The lazy, incompetent editors of The Record of Woodland Park really must have been scrambling for news by the looks of today's front page. Three sanitation workers in Fair Lawn were sickened by a chemical, but is that any reason to put a huge photo of a garbage truck on Page 1? Are we all in danger? And is the football game promoted under the masthead so earthshaking?
The lead A-1 story is about continuing job losses -- 85,000 in December. Isn't it time the editors assigned reporters to interview victims of the recession to put flesh, blood and emotions into the statistics? I guess they are secure in the knowledge the Borg family is interested only in enriching themselves and will continue to ignore the shameful job the editors are doing in covering local news.
Take a look at the Local section today. Far more attention is being paid to schools in mostly white communities than to those in highly diverse Hackensack, Teaneck or Englewood, which has segregated elementary and middle schools.
With no Hackensack news on most days, readers are getting accustomed to waiting for the weekly Hackensack Chronicle, delivered with the former Hackensack daily on Fridays. This week, we learned the city manager asked union workers to forgo their scheduled raises in 2010. The weekly also has carried a story on how Mayor Marlin G. Townes, a computer wizard, saved the city thousands of dollars by making its computers more efficient, asking nothing in return.
See earlier post: "Did you see this in The Record?"
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