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| Governor Christie in a moment that cements his reputation as the GOP bully. |
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
The Record's lead story today -- how New Jersey lost out on tens of millions in federal disaster aid -- only rubs salt in the wounds of residents who have been seduced and abandoned by their governor.
Yet, Editor Martin Gottlieb again gives Columnist Charles Stile front-page play to argue that campaigning in New Hampshire is more important to Christie's future than coming home to help the state weather a big snowstorm. (A-1 and A-6).
If Stile, the paper's chief Christie apologist, doesn't make you hurl, take a look at the idiotic headline:
Christie shelters in place
Readers still are waiting for The Record to call for the impeachment of a governor who time and again has put his selfish ambitions above the welfare of residents.
Or, at least demand that Christie resign, give up his million-dollar state police protection and move to New Hampshire as he pursues his doomed bid for the GOP presidential nomination.
Local news?
Bergen County readers continue to get a good spanking from local Assignment Editors Deirdre Sykes and Dan Sforza, who are in charge of the paper's thin local-news section.
Four of the five stories on their Local front today are from Passaic County (L-1).
Three Paterson stories appear on L-2 and L-3, and Pompton Lakes police news can be found on L-5.
The inside pages also carry plenty of crime and court news, including a long, flattering story on the Bergen County Police Academy (L-3).
Hackensack?
Hackensack?
There is no municipal news from Hackensack, as has been the case for weeks.
And school board stories from Clifton (L-1), Elmwood Park and Saddle River (L-6) only remind Hackensack residents they haven't seen a story on their profligate school trustees for more than, what, a year or is it two?
And school board stories from Clifton (L-1), Elmwood Park and Saddle River (L-6) only remind Hackensack residents they haven't seen a story on their profligate school trustees for more than, what, a year or is it two?
You're mistaken if you think care is taken in the writing and editing of stories, as shown by a mangled sentence in the police academy story referring to Bergen County Corrections Officer Alex Herrera:
"Corrections officers, as he's been since 2005, are limited to posts at the jail and the academy" (L-3).
Ignoring readers
It isn't news that Elisa Ung, the paper's chief restaurant critic, ignores the dietary restrictions of most of her readers, whether they are on a low-carb, low-fat or low-cholesterol diet or are watching their intake of sugar and other sweets.
Today, she recklessly awards 3 out of 4 stars to Porto by Antonio, a North Bergen restaurant that not only charges up to $23 for a 12-inch pizza, but actually fries the dough of another pie (BL-12).
Ung raves the fried pie is "less heavy" and "more subtly rich" than other versions she has tried.
