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| The Bergen County Courthouse in Hackensack is one of the state's busiest, yet readers see relatively few legal stories from The Record's full-time reporter there. |
When you look at three of today's section fronts, you have to wonder if The Record's editors talk to one another.
If the edition has a theme, it would be perverted males and the exploitation of women, though the model in a "sexy" waitress outfit looks more like a teenager (Better Living front).
Boy Scout sex
Editor Marty Gottlieb leads the paper today with a report on "sexual misconduct" by New Jersey Boy Scout leaders dating to 1976, a story that first appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes leads the Local news section with "parents on edge" over luring incidents in Hackensack, Maywood and four other towns (L-1).
Then, the Better Living cover reports on what's "hot" in Halloween costumes.
"You name it and it comes in a tight, skin-baring version," the story says of women's outfits (BL-8).
Calling all letchers.
Mass-transit news
The A-1 story on a two-week-old love triangle murder-suicide carries the byline of Richard Cowen, but the long, wordy lead paragraph resembles something you'd see in Gottlieb's old paper, The New York Times.
One of the victims was an NJ Transit bus driver -- the closest The Record gets to covering our overburdened mass-transit system.
In another A-1 story -- on the man arrested on charges of trying to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan -- reporters don't explain how he managed to get a parking space.
Guv's personal columnist
Is political Columnist Charles Stile kidding when he describes Governor Christie as a rock star (Local front)?
How many 400-pound rock stars do you know?
Actually, Christie's weight is a mystery, because the obese Republican refuses to discuss that or his health.
Stile also says Christie is "a household brand." For what, pork belly?
I'm sure the reporter meant "household name" -- as in, "That scumbag Christie lied when he said he'd lower our property taxes."
Disorder in the court
Also on L-1 today, Staff Writer Kibret Markos has another report on the trial of two police officers on charges of "helping suspects with personal ties to then-Police Chief Ken Zisa."
It's bad enough Sykes and her deputy, Dan Sforza, think Zisa and related stories are the only Hackensack news readers want.
The lazy, incompetent assignment editors still haven't explained why so few stories are reported from the Bergen County Courthouse in Hackensack, one of the busiest in the state.
Looks like a winner
After months of writing off Democratic candidate Adam Gussen, a story on L-3 today reveals the newly configured 5th Congressional District includes 44 of Bergen County's 70 towns.
Seventy-two percent of its voters are registered in heavily Democratic Bergen County.
Gussen, the deputy mayor in Teaneck, spoke to the paper's unnamed Editorial Board, and said his bid to unseat arch-conservative Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantange, "really is winnable."
The Record published a long, flattering profile of Garrett, one of Congress' chief naysayers, but a Gussen profile still hasn't appeared.
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