By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
In today's anniversary coverage of the George Washington Bridge lane-closure scandal, The Record again claims to have broken the story (A-1 and L-1).
And the addled Road Warrior columnist even takes credit for ending the four day-plus traffic jam on Sept. 13, 2013 (L-6).
A year later, little has changed at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Governor Christie has managed to insulate himself from direct blame -- and stick the public with more than $9 million in legal bills.
The infamous "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" e-mail launched state and federal investigations, but they grind on.
And Bridget Anne Kelly, the Christie deputy chief of staff who sent it to crony David Wildstein at the bi-state agency, and others close to the governor fell on their swords.
Media failed us
The Record and other media have let us down.
Instead of dogging the GOP bully at every public appearance to explain his innocence, they dutifully reported his dog-and-pony shows on Sandy and his purely political trips to Iowa and Mexico.
Meanwhile, tolls keep on going up, and Christie and his Port Authority appointees have refused to expand mass-transit alternatives to commuting by car.
You've seen little reporting about that.
"The Record's claim of a scoop is ringing hollow" is the heading for my Jan. 14, 2014, post, which can be read in its entirety by clicking on this link:
The Times was first with word of federal probe
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