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A friend suggested that I get the inside dope on what was happening in Ridgewood by perusing the blogs. I was honestly shocked by the narrowmindedness of some of the posts – particularly with regard to the editorial standards of our local newspaper.
Hindsight shows that the reporter was doing his job – reporting – not passing judgment on what was being exchanged, just reporting what was taking place. Isn’t that what he was supposed to do? Remain objective? And didn’t the editor simply back up the editorial integrity of the newspaper by not yielding to public criticism and printing the news as news? Spare me the conspiracy theories, would ya!
Now as for the math controversy. Sure, I knew people were up in arms, and yes, I’ll admit that some of the protocols for teaching left me baffled, but I saw my kids NJASK and Terra Nova test scores and, well…can kids get higher than 99th percentile? Something must be going right in the school system.
No question that all the bloggers love Ridgewood and that discourse is healthy. But, informed and objective discourse is healthier still.
>Nice try Susan–aka johnny midnight, aka Sue from The View, aka 11:35 PM–we know you’re behind Andrew and Sue’s flog. Just fess up and move on with your life.
>Fact: Susan Sherrill is editor of TRN
Fact: TRN s–ks
>Does Susan Sherill have different personalities to go along with all those different names? You know, like that Sybil person in that movie?
>hey guys .. the ridgewood news is what it is .. feel good journalism to reflect the goodness of ridgewood so good families will move here and feel good about themselves surrounded by all this goodness
eeechhh .. time to throw up .. but its a good kind of throw up
>SUSAN SHERRILL THE MOVIE
101 minutes, R
Rated R for crude humor, language, and comic content
Cast:
Susan Roxbury……….Susan Sherrill
Johnny Midnight……..Susan Sherrill
Sue of the View……..Susan Sherrill
Anonymous 11:35PM……Susan Sherrill
TRN editor………….Susan Sherrill
>While at the grocery store I glanced at the headlines in today’s Ridgewood News and decided not to waste 50 cents. Watch your pennies and the dollars take care of themselves.
>**Susan Sherill should come out with a public statement, if she was duped by Andrew and Sue, she should come out after them.**
Susan is Sue of A&S so her public statement would be berating herself?
>Wake up little Susie wake up. Take ownership of the mess you’ve made as editor of our local newspaper. You can’t fix what you don’t acknowledge.
–Dr. Phil
>Pray tell 11:15 p.m. how can Susan Sherrill defend her integrity and her paper when neither have integrity???
>It is never too late to grow a little integrity.
>i saw that susan sherill movie and give it two thumbs down
>Ridegewood news would have covered the math moms last night if Kieth Hamas was still with them
he did interview andrew and sue
wonder if anyname or number showed up on caller id
wonder if he would recognize their voice
wonder why he is no longer with the Ridgewood News
hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>What a dreadfully boring newspaper today. Does that mean we’re a dreadfully boring town?
>So, Keith Hamas is now gone from TRN? Susan Sherrill still remains? How many reporters have come and gone since Sherrill came on board as editor? Get out your paper and scissors terc people and see if you can figure this one out.
>Another reporter bites the dust. Way to go editor Sherrill.
>does this make Keith Hamas the sacrificial lamb?
>Stop screwing around with other people’s lives Susan.
>Hey 2:33 PM — TERC math doesn’t work well when the numbers are too high. You’ll have to have the traditional mathematicians work on that problem.
>i liked keith hamas’ articles.i think he did a fine job.cant say the same for susan sherill.i hope keith wasnt fired cuz if thats the case then they fired the wrong person,right,sue?
>It’s always the underlings that are let go while the boss keeps screwing up and getting away with it. I don’t know how Susan Sherrill can look at herself in the mirror and like what she sees.
>The Ridgewood News is literally going to the dogs. We’re training our new puppy and she only seems to like to pee on the local paper. We’ve had no luck using The Record or The Wall Street Journal. Therein lies the problem because The Ridgewood News only comes out once a week. I’ve gone to all my neighbors asking if I can have their Ridgewood News but none of them get it. Bummer.
>The Ridgewood News must be the black sheep of the North Jersey Media Group’s family of newspapers.
>baa baa black sheep have you any news?
>In the Record listed under North Jersey Media Group is Malcolm A. Borg, Chairman and Jennifer A. Borg Esq., VP/General Counsel. In the Ridgewood News under the same heading is Stephen Borg, President. I didn’t realize until now that this was a family owned group.
Why does this family have higher standards for The Record than for their Ridgewood News? We subscribe to both newspapers and you wouldn’t know they’re run by the same family.
>Why does this family have higher standards for The Record than for their Ridgewood News? both papers are terrible the Record backed the Nazi’s like it back all the big goverment bull now its pathetic and is one of the reasons this blog gets so much traffic …
>ummmmm–maybe the borg clan should switch editors at the record and ridgewood news then they’d learn real qwik what the problem is–hehehehehe
>right on rufus t firefly. both papers are terrible.
>Thank God for PJ’s Blog.
>Help! Help! The Ridgewood News has fallen and it can’t get up!
>I’ve never seen the record quote anonymous people. You may not like the paper (I don’t) but at least it seems to have some journalistic standards. This does say alot about the ridgewood news, which is run by the same family. Do the Borgs think so little of Ridgewood that they would sic an editor on us that is so unethical? She can’t keep writers; her headlines are terrible; she is a total suck up to the boe and the village council. Anyone that makes as a town leader gets special treatment from her. She is unfair and, worse, she is disreputable.
If she is hooked up with the likes of charlie reilly (is she that stupid?), she will fall. He takes everyone down with him.
>It makes sense that susan would have something to do with the flog. It’s the mouthpiece of the BOE and she is their defender in chief. Those morons at cottage place didn’t even disguise their tactic of spinning themselves as above repute while everyone else (us on this blog) must be trafficing in dirt.
Who are they fooling? The HSAs?
These are the original dirt baggers. They fling so much dirt, they are like Pigpen. A constant cloud of crap surrounds them. They think they are clever and can hide their tracks, but they aren’t. They’ve got reilly out there doing their dirty work for them, which is why he came to the math chat and flung out the BIG LIE of the evening–“I have children at Travell.”
>The blog is great PJ. It sure would be nice to have a real newspaper in town.
I just hate that RN.
>Why did Keith Hamas leave the paper? Anyone know? Is this how the Borg family operates, like a mob, or is this Susan’s doing?
>If Keith had to “interview” susan pretending to be sue and he knew it, I guess leaving the paper was his only option.
Susan is not a nice person, nor is she a journalist, but she comes cheap for the Borg family. Don’t expect her to get the boot any time soon.
>Dear Borg Family: You get what you pay for. CRAP!
>Maybe this is Susan Sherrill’s way of getting back at the Borg family for paying her crappy wages — she does a crappy job.
>Wait a minute … wait a gosh darn minute … didn’t Susan Sherrill do an article a few years back on that restaurant in that house on Saddle River Road (?) and she lead the readers to believe that it was owned by the mob? I think you’re on to something 5:03 p.m. How would she know so much about mobsters? Doesn’t it take one to know one. Ohmygod … does anyone know where Keith is?
>Raise your IQ, stop reading the Ridgewood News.
>Keith was thrown under the bus, remember? Look there.
>ha ha ha ha … PJ … your bloggers are very clever and humorous … I do LOVE going on this blog … the best entertainment around … ha ha ha ha … there is nothing better than a good sense of humor … keep up the good work.
>4:56 PM Yes, I believe Susan Sherrill has hooked up with Charles Reilly. She publishes his letters to the editor (filled with his lies and rants) without fact-checking them. She must think she’s editing the National Enquirer.
>Save the environment. How many trees do you think would be saved if The Ridgewood News went out of business? My guess is 2 or 3 and that’s a darn good start.
>BE COOL — DON’T READ THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
>I don’t think you’d save that many trees if TRN bit the dust. You might save a sapling.
>Soooooo …. Charlie’s in bed (pardon the pun) with Susan. Eeeeeeewwwwwww.
>oh oh time to start a new extramarital blog pj
>Susin Sherill probly looks in the mirror mumbling “I don’t get no respect”
>Did you ever think that maybe the Borg’s are paying Sherrill exactly what she’s worth — not a penny more, not a penny less?
>I’m sorry to see that Keith Hamas has left TRN. I wish him well.
>Ditto 8:20. I met Keith when he was writing his article on the post office. Nice fella.