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It doesn't look like the city of Tampa, Fla., has anything to worry about from Tropical Storm Isaac, but it should be on guard against all the hot air coming from Governor Christie.
Just imagine how our obese governor is sweating bullets going to and from appearances in connection with the Republican National Convention.
Talk about "the elephant in the room."
The Record's fawning editors are knocking themselves out to stay on his good side.
They continue to prostitute themselves with four straight days of front-page coverage, culminating in today's Page 1 story and column on Christie's keynote speech tonight.
No Jersey impact
This, after all, is a speech that has no impact on New Jersey and its residents.
It's just divisive politics, the same kind of rhetoric that has paralyzed Congress, but the bored media can't get enough.
Bad journalism
Today, Hackensack residents see really bad news -- a new date for the sentencing of their disgraced police chief, Ken Zisa (L-3).
Hard to imagine Superior Court Judge Joseph S. Conte didn't realize he had "conflicts" in his schedule until Monday.
He put off Thursday's hearing until Sept. 20. Let's hope that's the last delay, and that he remands Zisa rather than allowing him to remain free pending his appeal.
More on Zisaville
The Zisa coverage has been so intense there have been no stories about anything else in Hackensack -- not even such basics as the budget, tax rate and so forth.
Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her deputy, Dan Sforza, were so desperate to fill today's Local news section they had to resort to three non-fatal accident photos.
Desperate columnists
On Monday, Mike Kelly was so desperate for a column he wrote about stuff Zisa did in 2008 (L-1).
On Sunday, Road Warrior John Cichowski was so desperate for a column he wrote about people who bicycle across the George Washington Bridge (L-1).
Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung also was desperate for a Sunday column (BL-1).
She wrote about a New York organic bread bakery whose products are available in only a handful of supermarkets in North Jersey.
If the stuff is so good, why isn't any of it served in North Jersey restaurants?
Long live Mayor Cerbo
On Saturday's L-6 , an obituary of former Hackensack Mayor Fred Cerbo failed to mention one of his strongest assets is that his last name wasn't "Zisa."
Editor Marty Gottlieb must have been scraping the bottom of the barrel by leading Friday's paper with a rehash of Zisa's ex-wife seeking half of his $11,000 monthly pension.
The same, exact story ran a week earlier in the Local section (Aug. 17).
The only thing notable about Friday's story is that Staff Writer Karen Sudol actually interviewed seemingly ordinary residents about the issue, rather than quoting the usual gadflies and longtime city critics.
Tomorrow: Who Marty should fire
Did you notice that there is a new marketing person listed on the masthead? Wonder what happened to the old one?
ReplyDeleteWho was the old one? I just recycled a bunch of papers.
ReplyDeleteThe one listed today is "Maggie Grande, Director/Marketing."
"Grande" is the Spanish word for "big."
Let's hope she has big ideas, and is not just big, like some of the news editors, who refuse to cover the obesity epidemic or our growing governor.