Taking a holiday from The Record

Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Eye on The Record is taking a holiday from three straight days this week of Page 1 coverage of the Rutgers University football team.

I'm taking a holiday from the editors' notion that living successfully or colorfully usually isn't enough:

As today's A-1 demonstrates: You have to save a life to make Page 1.

I'm taking a holiday from the intensely car-centric coverage by the Road Warrior and other reporters that appears to be a payback for all the automobile advertising in the paper.

I'm taking a break from coverage of mass transit that only appears when something goes wrong, such as Hurricane Sandy damage to NJ Transit rolling stock (A-1 on Wednesday).

I'm going on a diet today, swearing off Food Editor Susan Leigh Sherrill, who believes readers aren't getting enough artery-clogging cholesterol or meat and poultry raised on harmful animal antibiotics (Better Living on Wednesday). 

In her Wednesday column on BL-1, Sherrill advises readers with a straight face: "Generously slather the turkey with softened butter."

None of the hot lines she lists include cardiac-surgery units at local hospitals.

Finally, I'm taking a holiday from Deirdre Sykes and Dan Sforza, local-news editors who have substituted Law & Order news for municipal news, including the total neglect of Hackensack and other communities (See today's Local section).

See previous post 

on Road Warrior errors