a single intersection in Fair Lawn that he learned about from a reader's e-mail (L-1).
Commuters can go back to sleep.
Home run for readers
The one L-1 story that shines is the obituary of Nancy Bays, a retired waitress from Elmwood Park who died last Sunday, six days shy of her 89th birthday.
Bays hated the Yankees. Don't miss the punchline at the end of the piece (L-7).
Say cheese
In Better Living, Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung writes an entire column about Bobolink Dairy in far-off Hunterdon County without telling readers whether its grass-fed cheeses are served in Bergen County restaurants (BL-1).
The Real Estate front celebrates the greed of investors who make huge profits off of the misery of people who lose their homes to foreclosure (R-1).
Reader beware.
If it's any consolation Victor, most Record readers would not know where Hunterdon County is unless a Housewife was there...much less to look for cheese from the place.
ReplyDeleteAnyone have any clue what's going on with home delivery? My neighbors are complaining about non-delivery...something about a change in distribution...
ReplyDeleteI am having trouble with my home delivery of The Record. There was a mix-up with the delivery the days I went on vacation. I received Sunday's paper, but not Monday's. The customer service rep. explained the carriers have been switched around in some areas. I know because I have a new carrier.
ReplyDeleteOn Bobolink, I drove to the Hunterdon County farm after the dairy moved there from Sussex County, where I bought cheese and bread several times.
ReplyDeleteWhen I walked into the bakery, I hoped to buy a cup of fresh coffee, but the owners don't know the meaning of hospitality when they're in the middle of nowhere.
Here is a link to a post on my food blog from that visit in 2010:
http://doyoureallyknowwhatyoureeating.blogspot.com/2010/10/we-drove-70-miles-for-tepid-welcome.html