No, that's not a phoenix rising from the ashes of a 27-year career at The Hudson Reporter, that's ace political reporter Al Sullivan!
Yep, no sooner than this walking archive of Hudson and Bergen County political history got escorted out of his office building, his column landed on New Jersey's top political web site, InsiderNJ.
Big props to him on landing this gig, and on more to come.
Yep, no sooner than this walking archive of Hudson and Bergen County political history got escorted out of his office building, his column landed on New Jersey's top political web site, InsiderNJ.
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| finish reading at: https://www.insidernj.com/mr-fulop-builds-dream-house/ |
Big props to him on landing this gig, and on more to come.
On a personal note, when Al called me last Friday to tell me about massive layoffs at The Hudson Reporter-- including him- the first thing I thought of was the cats. Because for the last 10 years we've been friends (minus 3), it seems that when Al's not working, he's running one of the many neighborhood strays he cares for to the vet, from the vet, or nursing a kitty's chronic health condition. So without a job, how will Al pay those vet bills and buy them food?
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| Some of Al's many feline friends, lounging about this morning |
Oh, yeah. Sullivan has to eat, too.
So what a disappointment, that The Hudson Reporter took a meat clever to so many jobs, and left only two beat reporters to cover all 12 Hudson County municipalities. Yep. Two. In gutting it's beat coverage, the paper gave 84,000 readers The Finger. Glad to hear that Marilyn Baer, Hoboken's beat reporter, survived. But many others, including husbands and wives, got the ax leaving their families without an income or health insurance. I had high hopes when the paper was purchased by an established NJ media group. Who knew they'd stomp on it?
Well, Fate can't keep a multi-talented writer, photographer, videographer and reporter like Al Sullivan down. We spoke this morning about the layoffs.
"There's a Sophie's Choice; upper management decided how many jobs they wanted to ax, so no matter who went, it was going be a hardship," he said. "I have sympathy for all the ones who survived and the ones who got axed. My biggest problem is that the nature of the paper is going to change. This was a really great institution that gave attention to local communities and now that's going to vanish."
Al continued, "Basically this [layoff] probably forces me to do something I should have done anyway. I have my own writing that i should be promoting i have novels that I should be publishing."
Yep, he's written "between 40 and 50 novels," most are unpublished. Over the years I've pestered him to get an agent. Anyway...
So, how will his hyper-local political column, Between the Lines, adapt to a statewide platform?
So, how will his hyper-local political column, Between the Lines, adapt to a statewide platform?
"It's probably going to evolve into more idea-generated; more the philosophy of politics, covering larger issues, and conflicts of Hudson County politics. On a state level the coverage has to be more philosophical than nuts and bolts."
And he was off. On his to-do list: another vet appointment. Me-ow.
HURRY UP, MEDIA OUTLETS
Now, GA would suggest that interested media outlets contact Al quickly, before his dance card gets filled. Go, Al!
HURRY UP, MEDIA OUTLETS
Now, GA would suggest that interested media outlets contact Al quickly, before his dance card gets filled. Go, Al!
AL SULLIVAN RESUME
Al Sullivan Resume by GrafixAvenger on Scribd
"The departure of Al Sullivan means this Hoboken Horse is now the senior institutional political writer in the Mile Square City..."
ReplyDeleteI think he's confusing "institutional" with "in need of being institutionalized."
Roman Brice IS the Dunning Kruger effect personified.
Deletehttps://www.verywellmind.com/an-overview-of-the-dunning-kruger-effect-4160740
"The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their own capabilities.
So what explains this psychological effect? Are some people simply too dense, to be blunt, to know how dim-witted they are? Dunning and Kruger suggest that this phenomenon stems from what they refer to as a "dual burden." People are not only incompetent; their incompetence robs them of the mental ability to realize just how inept they are.
Incompetent people tend to:
-Overestimate their own skill levels
-Fail to recognize the genuine skill and expertise of other people
-Fail to recognize their own mistakes and lack of skill
Dunning has pointed out that the very knowledge and skills necessary to be good at a task are the exact same qualities that a person needs to recognize that they are not good at that task. So if a person lacks those abilities, they remain not only bad at that task, but ignorant to their own inability."
That is Brice to a T.
It is sad to witness the downward spiral of the proprietor of that now turd filled lean to that houses a worn out and tired nag headed for the glue factory. Does he not realize how weird, creepy and loony his claim to be "the senior institutional political writer" for Hoboken is? Who says? The little men running around in his brain? Are these the same little men that talk to him about Pizza Gate and the pedophilia ring and all of those other crazy right wing conspiracy theories that he rabidly promotes on Facebook? Is it Tiffany and her merry band of miscreants who prop him up by begging people to feed him oats on his site? It has been a sad spectacle to watch the disintegration of a man into the feeble shell of what he was 5/6 years ago. The delusion is real.
Deleteanon, I'll go one further: This is most of the internet's comments section & facebook to a T.
DeleteIt also describes a certain Hoboken Councilperson to a T.
DeleteI'm curious. Do those who suffer from the syndrome also lose the ability to recognize that they are lying when the truth would expose their lack of competence?
Typo. When Roman Brice wrote “Hoboken Horse is the senior institutional political writer for Hoboken” he meant "Hoboken Horse is the senior citizen who belongs in an institution."
DeleteAnother day, another scoop on GA, another jealous snit on the dead blog. Amazing. It just publishes press releases and recycled, unsubstantiated opinion.
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