Image via WikipediaA month can go by without a story about Hackensack in The Record of Woodland Park and then two will pop up, as in Local today. But is the paper really covering the city it once called home?
The two "Hackensack stories" appear on L-1 -- the head of the police union draws a six-month suspension for posts on an online forum and the owner of Cubby's barbecue restaurant is portrayed in a new book as a peacemaker with the North Koreans.
The cop story is among more than two dozen Staff Writer Monsy Alvarado has written since June 2009, chronicling the legal pissing match between Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa and rank-and-file police officers. No other agency is covered nearly as well.
In fact, Alvarado has not covered a single City Council or Board of Education meeting in that time. On June 13, 2009, she reported the Main Street improvement director had been fired two months earlier, but she never gave a reason and never did a follow-up.
A number of construction projects are under way around the city -- and others have been suspended -- but nothing ever appears about them in the newspaper. Who is Alvarado's assignment editor?
On Monday, at the Wicker Warehouse on River Street, an owner hadn't heard that Malcolm A. "Mac" Borg is one of the few people left in the former landmark building at 150 River Street -- now an albatross around the necks of the sibling rivalry running North Jersey Media Group, Stephen and big sister Jennifer Borg, who apparently have pushed their father aside.
"So The Bergen Record is now located in Passaic County," the merchant said matter of factly.
Jennifer Borg has made no secret her father wants to keep a presence in Hackensack -- even though most of the news gathering and all of the printing takes place in Passaic County and Morris County, respectively. And Mac wants to stay in River City even after the sale of that enormous pile of bricks and surrounding land.
On Page 1 today, don't you think the lazy, incompetent editors could have done more with the Republican mayor who told Governor Christie to "go slow" on his slash-and-burn budget cutting? Instead, we get a baseball team visiting the president all over Page 1. Give me a break.
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