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| Governors Christie and Cuomo vetoed a package of reforms for the massive Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, but proposed replacing the antiquated midtown Manhattan bus terminal, above and below, where North Jersey commuters have faced rush-hour delays for years. The Record hasn't followed up or even asked commuters for their reaction. |
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
Newspapers editors, including those at The Record, love to assign long retrospectives of the past year and predictions of what lies ahead.
That allows them to ignore what is happening right under their noses.
Mike Kelly kicks off the first day of the new year with a whimper -- an exceedingly boring column filled with lots of rhetorical questions and trite observations (A-1).
And from the look of Kelly's shit-eating grin, the editors haven't resolved to update the thumbnail photos used for the past seven or eight years by most of the paper's columnists.
By the way, the caption with Kelly's A-1 column claims the people in Times Square are shown "on Wednesday night," but readers can clearly see the photo was taken in daylight.
Talented photo staff
The Record's photo staff gets belated recognition today, with photographers describing their favorite shots in 2014 (L-1 and L-3).
The editors ignore the photographers the rest of the year, using photos from around the world in the Shot of The Day feature on A-2 (today is a rare exception), and relegating some of them to ambulance chasers.
Inside Local, readers find the obituary of Bob Brush, longtime chief photographer of The Record (L-6).
Blaming the victim
Also on L-6 today, NJ Transit calls Jorge Arcila, 52, of Hackensack a "trespasser" after he laid down on the tracks and was killed by a commuter train on Wednesday.
Was Arcila homeless or a father, brother or son?
None of that humanizing information appears in the story in order to keep the focus off of how little NJ Transit does to protect people from their trains.
As the L-6 photo shows, NJ Transit has negligently failed to put up fences along its tracks on Railroad Avenue, showing contempt to the many working-class residents of the Hackensack neighborhood.
And when is the last time you saw an NJ Transit police officer at rail crossings or stations?
Eat-O-Rama
The Better Living editors today look at what is supposedly coming in the arts, entertainment, food and dining in 2015 (BL-1).
This is a selective list, mentioning only one restaurant, Orama, which will replace the long-shuttered Matsushima in a building behind Mitsuwa, the Japanese supermarket and food court in Edgewater.
Staff Writer Elisa Ung, the paper's chief restaurant critic, does a great imitation of Orama's public relations spokeswoman, carefully omitting mention of prices at what is probably going to be one of Bergen County's most expensive restaurants (BL-1).
The name, Orama, recalls Bowl-O-Rama, Eat-O-Rama and even Barack Obama.
The moderately priced Matsushima closed in May 2010 after 14 years in business.
Matsushima replaced a far-more expensive Japanese restaurant that flopped.
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