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| Super cars escorted by the state police aren't needed to make driving the Garden State Parkway or N.J. Turnpike a challenge, as any weekday commute will show. |
Was Production Editor Liz Houlton out shopping for another schmata when the news copy editors she supervises wrote the main headline on Page 1 of The Record today?
Developers looking
for a 'wow' effect
Nothing could be further from the truth, as readers learn if they bother to read to the continuation page (A-6).
Major misquote
The word 'wow" was never used by a developer to describe the Western development, which was unveiled at a public meeting on Monday night -- four weeks after the Fort Lee Planning Board signed off on the Eastern phase and the construction of Bergen County's tallest buildings.
In fact, a Planning Board member said, "Personally ... this presentation didn't wow me." Later, Mayor Marc Sokolich said, "We're looking ... for a bit of 'wow' effect."
All I can say is, Wow. Who screwed up? And did Houlton again sacrifice accuracy to go off in search of another cheap, raggedy dress?
Where was Editor Marty Gottlieb, who has published a number of embarrassing corrections of screw-ups by Houlton and head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes (see A-2 today)?
Fort Lee eyesore
The Record has been covering the proposal for vacant land near the George Washington Bridge as if it was the building of the Pyramids, instead of yet another plan to heal a four-decades-old eyesore.
Some residents are upset about the potential impact on schools and roads of all those new residents and cars.
So, maybe the developer should tear down some of the borough's older high-rises and move those residents into the new 47-story towers and other residential spaces -- guaranteeing a huge boost in property taxes, but no change in population.
Speeding commuters
The Record and other media continue to focus on the state police-escorted caravan of super cars that raced down the Garden State Parkway to Atlantic City on March 30 (A-1).
But no reporter is asking Governor Christie why there is so little enforcement of traffic laws during the rush hour, when ordinary cars and SUVs travel 20 m.p.h. or more over the speed limit, tailgate and weave in and out of traffic -- all because those drivers are late for work.
Free lunch in Vegas
Let's hope Christie doesn't see the story on A-8 today about the Heart Attack Grill, a restaurant in Las Vegas that offers free meals to people weighing more than 350 pounds.
The Record has been running stories lately about Christie working on his national image, including Monday's A-1 report on the GOP bully's plan to cut income taxes, as Republican Christie Whitman did in 1994 with disastrous results.
Christie's critics can't wait for him to run for national office. The sooner he does that, the sooner the rest of us can start rebuilding the middle class way of life in New Jersey.
Front-page hype
Why is all of Christie's hype and exaggeration reported in Page 1 stories and the reality left for the Editorial Page cartoon (A-10 today)?
On Sykes' Local front today, a gee-whiz, non-fatal accident photo is used as filler (L-1).
The "Welcome to Hackensack" sign in the background of the photo -- and the lack of Hackensack news -- clearly show that Sykes has ordered her staff to stay out of the county seat.
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