Image via WikipediaEditor Francis Scandale seems to have a talent for making the front page of The Record of Woodland Park as boring as possible. Even the story on drowsy driving deaths puts readers to sleep. That's such old news. And the merger of two water agencies? It's all speculation.
Will Governor Christie run for president in 2016? That's like five years away. Just last week, he completely ruled it out, but on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, he apparently left the door open. No one asked Christie how many hundreds of thousands of state residents would like to get rid of the bully at the end of his first term, in 2014.
The caption on the continuation page of the "Meet the Press" story is inaccurate. The "short of suicide" comment wasn't made to moderator David Gregory on Sunday; it was made last week, as the story notes.
If the front page is boring, what can you say about head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' Local section? It's the usual Monday mix of charity, volunteer and non-profit news -- with hardly any municipal news.
The weekly statistical look "at issues affecting North Jersey" is about "binge drinking." If you saw the size of some of the editors, you'd understand why it isn't about "binge eating."
Circulation is dropping
In a statement printed as a business story last week, Publisher Stephen A. Borg gloated. He said The Record's circulation has dropped less than that of the Star-Ledger and the New York papers in the past year, but he didn't reveal the figures include the Herald News, which is considered an "edition" of the former Hackensack daily.
Borg gave the total circulation as 137,269 daily and 171,348 Sunday. Compare that to 162,572 daily and 192,816 Sunday -- the figures listed on the North Jersey Media Group Web site for the end of 2007.
That's a drop of about 25,000 daily and more than 20,000 Sunday in three short years under his so-called leadership.
Raising the spoiled brats
A comment from one of my many Anonymous readers takes me to task for saying Stehpen A. Borg and big sister Jennifer A. Borg were raised in Englewood.
Jennifer was born May 14, 1965, and Stephen was born May 13, 1968.
She attended boarding school in Connecticut (The Hotchkiss School), and was there when her parents moved to Englewood. Stephen attended the private Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood.
This is very disconcerting. If the two water agencies merge, the price of water might go up. That in turn could discourage a drowsy driver from splashing cold water on his face, thus falling asleep at the wheel and causing an accident, killing several people and contributing to an increase in insurance rates. I'm surprised the Record didn't make the connection.
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