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The Record's editors are blessed today by a perfect storm of news that has little to do with life in North Jersey's home-rule communities.
Hurricane Sandy, the presidential election and a silly high school football game hand the editors another excuse for not covering local news in Hackensack, Englewood and so many other towns.
How easily Editor Marty Gottlieb has switched from trying to predict the outcome of the election on Nov. 6 to trying to predict how bad this week's storm will be (A-1).
Treating locals as yokels
But there's no hiding the weakness of today's local news report, thanks to an assignment desk run so poorly by Editors Deirdre Sykes and Dan Sforza.
On the Local front, Road Warrior John Cichowski goes over the same old ground on those red license-plate decals for young drivers (L-1).
Cichowski has made an art out of rewriting old columns, ensuring he won't have to leave the office and actually report on such pressing issues as the overburdened mass-transit system and worsening traffic congestion.
A Charles Stile column provides more ink for Republican Shmuley Boteach, the Englewood rabbi and publicity monger who is challenging Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-Paterson (L-3).
Meanwhile, Sykes and Sforza continue to ignore Teaneck Deputy Mayor Adam Gussen, a Democrat who is taking on one of Congress' chief naysayers, Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage.
Garrett has done a masterful job of controlling The Record's coverage of his radicalism, refusing to be interviewed for any of the stories reported by Washington Correspondent Herb Jackson.
What is Garrett hiding, and is there any doubt Jackson is a pussy?
At the bottom of the Opinion front, the editors continue to pussy foot around the reason Columnist Mike Kelly has been temporarily silenced (O-1).
Score one for long-suffering readers.
Blog milestone
Eye on The Record marked its third anniversary last week. LOL.
Mike Kelly had a heart attack, so maybe before you talk about something, you should know what's going on first.
ReplyDeleteNo big deal. Thousands of people have heart attacks every day. The surprise is that he was in good shape, a jogger for many years, and may have still been jogging.
ReplyDeleteHe had one of those cushy dayside jobs that allowed him and others to leave the building and jog, while night side workers didn't even get a dinner break.
He's lucky to be alive, and I hope he takes it as the serious warning that it is.