Montclair's local elections, perhaps the most exciting, divisive, and controversial in years, brought out the press, including yours truly, working the scene with my favorite reporting tool, the iPhone (not a paid endorsement). If you wanted to find out who won the election last night, Baristanet was the place to go. Baristanet also sent an email blast to 3,000 people and tweeted the news.
Montclair didn't rate any TV crews that I could see, but ink-stained wretches were everywhere, including Star Ledger's journo's who called it in to Phil Read*for his morning report, and the lovely Erica Zarra of the Montclair Times. Never mind, the Montclair Times wasn't the go to website if you wanted to know what was going on. Their website looked like this at 9:45 pm and was still unchanged at 11am this morning.
*Phil published election results on NJ.com at 10:04 pm and made it to the party at Unity HQ...
Partnership Montclair was gathered upstairs at Tierney's trying to make sense of the results as they were posted. We heard the crowd was monitoring municipal Channel 34, but the televised results were nearly impossible to read.
Nobody had to "call it in" to Phil Read; he was on Bloomfield Avenue last night.