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| The 47-story luxury residential tower at the center of Fort Lee's Hudson Lights project, as seen from the parking lot of a small downtown shopping center. The building, dubbed "The Modern," is shaped like a tombstone, and I can see it from the car while driving on Euclid Avenue in Hackensack, now that the trees have lost their leaves. |
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
The Record's front page today is another lame effort that holds hardly any relevance for residents of North Jersey.
A third international trip for Governor Christie, who is flying thousands of mile to London for takeout fish and chips, has readers wondering how New Jersey's ailing economy benefited from his previous junkets to Mexico and Canada (A-1).
At least Editor Marty Gottlieb finally is running a Page 1 story on the group bankrolling the GOP bully's foreign trips:
Choose New Jersey has the backing of the "largest public utilities, labor unions, law firms and contractors -- some that have received multi-million contracts and tax breaks from the state," a front-page story reports in an awkwardly worded, poorly edited first paragraph (A-1).
For one thing, I don't think the labor unions have received any of those benefits.
Today's largely favorable Christie coverage shows how Gottlieb, Columnist Charles Stile and other staffers have been sitting on the edge of their seats for at least two years, promoting the governor's White House dreams.
On Saturday's front page, Stile's boring political column discussed how the pathetic Mitt Romney's decision not to run for a third time in 2016 might affect Christie.
Media vultures
Again, today's Page 1 image from an Islamic State video "in the slaying of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto" only encourages more terrorist brutality.
Why does the irresponsible Gottlieb keep on running the story on the front page?
The rest of A-1 today is wasted on the Super Toilet Bowl.
Municipal news
Today's Local section is filled with legitimate municipal news for a change, but stories from Hackensack and Teaneck have been conspicuously absent lately.
Four out of five stories on Saturday's Local front reported on employment issues in Paterson and Emerson, and on the police in Glen Rock and Lodi.
The fifth story was about the sentencing of a former Paterson auxiliary officer who tried to cover up the death of a motorcyclist.
The rest of Saturday's Local section was mostly Law & Order and court news, as if the municipal staff and local assignment editors in Woodland Park took Friday off.
Kelly on 'Sniper'
Hard to believe New Jersey columnist Mike Kelly couldn't find anything else to write about today except "an extraordinarily subtle but deeply significant fact" in the film "American Sniper" (O-1).
The punch line?
"The hero at the center of the story, Chris Kyle, served four tours in Iraq." (%$&!!!*()@???)
'Rape' or not?
If a grand jury voted against indicting four William Paterson University students on charges of sexual assault, or rape, why did the banner headline on Friday's and Saturday's front page refer to a "rape case"?
It wasn't, after all, a case of rape. The headline should have used the phrase "rape charges" or "alleged rape."
Free country
I guess emergency room doctor and pilot Christopher Okechukwu of Paramus has every right to commute in a 1976 Cessna 150 (Friday's gee-whiz story on A-1).
But after the engine sputtered and he landed on a highway in West Milford, shouldn't he reimburse the town and any other first responders?
Property taxpayers shouldn't have to subsidize the wealthy doctor's joy rides.
Blizzard fizzled
Last Tuesday's "Blizzard of '15" edition was really embarrassing, though not quite as bad as the incorrect banner headline that ran in The Chicago Tribune on Nov. 3, 1948:
"DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN"
The Record's stories, under the banner "READY FOR THE WORST," called the storm potentially one of the biggest in decades and reported a virtual lockdown on transportation.
Maybe, it's a good thing The Record wasn't able to deliver the paper to subscribers -- even though fewer than 6 inches of snow fell in some places -- telling them in an e-mail to look at a digital version online.
Next time, instead of swallowing whole all that hysterical TV news hype, The Record should put a story on Page 1 explaining just how many times forecasts have been right and wrong to put the developing storm in perspective.
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