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| At the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, the body language is clear from people lining up for NJ Transit's No.165 bus to Hackensack and Westwood at mid-afternoon on Monday. Only an eldery woman was desperate enough to sit in one of the four folding "seats," below. |
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| These seats are listed as implements of torture under the Geneva Convention. |
By Victor E. Sasson
Editor
Feeling inadequate, Editor Marty Gottlieb of The Record and sports Columnist Bob Klapisch are going ga-ga over the turmoil in the life of multimillionaire athlete Alex Rodriguez (Page 1 and A-6).
Readers, however, are gagging on all of this coverage of Rodriguez, who was given the sexually suggestive monicker of "A-Rod" by copy editors with short-count headlines to write -- not because of his alleged prowess in the bedroom.
More boring politics
The rest of the front page today is wasted on politics, including another futile bid for higher office by arch-conservative Republican Steve Lonegan, former mayor of Bogota (A-1 and A-4).
Does anybody believe the exaggerated story on A-3 that Chris Christie, our piggish governor, "would fall only 4 points short of Democrat Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical presidential contest" in 2016?
The Record and other media continue to report polls as gospel -- even after President Obama trounced Mitt Romney last November in what was reported ad nauseum as a close race.
More bad mistakes
On the front of Local today, the funeral of an 8-month-old girl killed by a falling light pole reminds readers of all of the errors in the Sunday Road Warrior column about penalties for jitney drivers who talk on cellphones.
Unfortunately, the errors and omissions are repeated in today's editorial calling for a crackdown on those drivers (A-8).
Staff Writer John Cichowski (aka Road Warrior) completely overlooked "jail time of up to 10 years and fines up to $150,000 based on a 2012 law
for cellphone violations, when any drivers are involved in accidents
where there is a death or injury," according to a concerned reader.
Homicide charge
In fact, he didn't even mention that the distracted jitney driver who knocked down the pole, killing the North Bergen girl in her stroller, was charged with vehicular homicide under that law.
Cichowski also left out relevant information when citing "a federal law that imposes fines as high as $2,750 if commercial drivers use hand-held
devices in non-emergency situations during interstate travel."
Road Warrior failed to mention the federal law also disqualifies drivers for up to 120 days for multiple violations within a 3-year period.
Cichowski also overlooked the maximum fine of $250 under New Jersey motor vehicle law for use of hand-held
devices in non-emergency situations, citing only a $100 fine for all drivers.
To read the full e-mail to management and editors, click on this link to the Facebook page for Road Warrior Bloopers:
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Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizons of their minds, To keep them in control was not difficult- George Orwell.
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