Image via WikipediaAfter months of falsely stating on Page A-2 every day The Record still is located at 150 River St. in Hackensack and that it's published daily at the same address, the Borg family and North Jersey Media Group today finally admit they moved to Woodland Park last year.
The editors jettisoned the ridiculous "Good News" story on top of the weather map on A-3 and moved the map to A-2, devoting the third page to state news, as it was in the past, although half of it is now advertising. (Photo: Church on The Green, across the street from the Bergen County Courthouse in Hackensack.)
Who takes responsibility for the appearance of "150 River St." on A-2 for so many months after the former Hackensack daily moved most of its staff out of the landmark building, where Malcolm A. "Mac" Borg still holds down the ghost-filled fort? Publisher Stephen A. Borg? Vice President and General Counsel Jennifer A. Borg? Mac himself?
The River Street address appeared on A-2 day after day under the paper's new motto, "The Trusted Local Source." What a hoot. How can you trust a paper that hides its wholesale abandonment of Hackensack, where it was founded in 1895 and prospered for more than 110 years?
To rub salt in readers' wounds, editorial coverage of Hackensack has shriveled, as head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes keeps ordering Staff Writer Monsy Alvarado to cover anything about Police Chief Ken Zisa but nothing about schools, development, municipal affairs, City Council and school board meetings, pockmarked streets, gas-guzzling police cruisers, creaking local buses, relentless aircraft noise, and the impact on Main Street of the paper's move to Passaic and Morris counties -- just to cite a number of potential stories.
Is Monsy stationed in the newsroom at 1 Garret Mountain Plaza in Woodland Park or with a handful of reporters at 150 River St.?
Take a look at the correction on A-2 today. It's the second time in a matter of days the incompetent editors ran the wrong picture. The first time, the picture with an obituary was of the wrong man. Today, the paper acknowledges it ran the wrong picture of a woman charged with distributing painkillers.
Perhaps you should read up on the way corporate filings work in New Jersey. That would explain why the change in address was delayed. But it's easier to be vicious and petty, so we hardly expect you to do any research.
ReplyDeleteThe winds of hate are blowing around the planet, Victor. Why add to them?
What are you saying? It takes nearly a year to change a company's address? And who is "we," Anonymous? The winds of hate? Doesn't The Record add to them daily with its lack of diversity in the newsroom? Its lack of diversity in its columnists?
ReplyDeleteIt takes no time to change the address. You tell your editor to change the address and the address changes. Corporate filings? Trying so hard to always look intelligent is what makes you "leaders" of the Record look so foolish. Do you really think we don't know better?
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