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| Since The Record abandoned Hackensack and its River Street headquarters, above, Editor Deirdre Sykes has relegated local-news coverage to the dumpster. |
Does any reader remember when The Record and other all-seeing, all-knowing media -- in their collective desperation -- declared the start of the presidential campaign?
Was that a year ago? Eighteen months ago? In 2010?
Since then, readers have been knocked senseless with the same divisive rhetoric that has paralyzed Congress and turned off so many voters.
The media aren't interested in perspective or accuracy, nor do they care what you think.
Carrying letters
The Record has allowed voters to duke it out in letters to the editor, giving voice to the crackpots among us, like the West Milford woman who today claims President Obama is "trying to make us like Greece" (A-8).
Since Sunday, the front page has been filled with politics as The Record tries to get apathetic readers interested in Governor Christie's role in the war on the middle class rich Republicans have been waging for decades.
The wildly inconsistent Margulies hits the mark today with a cartoon showing the middle class imprisoned in a pet carrier atop the Romney-Ryan campaign bus (A-8).
We've become lap dogs for multi-millionaires like the Romneys and the Borgs.
We've become lap dogs for multi-millionaires like the Romneys and the Borgs.
No news today
Monday's Local section had two stories from tiny Park Ridge (L-1 and L-2) and none from Hackensack -- thanks to head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' small-town mentality (she's from Harrington Park).
Today's Local section reads like a police blotter or court docket.
More on Zisaville
Hackensack reporter Stephanie Akin makes much ado about a routine motion to set aside the guilty verdicts against former Police Chief Ken Zisa, who has yet to be sentenced (L-3).
There's little chance the motion -- similar to one every defendant makes before they're sentenced -- will be granted at this late date.
The story reflects the bias Sykes showed in covering the trial, basing story after story on the defense version of events.
That photo looks like it was taken standing on private property...careful.
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