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The Record's front page today carries an apology for problems "with telephone calls to our offices in the 973 area code."
But I didn't see any apology for a dull newspaper from Editor Marty Gottlieb and head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes.
The lead story on Page 1 today is about failure of a "river cleanup" in a region where just about all of the rivers are stubbornly polluted.
The biggest element on A-1 is about Halloween in Clifton -- one of an estimated 90 towns in the circulation area.
How does Hackensack manage to pull off an entire block of homes decorated for Halloween while Clifton chokes on just one house?
More sports on A-1
The other Page 1 stories are about the presidential race and baseball.
The lead story on Monday's front page ran under a riveting headline: "Towns buried in paperwork."
The biggest element on Page 1 is about Samantha Oh, a Korean woman who is the first female Asian-American officer on the staff of the Bergen County sheriff.
This is only the latest story about Korean-Americans, who get far more coverage in The Record than North Jersey's larger ethnic groups.
Elephant goes berserk
Local on Monday and today carried little municipal news, and nothing from Bergen's most diverse towns: Hackensack, Teaneck and Englewood.
Today, Columnist Charles Stile dissects Governor Christie's appearances for GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney without discussing the elephant in the TV studio (L-1).
Many viewer watching Christie on CBS' "Face the Nation" shook their heads over just how big he has grown -- a subject Stile and the media won't touch with a 6-foot hero sandwich.
What didn't happen
On Monday, Columnist Mike Kelly bored readers again with something that didn't happen in his hometown of Teaneck, calling it "a story of our times" (L-1).
Somehow, the editors missed reporting the death of international motorsports journalist Chris Economaki of Ridgewood on Saturday or Sunday.
The obituary finally appeared on Monday (L-5).
This is only the latest story about Korean-Americans, who get far more coverage in The Record than North Jersey's larger ethnic groups.
ReplyDeleteBecause they are far, far smarter than those other ethnic groups?
They enhance; the others detract and bring down our intelligence level average..
It's people like you who bring down "our intelligence level average," to use your words.
ReplyDeleteYou obviously haven't met all of the Korean waiters, cooks, limo drivers and others in service jobs. I am sure they are no smarter than members of other ethnic groups.
But even if they were, that's no reason to cover the Korean-American community out of proportion to others.