PVT Week #2 - Still needs improvement

Week two of the newly formatted Passaic Valley Today (PVT) was just as disappointing as last week's edition.

Readers might recall that Richard A. Green, the North Jersey Media Group's editor and vice president for news, wrote in an Op-Ed "Message from the Editor," published in The Record on Sunday November 13th, that starting on Wednesday, November 16th readers will see a newspaper that is more visible in the North Jersey community, that will expand its public service and investigative reporting to serve as a watchdog of those in public office.

Regrettably this pledge has not been actualized and residents of Little Falls are now left with a weekly community newspaper that is a shell of what it once was.

In this week's PVT, consisting of 32 pages, there were only two articles relating to Little Falls.  One was about the Passaic Valley wrestling team; and the other was about Passaic Valley High School hosting a substance abuse awareness program on December 2nd.

The remaining content of this week's PVT is lacking letters to the editor; has a generic  article about Black Friday shoppers featuring residents of Bergenfield and Dumont along with an undated photo of shoppers exploring Black Friday sales at the Willowbrook Mall; a listing of Bergen County home sales; an article about mid-autumn in Livingston, Montana; and a review of a New York City play. 

In addition, the PVT web site, which featured the articles from each weekly edition of the PVT, has not been updated since Tuesday, November 15th. 

PVT readers who are disappointed with the newspaper's new format and lack of Little Falls news coverage should flood Mr. Rick Green with messages of concern by calling him at 973.569.7118 or by sending him an email message at: green@northjersey.com

Let your voice be heard!