Image via WikipediaGovernor Christie's favorable tax policies toward the rich are already coming back to haunt us, according a few paragraphs on Page 1 of The Record of Woodland Park today. If the governor didn't give the Borgs and other millionaires a huge tax break, he probably would have been able to keep film and television tax credits, and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" would still be filming in North Bergen
As it is, 200 jobs and $55 million in related spending will be lost, said the landlord of the warehouse sound stage used for interior shots. Ouch. Why the full story is on L-7 and not A-1 is a puzzle, unless the former Hackensack daily doesn't want to make Christie look bad.
In fact, the governor looks great in the Page 1 photo today. But didn't any of the journalists covering President Obama's visit to Edison think to ask what he and Christie said to each other at Newark airport? The photo shows the two men with big smiles on their faces. What a tease. The joke is on readers.
There is another problem with the Obama coverage by Staff Writer Hugh Morley, whose story dominates A-1. Morley's lead paragraph begins: "After a sub sandwich lunch with President Obama ..." But TV news reported the president didn't eat lunch at the Tastee Sub Shop, but did order a half-sub to go. Morley doesn't say what kind of sub the president ordered; it was a "Super Sub" (ham and three other cold cuts with cheese).
What's with the pissy editorial on A-18, where Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin or one of his staff fumes at NJ Transit over the cost of making the Ridgewood train station handicap accessible but not doing the same for Hoboken Terminal? There was a major story Tuesday about Ridgewood, but Hoboken wasn't even mentioned in the well-padded construction update. Did Staff Writer Tom Davis miss the real story?
There is no Englewood news in Local today, but Hackensack reporter Monsy Alvarado finally was able to get some comment from the landlord of the Prospect Avenue high-rise where the parking garage collapsed. And head Assignment Editor Deirdre "Mother Hen" Sykes managed to find room for another overturned-vehicle photo. What a great job this veteran editor is doing.
It's hard to tell whether Columnist Kevin DeMarrais is siding with the woman who samples grapes to make sure they aren't sour or ShopRite in Hackensack, where an employee made a sarcastic remark about her (L-8). DeMarrais is careful not to pass judgment on ShopRite produce (it often is tasteless or rots overnight because of improper storage).
Now that Bill Pitcher has decided to leave his $71,000-a-year-job as food editor, shouldn't readers expect local food coverage while he is still around? I guess not. A canned story from another newspaper is on the front of Better Living today. It discusses the history of pepper.
(Photo: Hoboken Terminal)
I don't think he is 'leaving' his job.....it sounds like a different job from what he has so they could eliminate his job and reassign him. I don't know where he's going once his replacement is there. Do you?
ReplyDeleteI don't know, but don't think he would stay on and take direction from a new food editor. Whatever reason the newspaper has for replacing him, he clearly has been a failure as food editor. It's not enough to be a computer whiz and nice guy. In his first job at The Record until 2005 or so, he was a low-level layout editor, drawing lines on paper and then the computer to show where stories, headlines and photos were to go.
ReplyDeleteIf that's all it takes to get hired, does that mean you're not a nice guy and that you can't draw straight lines even with the help of a computer?
ReplyDeleteHuh? The point I was trying to make is that he had no food-editing experience, and it shows in the job he's done as food editor. Even his freelance pieces before he was hired were insubstantial and often focused on Hudson Valley food business, not those in North Jersey.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they just kept him around until a certain lawsuit was over. He has no value to them otherwise. He probably will file a suit of his own because he can't be happy with being moved to another department.
ReplyDeleteThat would be funny, Victor testifying on behalf of Billy Pitcher! Te-hee. Take that, Jennifer!
ReplyDeleteAmusing thought. But I don't think we will see a lawsuit from Bill Pitcher. He is totally non-confrontational. He was visibly uncomfortable when he was called to testify in my lawsuit.
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine why someone might feel uncomfortable in court with Victor Sasson. Imagine the scene. A slimy lawyer, the only one Victor could find, asking him about who know what while Victor sits at the table smirking, probably sucking on fish bones. Free range fish bones of course.
ReplyDeleteTalk about slimy. What about you, hiding behind your Anonymous tag? You're stupid and uninformed, too. Suck on this.
ReplyDeleteDo you live in Fort Lee, moron?
ReplyDeleteEasy does it, Victor. You should take a deep breath and maintain your dignity when replying to such obvious drivel. He or she is just trying to get under your skin, you certainly don't want to let him or her succeed. You've got an excellent blog, respected in the newspaper community, fairly widely read. I wouldn't think you'd want to get into a nanny nanny poo poo schoolyard shouting match. Besides, I highly doubt that your lawyer was slimy, or that you were smirking during your trial. Anonymous was simply baiting you, and you appear to have taken the bait. You might have replied something like: Free range fish bones. Now that's funny. Or better yet: Free range fish bones. Now that's funny, you idiot. As for my own anonymity, I have good reason for hiding behind it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your words of support. They are greatly appreciated. In the future, I'll try to employ the same cool you have exhibited in the face of comments from readers who have crawled out from under a rock.
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