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You'd think The Record's editors would be exhausted from covering the presidential campaign, but you'd be wrong judging from the Page 1 column that kicks off hyping the 2013 gubernatorial election in New Jersey.
Just three weeks after President Obama's decisive victory over the greedy Republicans, "new polls showed that Governor Christie could be poised for a landslide re-election victory," Columnist Charles Stile reports.
But that's "if the race were held this week." What nonsense. Why put that kind of poll on Page 1, Editor Marty Gottlieb?
This is another piece that makes Stile sound as if he gave up journalism in favor of going on the governor's payroll.
The headline is equally ridiculous:
Christie's
coattails
a concern
for Dems
It should probably read:
Christie's
fat ass
a concern
for GOP
Because when the Democrats get through exposing the GOP bully's cuts in aid for women's health programs, school meals for low-income children, poor cities and unionized workers, his fat ass will come to symbolize his more-for-me, less-for-you policies.
Let's not forget all of Christie's cronies on the payroll at the Port Authority, which slammed commuters with a 50% toll hike last year.
Guess how much Christie weighs
Guess how much Christie weighs
Mass hysteria
Page 1 today continues The Record's unprecedented attention to mass transit after a decade or more of car-concentric coverage by the Road Warrior and other transportation reporters (PATH repairs, A-1).
But the post-Superstorm Sandy coverage is in keeping with the editors' policy of highlighting mass transit only when something goes wrong, while ignoring paralyzing rush-hour traffic congestion.
Yup, it's still segregated
At the bottom of Page 1 today, a news story makes rare mention of Englewood's "still-segregated" school district -- an imbalance head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and Deputy Assignment Editor and former Englewood reporter Dan Sforza have been hiding for years.
On the Local front, the Road Warrior sleepwalks through another column based entirely on e-mails from readers (L-1).
Protecting cops
Prosecutor John L. Molinelli and officials from Leonia and Palisades Park are walking in lockstep by refusing to identify the three white police officers who on Sunday shot dead Rickey McFadden, 47, a black robbery suspect (L-1).
What do they have to hide?
Has The Record learned anything from covering the fatal police shooting of Malik Williams, 19, of Garfield in December 2011 -- another case where Molinelli kept a tight lid on information, including the cops' identity?
Maybe, Sykes and Sforza should send reporters out to talk to residents, other cops, town officials -- anyone who might know the names of the cops who killed McFadden in Leonia, and print the names.
That's what newspapers usually do when officials are trying to hide something. Of course, that's not what The Record does, but maybe it's time for Sykes and Sforza to stop waiting for the official news release.
The only Hackensack news recently has been about residents flooded out of their apartments by Sandy, and today, no city news appears in the paper.
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