Jerry DeMarco on The Record: 'Pathetic'

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 Here is a comment e-mailed to me by former Breaking News Editor Jerry DeMarco, who was reacting to some Hackensack history I lifted from a community message board and posted under, The Zisas and the Borgs:

"This long-timer stuff is priceless. The Record can replace bodies, they can replace salaries, but they can't replace institutional memory. And with so many reporters moved around like so many pieces over the years, they've lost institutional memory.

"Rich Cowen, for instance, was the last reporter to have Englewood nailed. Then they shipped him out to what was then the Passaic bureau. Markowitz was the last to REALLY know Teaneck, but they made him a business reporter. And on and on....


"How much you want to bet, after reading your post, they have their incompetent CAR [computer-assisted reporting]  lab scouring records to find retired Hackensack cops -- when all they'd have to do is track down Jack Terhune or Roger Breslin, if they're still alive. Shoot, they could raid the clip file and find former reporters who knew the city's politics.

"Pathetic."