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| Compare this comfortable bench for Coach USA commuters at the midtown Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, above, to the spring-loaded implements of torture NJ Transit provides in another part of the terminal, below. |
By Victor E. Sasson
Editor
Picking up The Record's report today on new movies about racial issues in the 1950s and 1960s, readers must be wondering what the editors and Staff Writer Jim Beckerman are smoking (A-1 and BL-1).
They completely ignore the continuing racist backlash to the 2008 election of President Obama and implementation of his Affordable Care Act, which is still under attack by Tea Party crackpots like Steve Lonegan, former pipsqueak mayor of Bogota (A-1 on Friday).
"It's as if America in 2013 was just beginning to address, rather than finally laying to rest, the racial issues that tore the country apart 60 years ago," Beckerman says, ignoring the present in a desperate search for an angle.
What about all of the voter-suppression proposals in North Carolina and other states with a large number of minorities? Don't they count as "racial issues."
News biz films?
Hollywood directors are famous for period pieces that twist the past even as they expose decades-old injustices.
Many readers are wondering when Hollywood is going to make movies about newspapers:
Their greedy publishers, big and small; and their editors and reporters, who will sensationalize and distort anything for a story, such as today's silly promotion of three new films (BL-1).
More screw-ups
Judging by 3 detailed corrections on A-2 today, Production Editor Liz Houlton and her snoring copy editors are unable to perform their main job: keeping errors out of the paper.
Of course, all of the errors -- published and unpublished -- were missed by head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her crack staff, including Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza.
Errors are bad enough, but what about omissions, such as the lack of information on the cause of a one-car accident that killed Erin Quinn, 18, a Wayne woman who was driving to college on Thursday (L-6), according to a death notice on L-5 today.
Forced busing
I'll let NJ Transit investigate a black customer's complaint "that he was racially profiled," but I have to question Alonza Robertson's judgment in taking a bus from Rockland County to Paramus to shop at a Nike outlet on a Sunday, when just everybody else knows all stores are closed (L-1).
For many years, The Record ignored NJ Transit's systematic discrimination against minorities, forcing them to ride decrepit, decades-old local buses, while the agency regularly replaced rolling stock on Manhattans runs.
The writer used the term "alleged" voter suppression. I submit these new efforts to disenfranchise minority voters are not alleged, they are actually occurring in places like PA, FL and as you mentioned NC. Our usually loquacious Governor was curiously silent when the Supreme Court recently struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act. It is now longer Jim Crow, it is becoming James Crow, Esq. to suppress and deny the electorate from voting.
ReplyDeleteIt's deplorable. When you compare Christie to politicians in other states, such as those in neighboring New York, he's a complete disaster.
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