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| Except for a long article on how NJ Transit track assignments are made at Amtrak's Penn Station in Manhattan, above, The Record's transportation reporters apparently have never set foot on a train or bus during the rush-hour and reported on the quality of service, in contrast to the endless drivel and clueless advice for drivers from the paper's so-called Road Warrior, Staff Writer John Cichowski, also known as The Addled Commuter for all of the errors he makes. |
By Victor E. Sasson
Editor
The Record's front page today keeps up the drumbeat for Governor Christie as a Republican presidential candidate in 2016, leading many New Jersey residents to speculate on just when they will get rid of him.
The Woodland Park daily insists on calling the GOP bully's victory over Democratic state Sen. Barbara Buono a "landslide" (A-1), though fewer than four of every 10 registered voters actually cast ballots, according to APP.com.
It may be more accurate to say "partial landslide" or "rock slide."
The Asbury Park Press Web site reports "turnout was expected to be well below 40 percent."
Mall cops
There isn't much else on Page 1 today except for the reopening of Garden State Plaza after an armed Teaneck man committed suicide there, and another silly column from Tara Sullivan, the Woodland Park daily's Vagina Monologue.
The big A-1 photo of two Paramus cops patrolling Garden State Plaza is an unintentional sight gag.
Are shoppers at the state's biggest mall supposed to feel safer with two police officers walking the beat?
The officer with his hands in his pockets looks especially benign. Where are the automatic weapons and body armor?
Three embarrassing corrections appear on A-2 today.
Hackensack news
The Hackensack City Council and Board of Education continue their negotiations and war of words over a resource officer at the high school (L-3).
Council members have frozen out Richard Salkin, the board's attorney. The Record's story today incorrectly identifies Salkin as "city attorney."
Salkin also was the city's municipal prosecutor until a council reform slate booted him out of the job this year.
Deputy Assignment Editor Dan Sforza needed another gee-whiz photo of an overturned car to pad today's local news report (L-3).
Spice route
Better Living brings us just what we need -- an Indian restaurant in Secaucus that has imported Manhattan's sky high prices (BL-1 and BL-3).
Not only that, but you have to drive on Route 3, competing for space with maniacal speeders and tailgaters.
There is no pronunciation guide for the restaurant's name, Dhoom, but I'm guessing this place is doomed.
Second look
On Wednesday's Local front, Road Warrior John Cichowski reported on an accident four years ago in which a speeding driver nearly killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
The pickup truck driver was caught, thanks to a red-light camera, which Cichowski has repeatedly demonized in previous columns.
His Sunday column on a driver who complained of high towing charges failed to note the poor schmuck could have avoided the alleged ripoff by having his car jump-started at a nearby service area gas station.
The column, which broke a two-week silence, was filled with errors, says the concerned reader who set up a Facebook page for Road Warrior Bloopers.
Wednesday's column also misleads readers about pedestrian safety, which is improving in New Jersey.
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