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Today and Monday, The Record catches up on Hurricane Sandy news with two front-page stories.
Today, we read about Paterson firefighters helping out in Keansburg, and on Monday, we learned about the plight of Hackensack residents who had to run for their lives from flood waters.
The A-1 Hackensack story recalls the experience of residents in Little Ferry and Moonachie, so readers are wondering why they are just seeing it now, three weeks after Sandy hit New Jersey on Oct. 29.
Some readers get the impression head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza are playing out the leashes on reporters.
Or, maybe, because the flooded-out residents in Hackensack are black, they had to wait for Sykes and Sforza to pay attention to them.
Loud snoring
Page 1 today and Monday also carry stories about the Rutgers University football team under headlines that are better than sleeping pills.
If the headline wasn't enough to put readers to sleep on Monday, the first sentence of Tara Sullivan's sports column did the trick:
"The Rutgers football narrative dates t0 1869 ...."
Who the F has time to read about nearly 150 years of history, let alone one involving jock itch, ass-slapping and homophobia.
Little local news
Today's and Monday's Local sections have no Hackensack news, but today, the editors found room for a photo of a hole in a wall that was made by a driver who thought a Clifton pharmacy had a drive-through (L-6).
On today's Local front, Port Authority police claim to have saved a man who was trying to jump off the George Washington Bridge on Monday.
In truth, the man had been bankrupted by Hudson River tolls, and couldn't find a seat on a bus or train during the rush hour (L-1).
Christie is a loser
This past Friday, The Record reported without fanfare the state lost 11,700 jobs in October, the biggest one-month decline since June 2009, before Governor Christie took office.
It's more evidence that, as with so much Christie says and does, the so-called Jersey Comeback was little more than great public relations, aided and abetted by The Record and other media.
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