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| Two-thirds of registered voters stayed home on Tuesday, according to some estimates, so why are the media giving so much attention to Republican demands? |
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
Really low voter turnout and the failure of Democratic candidates to embrace President Obama's accomplishments are the untold story of Tuesday's election.
The Republicans won't regain control of the U.S. Senate until January, but they already are acting as if they are running the country, aided and abetted by The Record and other media (A-4).
"To all who didn't vote, I say shame on you for not taking advantage of a freedom we are blessed to have," Robert Daniello of Ridgefield Park said in a letter to the editor today (A-13).
"Triumph of the Wrong" was the headline on the Op-Ed column of economist Paul Krugman in The New York Times:
"So now is a good time to remember just how wrong the new rulers of Congress [the GOP] have been about, well, everything," Krugman wrote.
The column could just as well be called, "Triumph of Apathy."
Let them eat cake
The big local news today is the approval of the first drive-through Panera Bread restaurant on Route 17 in Paramus, a road that already has enough retail-generated traffic chaos (L-1).
On Friday, Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung was really upset about the desserts at the 2-star Ranchero Cantina in Emerson (BL-19).
The butterscotch syrup on the flan she sampled was too sweet ($6), and the "Chocolate Outrage" was "indeed an outrage" ($7.50).
The poor woman!
ReplyDeleteHi Victor:
Happy Birthday! I'm just catching up with Eye On The Record. Some of your observations leave me rolling on the floor --- Ebola behind the McDonald's sign, the editing errors, and your constant flogging of the Road Warrior. Jersey City is not Hoboken. How does he get away with that ... so many errors and still employed there. So many guys have "enjoyed" decades-long careers at The Record with no real standout performance. I heard about poor Evonne Coutrous who was there nearly 40 years before she died last summer. I read your assessment of the graying Stephen Borg --- and actually looked for the picture to my chagrin. (Why am I even interested in this shit!??) Stephen Borg -- what a schlub. Lotsa money, no class. So much to say -- how's Aaron Elson doing? Just discovered your restaurant blog, a positive outlet for your Journalistic energies (as opposed to negative intensity on the anti-Road Warrior Facebook account and the Eye On TR.) Keep them squirming and twisting in the wind.
The Road Warrior Bloopers Facebook page provides corrected facts, along with supporting sources and Internet links, all of which are beneficial to the safety and knowledge of readers, in response to mistake-ridden Road Warrior columns, which continually present unsafe, illegal, contradictory, and totally misreported information and advice.
DeleteReaders should appreciate these needed corrections.
All of this corrected information is always first presented to the Road Warrior and his editors, who continually ignore making any corrections.
In fact, the very early communications and occasional follow-up efforts have been made in a very constructive objective manner to try to work with the Road Warrior and his editors to try and prevent his mistakes or correct them subsequent to publications. Unfortunately, not only did the Road Warrior and his editors refuse to accept these conciliatory offers, but they went out of their way to make denigrating comments in regards to these offers.
Therefore, the gloves have come off and readers are shown how unprofessional and incompetent the Road Warrior really is based on the corrected facts, which are also supported by referenced sources, which are frequently the exact same source cited by the Road Warrior in his columns, and Internet links.
Readers need to made aware of the very misleading, and many times false presentations in the Road Warrior columns if they want to stay on the right side of the law for themselves and their children drivers, avoid dangerous situations promoted by the Road Warrior to themselves and their children drivers, and not be misled or afraid of grossly exaggerated or false information about road and mass transit transportation.
Readers need to made aware of just how bad the Road Warrior reporting really is when he frequently contradicts himself in the very same column, or reports mistaken information that contradicts what he correctly reported in previous columns.
Readers need to be shown that the Road Warrior's responses in many of his columns to readers, who question the accuracy of what he reported in a previous column, are either very denigrating to the person questioning his reporting, or very misleading or false based on the actual facts.
Readers need to be shocked and angered by the very misleading, and many times false, reports and advice in the Road Warrior columns.
The Road Warrior Bloopers Facebook page never crosses the line in offering information or opinions that are not supported by the facts and referenced sources.
In terms of reporters, the shit often rises to the top at The Record.
DeleteAaron Elson is doing fine, thanks :) up in Connecticut, semi-retired now from the New Britain Herald, and working on a book about the Korean War (see my blog http://semperfipadre.blogspot.com).
ReplyDeleteWhat is "semi-retired"?
DeleteSemi-retired is working one or two days a week, and laying out in the sun the other five or six days ... brrrr ... how did it get 48 degrees out? ... uh oh, now it's raining, maybe I'd better go inside and update my facebook status.
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