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In their daily scramble for news, The Record's discriminating editors love to fill the paper with police, indictment and court stories, as they do today on Page 1 and on the Local front.
But you never see any reporting on such related issues as the weakness of state and federal anti-discrimination laws or how thousands of greedy lawyers and their high legal fees block access to the courts.
Today, Editor Francis Scandale and his minions spin the high court's Wal-Mart Stores decision as negatively as possible -- just what you'd expect from newsroom managers who practice age, race and gender bias themselves (A-1).
In fact, the paper praises lawyers not for their pro bono work, but for their connections -- especially if those ties are to the Borg family.
Witness the promotional story that ran Feb. 20 about lawyer Louis Pashman of Pashman Stein, a Hackensack firm that has been paid tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees by North Jersey Media Group.
Rotten in Secaucus
The off-lead story on the trial of the former Secaucus mayor runs in exactly the same place as the trial of the current mayor did a few months back.
The government informant is the same, though he was a no-show, but the alleged bribe is far smaller. Is this really A-1 news?
The A-1 promo and L-1 story on an FDU professor fizzles when you learn his alleged prostitution ring is in New Mexico and involved no local co-eds.
Lots of filler
The rest of head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' Local section is padded with another court story (L-1), a photo of a non-fatal accident (L-3) and on the same page, a story on horse racing at Monmouth Park (that's not even in North Jersey).
Englewood reporter Melissa Hayes filed two stories, but there is nothing from Hackensack -- again.
Tale of two buildings
While Hackensack residents await the demolition of 150 River St. to make way for a Walmart, another huge pile of bricks is getting a fresh coat of paint.
Workmen have been repointing the bricks and painting the Sears Roebuck building for the past couple of weeks.
