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| Editor Marty Gottlieb of The Record has been focusing a lot of attention on preliminary 9/11 hearings in Cuba, not the many problems facing residents who live in North Jersey. |
Editor Marty Gottlieb gives us another disappointing Sunday edition today, leading Page 1 of The Record with more on a Wayne couple's reaction to 9/11 hearings in Cuba.
The main headline says "trial," but the text reports they were "preliminary hearings." Readers remain alienated and confused.
In keeping with the media's focus on trying to predict the future, Washington Correspondent Herb Jackson does his best in a so-called ANALYSIS to guess what tax rates will be on Jan. 1.
Ultimately, the densely written, eye-glazing story produces a lot of heat, but not much light.
The only words in the story you can bank on appear in the graphic on A-8: "If Congress does nothing ..."
The vast majority of readers stare at the other three elements on Page 1 and mutter, What does that have to do with me?
Too little, too late
Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes leads her Local news sections with reports on the freeholder races in Bergen and Passaic counties, but the photos and profiles come too late for 22,000 voters who received and returned mail-in ballots (L-1).
The freeholder stories would have run sooner, if the Local section didn't waste the space on all those photos showing rollover accidents on North Jersey roads and highways or downed utility poles.
Ignoring reality
Today's Road Warrior column ignores the region's traffic and mass-transit crises to answer more complaining e-mails from drivers upset with the MVC (L-1).
Friday's Road Warrior column also was based on reader e-mails, and had something to do with road signs and E-ZPass, though I just scanned it.
Donut-hole news
New Milford Police Chief Frank Papapietro reports another luring attempt, this one at the Dunkin' Donuts on River Road, a police substation (L-1).
The drought on Hackensack municipal news continues today.
Dishing the dirt
Today's Better Living cover is dominated by The Corner Table column, which is supposed to deal with issues facing restaurant goers in North Jersey (BL-1).
Instead, Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung writes about three rich guys who eat out a lot and tweet about it. Who cares?
Where is Mike Kelly?
On the Opinion front, readers are told, "Record Columnist Mike Kelly is away from the office on a short leave."
That's about as hard to comprehend as one of Kelly's columns.
Did he get hit by a car? Is he ill? Or maybe he's on vacation or "investigating" something.
One thing is for sure. Few readers miss him.
