Image by hsuyo via FlickrI swung by The Record's old headquarters on River Street in Hackensack yesterday to see if Mac Borg was in, and sure enough, his tank-like Mercedes was parked in the usual spot.
Malcolm A. Borg, now chairman of North Jersey Media Group, has always favored big sedans from the German carmaker, and he recently bought a new model -- an S-Class sedan that probably cost about $100,000 (photo). I remember coming to work many years ago, and seeing Mac's grown children with the keys to his latest Mercedes-Benz, which he had just bought, intent on going for a joy ride.
Today's paper, put out in Woodland Park, is an unreliable ride.
Not to minimize the loss of a Marine from Westwood, but was his burial in Arlington National Cemetery the best story the lazy, incompetent editors had? Did it really deserve A-1 play, in view of the many stories about him since his death Jan. 14 in Afghanistan?
Local continues its Bergen County-phobic news coverage of just about any town but Hackensack, where The Record was founded in 1895. Deer (L-6) and bears continue to get more play than some people.
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Wow. Congrats for getting off your flattened ass, out of your retched pajamas and into the "field." You see, I have problem with the premise of this blog -- and many others written by people who don't "report" but merely posture from the safety of their dingy basements. And it isn't that your views aren't sometimes valid-- You have the uncanny ability to make me want to root against you, even though I agree with much of your criticism. My problem with this blog is that it's so transparently driven by by the animus of an ignored and petulant child --one who for years begged to be heard, but never earned the credibility to have any say so, because you simply didn't have anything constructive to offer to the newsroom...or turned people off with your nagging and at times quite annoying personality. THAT (and not some conspiracy by "Laughs-A-Lot" or "FIsh-Stinks" or whatever inane unclever epithet you come up with next) led to you being pushed into the corner like a dust kitten (or that sad sack in "Office Space" constantly getting moved to cubicles further in the corner and grousing about his missing stapler.)
ReplyDeleteI'm with that infamous ballbreaker Jerry on this one: You'll infinitely enhance your credibility if you begin practicing what you preach and either report, separate petty beefs from legitimate ones, or at least raise the level of discourse with insightful criticism instead of cheap shots...Anything to help turn this blog into something more interesting than digital graffiti on the walls of an already crumbling institution.
Boy, you sound just like Jerry DeMarco. Are you his clone? Are you Jerry in disguise? Did he pay you for this? I had a distinguished, 15-year reporting career at three daily newspapers, including The Record, and won some awards for both news coverage and food writing. What you and no other critic can say about my blog is that it is inaccurate. Deirdre Sykes used to have a card mounted on her computer with her name, as did every staffer in the newsroom, and "Laughs A Lot" also appeared on that card. It's either her self-description or one she has adopted, so it's not an inane unclever epithet, as you put it. Many staffers had to listen to her uncontrolled laughter and shrieks across the newsroom day after day, even when the news was grim and depressing. More than one staffer muttered under their breath that they wanted to kill her.
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