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| A shortage of rush-hour seats on NJ Transit trains and buses, speeding drivers and lax enforcement of traffic laws are just three of the many pressing commuting issues ignored by Road Warrior John Cichowski, who continues to churn out inaccurate and exaggerated columns three times a week. |
Today's Road Warrior column amounts to little more than Staff Writer John Cichowski's well-disguised correction of his first, wildly exaggerated column on the pedestrian bridge over Port Imperial Boulevard in Weehawken that was published only 4 days ago.
It's time for Editor Marty Gottlieb of The Record to end the Road Warrior column, which continually violates the high standards of accuracy newspapers demand of their reporters.
Errors galore
I'm not talking about typos, the many math errors Cichowski commits or how he often contradicts himself from one column to the next.
Wednesday's Page 1 column intentionally created a transportation crisis that didn't exist, and strongly suggested that pedestrians were being injured or killed crossing Port Imperial Boulevard to reach the NY Waterway ferry.
Nothing could be farther from the truth, as today's L-1 column sheepishly admits on L-6.
Even Friday's Road Warrior column on the first traffic signal installed in Ringwood carried an L-1 photograph that directly contradicted Cichowski's claim that "no more than 7" cars backed up at the new light.
See the Facebook page for Road Warrior Bloopers, which discusses historical, mathematical and other errors in the Ringwood column:
Road Warrior keeps on lying to readers
Dead stories
Today's front page keeps on beating dead horses.
Three of the four main element are follow-ups to stale controversies involving the allegedly dishonest Assemblyman Robert Schroeder, LG Electronics' high-rise plan for the Palisades and Big Data.
Cliff notes
Coverage of LG amounts to little more than endless reporting of who is in favor and who is against the South Korean electronic giant's headquarters plan in Englewood Cliffs.
Today's A-1 story quotes an angry Mayor Joseph Parisi Jr.
Isn't it time for The Record's editors to research lawsuits and talk to neighbors of other corporate developments to uncover what borough officials might have done in the past in their desperate bid for ratables?
More guesswork
The fourth main story on A-1 today is about a "serious incident" in Leonia that keeps readers guessing from beginning to end.
Sadly, the story amounts to a shameful admission by head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes that she and her staff have so few sources in that town they have to wait for press releases to tell readers the full story.
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