Editor doesn't know Bronx from Baltimore

The photo that should have appeared on Friday's Page 1. 

Editor Marty Gottlieb continues to obsess over sports, with daily coverage of the Yankees on Page 1, but readers are howling over weak columnists and embarrassing copy desk errors.

Even a non-baseball fan like me knows the Yankees faced the Orioles in the Bronx on Thursday night, so why does the sports column on Friday's Page 1 carry a Baltimore dateline? 

What about the purple prose from Staff Writer Bob Klapisch, complete with a typo?

"The teams are so evenly matched the game are more like wars, the at-bats thinly disguised hand-to-hand combat."

And you thought Mike Kelly was the worst writer on the paper?

Next to the Klapisch column on Friday, Gottlieb ran a big photo of Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan after their debate on Thursday night, but the men were shown from the neck up.

They looked like they were arm wrestling or about to bite the other guy's ear off, but the caption said they were "shaking hands."

And why didn't The Record's story tell readers who "won" and "lost" the debate, as the media was so eager to do after the presidential candidates' face-off?

It gets even worse

Friday's paper got worse -- thanks to head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her deputy, Dan Sforza.

The agoraphobic Road Warrior continues to rely on readers as his eyes and ears -- so Staff Writer John Cichowski's L-1 column delivered the breaking news that big trucks menace drivers on Route 17.

An astounding seven photos in Local on Friday and Saturday show the aftermath of non-fatal automobile accidents.

Saturday's Local section also has more than a dozen court or crime stories. 

Celebrating cheap beef

In the apparent belief readers can't get enough beef raised on harmful antibiotics and growth hormones, Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung wrote about a new Korean barbecue restaurant (Better Living on Friday).

Korean barbecue restaurants are notorious for offering cheap cuts of meat that are marinated to tenderize them and make them taste better. 

Ung doesn't even report that some Korean restaurants serve 10 or more free side dishes, compared to the six in a photo with her review (the other dishes shown are served only with barbecue).  

Does Gilmok in Closter offer shrimp or other seafood to grill on the table for non-meat eaters or customers who want to avoid mystery cuts of beef?

Does Gilmok, like virtually all Korean barbecue restaurants, require a minimum of two orders of meat ($22.95 to $28.95 each).

The answers to those and other questions don't appear in the lukewarm appraisal.