Telling black readers to go elsewhere

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A story on the front of Local today reports an incident where a customer announces over a public-address system that blacks should leave the store. Hasn't the The Record of Woodland Park been telling blacks, Hispanics and white residents of Hackensack, Englewood, Teaneck and other Bergen County towns to go elsewhere for news of their communities?

The Record has yet to report the impact of state aid cuts on Hackensack schools -- even though details have appeared in the weekly paper owned by North Jersey Media Group and many other Bergen districts have been covered in that regard.


On Page 1 today, Staff Writer Ashley Kindergan does a terrific job telling readers what led to the murder of a popular Bergenfield teacher, allegedly by her violent husband. Kindergan, one of the best reporters at the paper, easily outdoes bloodhound Jerry DeMarco's Cliffview Pilot.

The coverage of NJ Transit fare hikes is pathetic. The A-1 story is reported and written by Tom Davis and Karen Rouse, two transportation reporters so lazy they have refused for years to ride and write about local buses such as the decrepit 780 (Englewood-Passaic city), patronized mostly by blacks and other minorities, that are not even worth the fares charged now, let alone the revised 10% hikes. Is that a surprise when you remember how clueless the assignment editors are?

Then, on  A-10, Alfred P. Doblin, the selfish little man who edits the Editorial Page, has the nerve to run an editorial opposing the higher, 25% increases for rail riders -- without disclosing he is one of those who will be affected. I guess The Record pays Doblin a salary so small, it will be strained by the new fares.

In Better Living, two of the three food articles focus on pork belly (photo) and beef. Readers are running for their Lipitor.