The lead story on the front page of The New York Times today discloses details of a death in the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack, just down the street from The Record's landmark building on River Street (photos shows old county jail, below, and justice statue on courthouse). The story apparently has never been reported in The Record, now headquartered in Woodland Park.
Link is below:
Death of immigration detainee in Bergen County Jail
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Question. If you hate The Record so much, why did you work there for so many years?
ReplyDeleteThe Record was a good newspaper for most of the years I worked there. It's decline began with the hiring of Frank Scandale as editor in 2001 and the ascendancy of marketing wizard Stephen Borg, who took over from his father in 2006. Borg is only interested in enriching himself and the cutbacks he ordered have really damaged the paper.
ReplyDeleteso stephen borg is the only publisher in the business that is ordering cutbacks? you need to depersonalize from the newspaper situation in the states.
ReplyDeleteNo one ever said he is the only publisher making cutbacks. But he may be the only publisher who took a $3.65 million mortgage from his company to buy an estate months before the cutbacks were announced.
ReplyDeleteOh the Bergen Record, gotta love it. First my paper gets stolen out of my driveway on Saturday morning in front of my very eyes. The local police tell me there is a possibility it was one of the Record's delivery people, as they are apparently known to come back to neighborhoods later in the day of delivery to steal newspapers. I call the automated system Saturday for redelivery of the paper on Sunday. Sunday morning, no redelivery. Call a live person on Sunday, they assure me a paper will be delivered later on in the day. Redelivery finally is made by mid-day, however it is another Sunday paper, not a Saturday paper. Call the automated system again for redelivery on Monday. Monday morning, no redelivery, call a live person again. 4 phone calls for one newspaper.
ReplyDeleteReflects my own experience, but you are getting even worst service than me. The circulation department is as dysfunctional as the rest of the paper. I can't tell you how many times I asked for suspension of the paper during vacations, only to find my neighbor had to pick them up while I was away.
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