Alfred Doblin

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Alfred Doblin, the editorial page editor and columnist for The Record, was offended by former U.S. Sen. Bob Torricelli's PolitickerNJ.com Op-Ed that sharply criticized his newspaper.

"Being lectured on meanness by the likes of Bob Torricelli is akin to Amy Winehouse leading a rehab retreat for substance abusers," Doblin wrote.  CLICK HERE TO READ DOBLIN'S COLUMN

Read an e-mail sent to The Record's Charles Stile and Alfred Doblin by State Senate Gerald Cardinale, in response to Stile's column on Cardinale's re-election campaign against Joseph Ariyan:

Next 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.

Assemblyman Gary Schaer seems to have done well in his first major test as a newly-elected state legislator. Last week, a news report about the embattled School Construction Corporation's plan to build a new school in Passaic next to a theater that regularly shows pornographic movies and an apparently shady hotel that is allegedly frequented by drug dealers and prostitutes. Schaer was quick to challenge the SCC, and after the Assembly's voting session, he met with SCC officials in Trenton. Within fifteen minutes, SCC officials admitted their apparent blunder, blaming it on a lack of communicaton between local officials and the SCC. Schaer got plenty of media attention -- more than most freshman -- with radio and TV appearances and some kind words from Herald News columnist Alfred Doblin. At a meeting between SCC and Passaic officials and Schaer yesterday morning, a tentative plan to renovate the theater and use it for the city's performing arts students was agreed to.