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| Just before 3 on Monday afternoon, the Manhattan entrance to the Holland Tunnel was jammed with drivers returning to New Jersey. |
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
Leave it to reporter John Cichowski to write an entire Page 1 column in The Record on Sunday, and never answer the real question on the minds of readers.
Why would anyone who doesn't have a screw or two loose buy a home next to Route 17 south -- where a tractor-trailer went out of control and crushed an unmarked Waldwick cruiser at a radar checkpoint, killing the 32-year-old officer inside?
The constant noise, years of breathing poisoned air and the tension of hearing and seeing all those crashes clearly have taken their toll on residents.
Cichowski, the burned-out Road Warrior, actually quotes a resident who claims cars turn off Route 17 onto their street at 60 mph, a physical impossibility.
He also coins a new phrase, "crash magnetism."
Readers wish that his column attracted facts in the same way the Waldwick stretch of Route 17 supposedly is a magnet for crashes.
Mr Sasson can you explain briefly how newspapers buy stories from AP. And do newspapers like the Record,Star Ledger,and The Post also sell stories to the AP.
ReplyDeleteHow much are stories worth? Thank You.
The Associated Press is entitled to use and disseminate anything The Record's reporters write, but outside of that I don't know the financial arrangements, and whether North Jersey Media Group pays a monthly fee for AP stories from New Jersey, around the nation and around the world.
DeleteSince the Vietnam War, the AP and other wire services have been known for their body count journalism that keeps up with the number of dead without shedding light on complicated issues such as religious and ethnic conflict.