HUMC reverses course on Record ban

by: Jason Springer

Sat May 02, 2009 at 02:40:41 PM EDT

Well this didn't take long. Yesterday morning, I made reference to the reporting that Hackensack University Medical Center had canceled all of their advertising in the Bergen Record and banned the paper from the hospital as a result of a Sunday article focused on their practices. A few hours later, they rethought that stupidity and had their PR firm issue this statement:

"The leadership of the Hackensack University Medical Center Board of Governors consulted with the hospital administration and everyone agreed to reverse the decision regarding The Record. We apologize to our patients and our staff for any inconvenience, and we apologize to The Record. We are putting this incident behind us and moving forward."

Maybe they hadn't heard the saying, never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. I don't see how they even could think the decision to ban the paper would make the problem being reported on go away. Instead of banning the paper for reporting, they should go after the practice that's being criticized. I guess they thought it would be easier to try and attack the messenger. In reality, all they did was draw more attention to the issue.

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Too Little Too Late: HUMC Showed Their True Colors (0.00 / 0)

And those colors are dirty, grungy, smelly and corrupt.

The initial Nixonian impulse on the part of executive management was to cut all advertising to all of the Record's papers and to eliminate distribution within the "hospital campus". That's the action of a vindictive arrogant corrupt bully boy.

Then the professional public relations people must have intervened and read the pissed off hot shots the riot act.

The action was so bloody offensive and so obviously corrupt that it would (and should) erode the public's confidence in the whole enterprise. (Not to mention the employees and patients confidence).

This reversal doesn't come from any sense of contrition; but it is the best thing they could do to try to limit the damage. It's a PR strategy.

If the institution were not systemically corrupt, there would be an open transparent investigation and a holding accountable of whomever the idiotic assholes were/was that took this stupid ugly action. Of course that's not likely to happen since it appears that the edicts were issued from the "top".

Now, let's see if The Record presses the matter to really get to the bottom of who made this decision and why....or if they will be content to simply have their advertising revenues restored and keep their jounalistic mouths shut.

The expose was very well done and deserves a diary here. So may "dots" to connect...

My question re Coniglio remains. If he was/is such a dirty lowlife criminal that sold his office to the extent that he should be convicted and jailed...then who was/is it on the other end of the transaction??? What isn't/aren't THOSE person(s) under indictment too???

We haven't gotten anywhere NEAR to the bottom of all the corrupt shit that's ongoing in Bergen County.

I hope the Obama justice department knows how to spell RICO, Chris Christie (you know, the corrupt petty partisan hack) sure couldn't.

Is it possible that there are corrupt petty partisan hacks in both parties?

by: Nick Lento @ Sat May 02, 2009 at 21:11:28 PM UTC