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| In Hackensack, first-quarter property taxes are due on Tuesday, and the city provides a drop box under a window in police headquarters. |
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
Page 1 and just about every other page of The Record screams, "No news today."
The Closter murder-suicide is back on the front page, even though the only new element is that autopsies determined who killed whom on Friday night (A-1).
And Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli shared the information on Twitter, according to the second paragraph.
Five staffers worked on the story of Michael A. Tabacchi, 27, who strangled and stabbed his wife, Iran Pars Tabacchi, 41, before fatally stabbing himself in the chest.
The Sunday staff couldn't do much better than repeating information from the story on Sunday's front page, and interviewing neighbors, reporting this gem from a man who lived across the street:
"They always walked their dog up and down the street and would say hi" (A-7).
The reporters were so desperate for something new, one contributed this:
"On Sunday, the area around the ... home was sleepy and quiet, with no evidence of the violence that had occurred just two days before" (A-7).
What did this reporter expect, blood staining the snow or one of the toys belonging to the 15-month-old boy the couple adored and who was found unharmed?
Road litter
Also on Page 1 today is another Road Warrior column about people who live feet away from the roar of traffic on Route 17 in Waldwick.
The first paragraph noted Allyson Cobin "hung a sign on her lawn warning speeders to "Slow Down, Drive Safe, Value Life."
Then, Staff Writer John Cichowski has breaking news for readers: A car "skidded off the highway, broke through the sign and smashed through her picket fence" late last month (A-1).
Nowhere does Cichowski explain why anyone in their right mind would buy a house next to the noisy highway or continue to live there year after year.
This is pretty common today. The Jersey Journal is the same as well. The Reporters are unable to even ask questions. I saw this at a Press Conference in Hoboken a few years back featuring Senator Bob Menendez. The Jersey Journal Reporter didn't even ask a question! Generally today's mainstream media (The Record), is just an echo chamber for the State authorities. Anyone who's half awake knows there's been a string of bizarre, unsolved homicides in Bergen over the last few years. The Reporters at the Record are even unable to see the glaring similarities between them. Makes you wonder if it is a "good thing" that newspapers are going the way of the Dinosaur?
ReplyDeleteThanks. You might be right. Newspapers may be approaching obsolescence.
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