Image via WikipediaThe suicide of a state trooper and a $20 billion BP fund for victims earn only a few paragraphs each on Page 1 of The Record of Woodland Park today, but most of the page is devoted to maybe, could-be, wannabe stories the desperate editors are trying to pass off as local news.
Do North Jersey residents really care if the borough of Teterboro is carved up? All this coverage for a trial balloon? What residents are really dying to know is why the newspaper hasn't written anything about the tremendous quality-of-life impact the small airport has on them every day?
Are the Borgs among the fat cats whose behinds are pampered in noisy business jets, as an anonymous commentator has reported? Those planes seem to scrape rooftops in Hackensack, Teaneck, Maywood and other towns, depriving residents of the enjoyment of their back yards and high-rise balconies.
If so, that might explain why editors such as Frank Scandale, Deirdre Sykes and others have avoided the noise story for so many years. Or is former Publisher Malcolm A. Borg's long-time support for an aviation museum at the airport the reason the charter jet companies get so much promotional coverage in Business?
Of course, when you have lazy transportation reporters like Tom Davis and Assignment Editor Dan Sforza, who as a transportation reporter wrote about "highways of the future," you'll never get hard-hitting reporting about the airport or anything else. What you do get is Davis' speculative, A-1 story today on the possible construction of a Hudson River rail tunnel for Amtrak "within 20 years." Twenty years!
Davis, Sforza, Road Warrior John Cichowski and other lazy staffers refuse to look at the quality of the mass transit commuters have to contend with now, such as the creaking, decades-old local buses NJ Transit still uses in Bergen and Passaic counties. It might be that the riders, largely working class blacks and Hispanics who can't afford cars, are easy to ignore for the newspaper's overwhelmingly white newsroom staff.
Eager to deny President Obama a victory, an editorial on A-22 minimizes his Oval Office address, and blames him for not stopping the BP oil leak. As bad as the gushing oil is, it's ridiculous to compare the disaster to World War II, but Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin desperately needs exaggeration to make his point.
With no substantial Hackensack or Teaneck news to work with -- and the speculative Teterboro story all over A-1 -- all the editors have for the Local front today is police and court news. There's not even a word from Monsy Alvarado, the Hackensack reporter, on the proposed city budget and tax hike.
Englewood reporter Giovanna Fabiano turns out a short piece on the Mackay Park ice rink -- the first story about the city since the end of May. We welcome back this bull dog of news.
In Better Living, it is no-food-news Thursday.
(Photo: President Obama in the White House Oval Office)
Did someone say World War 2?
ReplyDelete"What residents are really dying to know is why the newspaper hasn't written anything about the tremendous quality-of-life impact the small airport has on them every day? "
ReplyDeleteBecause if you move to an area that is near an already established airport, you should have the brains to figure out that there's going to be consequences. Enough crying about the airport. If you don't like it, move.
Drop dead, will you. I am nowhere near an airport, and the seller conveniently didn't mention the house is under the flight path of Teterboro and Newark airports. But forget about my complaints, the entire city of Hackensack, parts of Teaneck and many other towns are affected by the unrelentless aircraft noise from all those fat cats who ruined our economy. Plus, commercial airlines are negatively impacted by every single passenger in a private jet who doesn't want to rub shoulders with common folk. So just shut up. All of us aren't going to move.
ReplyDeleteShould have done your research then before you bought it. It's probably easier to just start up a blog though, after the fact, and cry like a bitch every time a plane flies overhead. The airport was there long before you showed up and it will be here long after we're all gone.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like a moron. My blog is about The Record's decline, not Teterboro Airport, and it was started more than two years after I moved in. I'll soon be announcing my campaign for public office on a platform of closing the airport. Can I count on your support?
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