Image by simminch via FlickrStaff writers have two compelling stories about North Jersey residents to relate on the front page of The Record of Woodland Park today, but the rest of the paper is really thin and devoid of any meaningful local news.
The two, long Page 1 pieces report the rescue of a Teaneck woman from the rubble of a hotel in Haiti on Thursday (photo), two days after the quake, and the death of a Westwood soldier Afghanistan.
There is no explanation why the Teaneck story wasn't in the paper yesterday, a day after the rescue. The Westwood story "buries" the lead paragraph: "Westwood's heart was broken ...."
There was so little municipal news available yesterday, Deirdre "Laughs A Lot" Sykes and the other lazy, desperate and incompetent editors had to put a story on a hospital team leaving for Haiti on the front of the Local section, instead of in the A-section, where the rest of the quake news appears.
The rest of the section has "filler," but no stories about Hackensack, Englewood, Teaneck or any of the other premier towns in Bergen County.
In Better Living, Food Editor Bill Pitcher puts on his recipe-editor's hat to give us a trio of preparations for marshmallows, calling them one of "the season's prime ingredients." It's part of the food editor's ongoing effort to aid the obesity epidemic in North Jersey. Where is his editor, Barbara Jaeger, out to lunch?
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Marshmallows have no fat and can be part of a balanced diet.
ReplyDeleteBut they contain sugar, and the recipes call for more sugar, butter and chocolate (one recipe adds TWO CUPS of sugar). They certainly are not part of a balanced diet. Good try.
ReplyDeleteI know bitching about the Record is what your site is supposed to be all about, but you really went waay too far today when you dissed those two great stories on the front page....you seem reasonably intelligent but obviously are too blind to recognize what's really good....there was nothing wrong with the lead of the Westwood story...it was professionally done as was the one about the Teaneck woman...and don't forget the great picture
ReplyDeleteI think my comments about the front-page stories were positive, but the Westwood story could have been better. The copy editor who wrote the headline recognized the town's heart being broken was the way to go, not the complicated introduction the story has now.
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