Hackensack again gets the cold shoulder

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I guess Hackensack readers are just so much chopped liver. Anyone who lives here, The Record seems to say, doesn't deserve to know what's going on in their city, where the paper was founded in 1895 and where patriarch Malcolm A. "Mac" Borg frolicked as a kid in his enormous back yard.

Staff and program cuts at North Jersey schools are front-page news in the Woodland Park daily today, but you won't find a word about the Hackensack district -- one of the biggest -- continuing a news blackout on the city. Clueless head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and Hackensack reporter Monsy Alvarado seem to have forgotten Hackensack exists.

Of course, Glen Rock schools are included in the story, as is the Tenaflly district. Does that have anything to do with Editor Frank Scandale calling the former home or with his kids attending school there, or with Publisher Stephen A. Borg and his children, who live on a $3.65 million "estate" in the latter?

At the bottom of A-1 today is a terrific feature about Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who is battling cancer but who endured during the voting marathon that passed health-care reform. I especially like how the senator exposes the sickos who fought to defeat the measures. (Photo: Lautenberg before he shaved his head.)
 
Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin is exposed for the elitist he is by Ringwood Schools Superintendent Patrick Martin, whose Op-Ed piece on A-23 today shames us for turning our backs on the Ramapough Mountain Indians. You might recall the Doblin-endorsed editorial a few months ago, urging sick Upper Ringwood residents to accept a pitifully small settlement in the decades-long Ford Motor Co. dumping case.


Just remember it was Stephen Borg who replaced The Record's long-held motto on the front page -- "Friend of The People It Serves" -- with marketing hype -- "The Trusted Local Source." He's sadly mistaken if he thinks readers swallow that bullshit.