Coverage of Sandy is annoying

The Record has become a shadow of its former self since it abandoned Hackensack.

"DIGGING OUT FROM SANDY"

The Record has been using that phrase over Page 1 and Local front headlines, but is it accurate?

We'd have to dig out after a snowstorm or mudslide, but not a hurricane that brought Sandy's flooding and ferocious winds.

Today's front page carries two stories below the fold that seem to be reporting the same long lines and long waits.

Is this the best we can expect from the local news assignment desk run by Editors Deirdre Sykes and Dan Sforza?

Where is Editor Marty Gottlieb?

Look at the idiotic column on the Local front today about the 1973 Arab oil embargo accompanied by a L-1 photo of people on foot, not a line of cars.

Shouldn't the Road Warrior be reporting on the paralysis of mass transit and residents' experience trying to commute to work?

So his column is the third story today on long lines.

Shouldn't Page 1 tell readers why the restoration of power is taking so long?

Among hundreds of column inches in today's paper, only two paragraphs on A-8 discuss PSE&G's efforts to restore power to 882,000 without it as of Wednesday night.

Now our local daily newspaper is piling on the disappointing performance of Public Service Electric and Gas Co.