October 23, 2007 - 11:59pm
At The Record, the columnists dominate
By Wally EdgeNext time someone criticizes New York-based network news coverage of local politics in New Jersey, consider this: WNBC-TV’s Brian Thompson covered the mass defection of Lyndhurst Republicans, but The Record – Bergen County’s daily newspaper -- did not. This cycle, The Record’s columnists, specifically Charles Stile, Alfred Doblin and Herb Jackson, have been at the top of their game, and clearly dominating political coverage. Stile broke the story that Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli traveled to Italy on a vacation with State Senator Joseph Coniglio, the target of a federal criminal probe. It took The Record a week to run an editorial on Molinelli, and they never actually covered it as a news story.
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Can't compare the rest of NYC-based coverage
to Brian Thompson. Brian is at the top of his game and has broken a number of key NJ political stories... hence his place on the Power List. Besides the fact that he pays attention to us, he also happens to be exceptionally talented.
But he is the exception, not the norm. NY-based coverage of NJ local politics is dismal and practically non-existant, and any criticism is well-deserved.
Meanwhile, WAKE UP Bergen Record!
Brian Thompson
sounds like Brian Thompson posts on here using the name Mongoose. If not him, then Chris Christie does.
who else is there?
Brian Thompson is so far and away the best NYC TV reporter covering NJ politics, that I can't even tell you who the ABC and CBS NJ correspondents are.
Wow
You don't know who the reporters for ABC and CBS are? OK, now for sure it's Christie.
please define "coverage"
when you're talking about the record's columnists, that's a word you can't throw around lightly