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| The Local news section today is dominated by a story about war criminal Joseph Kony. |
Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her tireless minions deliver another fun-filled but ultimately disappointing Local section in The Record today.
Rep. Steve Rothman, D-Englewood, met with the paper's unnamed Editorial Board, so that guaranteed him the lead position on L-1 -- just above a story about war criminal Joseph Kony.
The Kony story doesn't try to explain how the brutal Ugandan war lord has escaped capture since he was indicted for war crimes in 2005.
There's news for illegal immigrants, too, in the guilty pleas of two clerks who sold black-market driver's licenses (L-1).
Another photo-op
Sykes exploits another elderly driver's accident for a photo-op on L-3, blown up to fill the space of local news her desk failed to generate.
A story that should have been on L-1 is pushed back to L-3 to lessen the embarrassment for the Rev. James F. Reilly, who is in critical condition with burns he suffered in a fire early Saturday.
Reilly apparently fell asleep while smoking in the rectory of a Palisades Park church.
Hackensack news? Check back next year.
Tone deaf
On Page 1, Staff Writer Jim Beckerman reports "it's hard for customers to put their feelings about the closing of Ronnie I's Clifton Music into words."
Judging from the poorly written and edited story, Beckerman also had trouble putting his reporting "into words."
Beckerman lists doo-wop and rock-and-roll radio shows, but omits WBGO-FM's "Rhythm Revue" and Bob Porter's "Saturday Morning Function."
