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| Image via Wikipedia On Sunday, freelancer Mark Greenbaum focused on the ages of Reps. Bill Pascrell Jr., above, and Steve Rothman, but said the latter is 7 years younger than he is. The Opinion editors completely missed the error. |
You've heard of movies that go straight to video. In my house, The Record's Sports section goes straight to recycling, though I can't avoid all the sports blather that lands on Page 1.
Glancing at today's Sports front, I noticed the missing comma after "Victor" in the main headline, "To Victor go the spoils."
The headline runs over one of those relentlessly sunny columns about Victor Cruz of the Giants, a Paterson native who has become a role model for children trying to escape poverty.
Cruz caught the only Giants touchdown pass at the Super Bowl on Sunday, and showed with his celebratory salsa moves that he had more rhythm than anyone else on the field.
On Cruz control
But at the gym this morning, a friend complained that today's column by Staff Writer Art Stapleton never explains why Cruz isn't married to the mother of his infant daughter.
My friend believes the editors deliberately glossed over that issue.
The majority of readers don't know Cruz from beans, but with today's front page, Editor Martin Gottlieb keeps shoving Giants coverage down their throats, as he likely will do on Wednesday with stories on the parade in Manhattan.
Age discrimination
On A-2, an embarrassing correction shows the editor of a piece on Sunday's Opinion front missed catching a major error by freelance writer Mark Greenbaum on the age of Rep. Steve Rothman, who is 59 years old, not 52. Rothman was born in 1952.
The error also undermines one of Greenbaum's arguments for why Rothman has a political edge over his fellow Democrat in the 9th Congressional District race, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr.:
"Rothman's age bestows on him time to rise, while Pascrell has no shot of chairing a full committee."
Hot-air editor
The paper's intense focus on the Super Bowl has been evident in the past couple of weeks, and readers haven't even had a good Local section to turn to.
The major element on the Local front today is a non-fatal car fire on Route 17 in Rochelle Park.
After publishing a non-story on possible solar-panel regulation in Hackensack on Monday, head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes returns to journalism as usual: no Hackensack news, and no news from many other towns.
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