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By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
BORING!!!!!
Despite all his accomplishments at The New York Times, Editor Martin Gottlieb continues to bore readers of The Record of Woodland Park.
I can't imagine a duller front page for a Sunday edition than the one I'm looking at today.
Not one, but two tedious columns. A news story about a U.S. senator I never heard of, a Republican named Corker. And a story on a Teaneck doctor who "interviews pilots about their health."
Corruption
If readers bother plowing through the lead Page 1 column on former Bergen County Democratic chief Joseph Ferriero and U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, they will search in vain for an opinion from the burned-out reporter who has been churning out this kind of crap since 1988 (A-1).
Gottlieb must think all you have to do to have a column is add a dated thumbnail photo of Mike Kelly's shit-eating grin.
But readers look to Kelly for an opinion about the corrupt campaign-finance system and whether he believes greed led Ferriero and Menendez to violate the public trust. (See editorial on O-2 today.)
You won't find any opinions in his overlong column, just a rewrite of all that has appeared so far on the corruption charges against the two men and the "profound questions" they raise.
Local news
At least today's Local section actually found municipal news to report:
Three stories about Englewood -- two by a weekly reporter -- but only one each from Teaneck and Hackensack.
Hackensack Police Director Mike Mordaga told Staff Writer Todd South a police captain filed a lawsuit only after he was passed over for a promotion to top commander (L-1).
Commenting on the suit by Capt. Thomas Salcedo, Mordaga says "he's broken no laws and that the department has followed all rules and guidelines."
Mordaga also said Salcedo was named in several lawsuits filed by police officers who were under his command, and all were settled by the city.
Trucks, litter
Road Warrior John Cichowski once again explores the irrelevant with today's column on highway litter (L-1).
Most drivers are slobs. What can you do?
His previous column was on tractor-trailers that used residential streets. Wow!
Hey, Cichowski, there are way too many cars clogging our streets and highways.
You should be writing about the sorry state of mass transit and other commuting topics, but you're too lazy for that, and your editors are too stupid to notice.
Healthy eating
John Petrick was a feature writer in the old Hackensack newsroom who got on somebody's shit list and was exiled to cover the Passaic County Courthouse in Paterson.
He worked there for several years, and did a terrific job covering trials and indictments in the busy courthouse.
Now, he's back writing features. Today, he has finally awakened to the trend of people trying to eat healthy when they go out to restaurants (BL-1).
But Petrick doesn't explain why Elisa Ung, the paper's chief restaurant critic, is always making a pig of herself, gorging on enormous cuts of questionable beef and artery clogging desserts.
As for Ung, her column today again takes the focus off of restaurants serving low-quality food at high prices, such as those steakhouses she loves (BL-1).
Sadly, the "retail revolution" reported on today's Business section cover has nothing to do with the return of real customer service (B-1).
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