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| The Record's news copy desk apparently is unaware that Dwight Morrow High School, above, was named after a famous person whose first name was Dwight and whose last name was Morrow. A bad photo caption hyphenates the name. |
Older readers scrambled to find their magnifying glasses in order to see the small objects in the sky in today's Page 1 photo.
The Record's editors and the editors at The New York Times ran a nearly identical front-page photo today of the space shuttle Enterprise soaring over the Manhattan skyline on the back of a 747.
Wowee! Gee-whiz. Would you get a load of ... what?
A second photo on A-10 appears to show the Statue of Liberty giving the finger to the 747 pilot.
A second photo on A-10 appears to show the Statue of Liberty giving the finger to the 747 pilot.
As the A-1 photo demonstrates, Editor Marty Gottlieb, who spent many years at The Times, didn't fall far from the tree.
Chris who?
Then, Gottlieb squandered the A-1 lead position on Chris Olsen, the moron who refused to suspend Wayne high school players arrested on aggravated assault charges.
Does anybody care what happens to Olsen?
Unbearable
Another gee-whiz photo on A-1 -- of a lighter-than-air bear -- comes all the way from Boulder, Colo., making readers think Denver Post alum Francis "Frank" Scandale didn't get shit-canned as editor last year.
Bridge to big profits
On the front of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' Local section, a story and photo updates the rebuilding of the Court Street Bridge between Hackensack and Bogota.
The story makes no mention that completion of the project in May is the final piece needed to make North Jersey Media Group's 20 acres on River Street attractive to such big-box retailers as Wal-Mart.
The bridge would provide a second access route to and from major highways.
More bad errors
Production Editor Liz Houlton's error-prone news copy desk has been having a field day (see correction on A-2).
On L-2, a photo caption incorrectly hyphenates Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood.
And a much bigger photo on L-3 -- apparently needed to fill space that would normally be taken up by local news -- also carries an incorrect caption.
There is no "Main Street" in Leonia, but the main street is Broad Avenue.
Hackensack news is missing in inaction again today.
Frank Scandale made out nicely for himself, thankyouverymuch.
ReplyDeleteA much better job than editor of The Record.
Good day, sir.
According to Francis Scandale's LinkedIn page, he is VP of print production at Digital First Media.
ReplyDeleteThat's a "much better job" than editor of The Record?
Either, you are kidding or you know nothing about the media.
Good day to you, moron.
He's a VP for the company that runs the Denver Post, Mercury News and More than 100 other papers with a million in circulation.
ReplyDeleteVP of production means he is a glorified copy editor.
ReplyDeleteHe's not the VP for the paper you idiot, he's the VP for the company that owns the paper.
ReplyDeleteBeing a VP for a company that runs one paper is different from being a VP for a company that runs hundreds.
I know you won't publish this, but at least for your own information, jesus, get it right.
I never said he was VP of the paper. I guess you can't read. We know you can't write.
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