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| Few white students attended Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood before it added the Academies program. Englewood Cliffs sued to remove its students years earlier. |
Not long after he pushed his father aside in June 2006, Publisher Stephen A. Borg hired a non-profit reporter to find out whether the pennies the young millionaire was donating to charity were being wasted.
Borg was born with a silver spoon in his mouth -- not with a social conscience -- so it's no surprise The Record hasn't paid too much attention to the victims of the recession, which saw the high-living publisher move into a $3.65 million mansion.
Today, Editor Marty Gottlieb and that non-profit reporter, Harvy Lipman, present a hard-hitting package of stories and photos under a banner headline on Page 1, documenting that the number of North Jersey residents "falling into poverty or struggling to keep their heads above water continues to grow."
Scandalous editor
What is remarkable about the stories, photos and graphics filled with startling statistics is how little attention the long-term unemployed and other recession victims received from Gottlieb's insensitive predecessor as editor, Francis "Frank" Scandale, who was fired last October after 11 years in the job.
The photographs by Staff Photographer Mitsu Yasukawa are moving.
But some of the charts raise questions about why residents of Alpine, Saddle River and other wealthy communities are receiving food stamps (A-9).
The danger of such comprehensive coverage is that readers may start to wonder why head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her deputy, Dan Sforza, have failed to report all of this before.
Granny power
That's also the case with Mike Kelly's A-1 column on Lynne Hurwitz, the Democratic power broker behind the decades-long reign of the Zisa family in Hackensack.
Kelly tries to make up for the paper's lack of attention by bombarding readers with almost everything they don't really want to know about Hurwitz except how she lost her virginity.
More idiocy
On Sykes Local front, another Road Warrior column on Infuriating Driving Issues of the Day only serves to remind readers the acronym -- IDIOD -- sounds surprisingly close to IDIOT, a reference to the moron who writes this drivel, John Cichowski.
Sykes and Sforza have been sitting on their asses for so many years, they don't know enough to tell Cichowski to write more about Infuriating Mass-Transit Issues of the Day and less about drivers, in a region that is hopelessly choked with traffic.
White flight
The L-1 story on school districts enrolling outsiders reports Englewood school officials were under a state mandate "to diversify" Dwight Morrow High School.
But the truth is the mandate was "to desegregate" a high school that had few white students.
If you doubt Sykes and Sforza can't find any municipal news to report, look at L-3 today -- a stupid political column and three feel-good stories.
Why is a "world issues" literature program at Tenafly High School -- out of all the other schools in North Jersey -- worthy of a long story in the local-news section (L-3)?
Bottom feeder
In his column on the Business front today and in his monthly Marketbasket survey of supermarket prices, Staff Writer Kevin DeMarrais continues to be in denial about the tens of thousands of shopper who buy organic food (B-1).
You won't find The Corner Table column in Better Living today, because Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung is on vacation.
No loss. Readers need a vacation from her shameless promotion of chefs, wine stewards and restaurant owners.
Here are two of her vacation tweets:
Elisa Ung
Amazing clam chowder at @splashcafe in Pismo Beach, CA. No wonder the line is out the door http://lockerz.com/s/219559367
Amused to see these on the dining room table at Hearst Castle http://lockerz.com/s/219558581
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