Image via WikipediaI guess Hackensack readers are just so much chopped liver. Anyone who lives here, The Record seems to say, doesn't deserve to know what's going on in their city, where the paper was founded in 1895 and where patriarch Malcolm A. "Mac" Borg frolicked as a kid in his enormous back yard.
Staff and program cuts at North Jersey schools are front-page news in the Woodland Park daily today, but you won't find a word about the Hackensack district -- one of the biggest -- continuing a news blackout on the city. Clueless head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and Hackensack reporter Monsy Alvarado seem to have forgotten Hackensack exists.
Of course, Glen Rock schools are included in the story, as is the Tenaflly district. Does that have anything to do with Editor Frank Scandale calling the former home or with his kids attending school there, or with Publisher Stephen A. Borg and his children, who live on a $3.65 million "estate" in the latter?
At the bottom of A-1 today is a terrific feature about Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who is battling cancer but who endured during the voting marathon that passed health-care reform. I especially like how the senator exposes the sickos who fought to defeat the measures. (Photo: Lautenberg before he shaved his head.)
Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin is exposed for the elitist he is by Ringwood Schools Superintendent Patrick Martin, whose Op-Ed piece on A-23 today shames us for turning our backs on the Ramapough Mountain Indians. You might recall the Doblin-endorsed editorial a few months ago, urging sick Upper Ringwood residents to accept a pitifully small settlement in the decades-long Ford Motor Co. dumping case.
Just remember it was Stephen Borg who replaced The Record's long-held motto on the front page -- "Friend of The People It Serves" -- with marketing hype -- "The Trusted Local Source." He's sadly mistaken if he thinks readers swallow that bullshit.
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I couldn't help but notice there was no obit of Marty Lederhandler on the Record web site as of 9:30 this morning. The AP already had a lengthy obit of him. I'm sure it will work its way onto the web site when someone over 50 informs the digital staff of his importance, and likely Jay Levin will be all over it for tomorrow's print edition.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Just one of the stories The Record misses.
ReplyDeletewhat is your obsession with the Borg's money? 'enormous back yard'-hardly relevant. no million dollar house in your past??
ReplyDeleteBorgs Woods is now a park in Hackensack. It's what? 14 acres? Do you recall it was only neighborhood opposition that deterred Mac Borg from selling it to developers.
ReplyDeleteAnd, anyway, coward, why don't you identify yourself? If you don't like what you read here, there are thousands of other blogs you can nitpick.
as I recall the 'backyard' was donated to the town. and i am sure it was in alot better shape then than it is now.
ReplyDeleteDonated but only after his plan to cash in on it met so much community opposition. When you complain I am harping on the Borgs' wealth, remember they are a lot more than just passive business owners. What they do affects North Jersey, and what their newspaper does or does not so also affects all of us.
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