Image via WikipediaThe desperate editors couldn't run the photo on Page L-3 any bigger -- it's as wide as it can get, as wide as the page. Let down by the lazy assignment and news staff under Deirdre "Mother Hen" Sykes for yet another day, the layout editors had no news for that page today, and plugged the hole with a photo of people fishing and looking as bored as readers of The Record of Woodland Park.
Who can blame them? No news of Hackensack, Englewood, Teaneck and other important towns appears in Local today. Local? Why not call it Yokels, which is how Editor Frank "Castrato" Scandale regards residents of key communities. Bears in West Milford get better coverage than Hackensack, where the paper was founded in 1895 and where it prospered for more than 110 years.
On Page 1, the paper reports that failing students in some districts now have to pay for summer school. Isn't that good news for taxpayers? But is it really A-1 news?
The plan to break up Teterboro -- a plan few thought would be successful -- is on hold, the lead story on the front page discloses. Why did the paper write endlessly about the politics of the proposal, but not bother to report on Teterboro Airport's impact on the quality of life of tens of thousands in Hackensack, Maywood and other towns annoyed by noisy aircraft filled with such fat cats as the Borgs?
For cutting-edge food coverage from Better Living, see the newest junk food on F-1. The copy editor calls a doughnut cheeseburger part of a "culinary renaissance." "Artery-clogging renaissance" would be more accurate. A reader-friendly story would report on what healthy options are available at the fair.
(Illustration: Teterboro Airport. Only two runways, but endless noise.)
Funny sign in the photo on A1: "Credet Cards." To pay for remedial school.
ReplyDeleteyou are right. good story wouldve been healthy eating options if going to the fair
ReplyDeleteWhat else can you expect when you have a dysfunctional eater as food editor? He's a prisoner of his eating obsessions.
ReplyDeleteAww, c'mon now, who goes to a state fair to eat healthy? "Are the sausages in those sausage and pepper sandwiches made with byproducts from grass-fed cattle?" "Is that corn dog made from an organic dog?" "Is that deep fried dough cooked in transfat-free oil?" "Is that cotton candy made with free-trade cotton?" Why, if a certain newspaper ever tackled the obesity epidemic, a certain 300-pound former publisher would probably cancel his subscription.
ReplyDeleteI've been to a lot of fairs. I usually bring my own salad. Just kidding. Over the years, I've eaten barbecue, fresh corn (hold the butter) and seltzer if I can get it. All that other junk doesn't have any appeal to me. As for that 300-pound former publisher, canceling his subscription would be the first tangible thing he could do since his spoiled brat of a son took over in 2006 and set the paper on its disastrous course.
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