Are the editors wearing condoms?

Image via Wikipedia

Turn left at Main Street in Fort Lee for great Japanese, Vietnamese and Chinese restaurants.

The Record of Woodland Park has been in bed with Governor Christie since he took office in January, giving the Republican bully a pass on his refusal to tax millionaires or raise the low gasoline levy and, more recently, ignoring the billions in federal transportation and education aid he has blown.


So, the Page 1 story today on Pope Benedict XVI opening the door on the previously taboo subject of condoms as a way to fight HIV raises a question: 

Are Editor Francis Scandale, Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin and the unidentified members of the Editorial Board wearing condoms when they pleasure the governor?


I guess Scandale ran out of other weighty news for A-1 today, so he's exploiting human misery once again to fill space. 

He is running a huge photo of anxious relatives of 29 miners trapped not in New Milford, New Providence, New York or New Mexico, but in New Zealand. Mining is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Where are the stories of mining companies whose safety shortcuts endanger their workers?

The odds of doing his job

I guess the odds of Road Worrier John Cichowski writing a column on commuting problems or mass transit is probably 1 in 1,434 -- far greater than the odds of hitting a deer, his subject today (L-1).


Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes' Local section today has only two stories that could be called municipal news, and the longest is a 16-inch filler on sidewalk repairs in her tiny hometown, Harrington Park. There is no Hackensack, Englewood, Teaneck, Ridgewood or Fort Lee news, or anything from many other towns.


Columnist Mike Kelly got beaten badly by The New York Times, which last week reported on previously secret documents about "a well-known Paterson community figure" who was killed in 1985. Kelly tries to write around that in his column today (O-1), but why not just do a news story about this "former Nazi operative" who allegedly murdered Jews during World War II and be done with it? 

And Kelly's phony smile in the photo with his column? That tells you he has nothing to write about.

Governor No

Jimmy Margulies' editorial cartoon today (O-2) could have listed the millionaires tax, raising the gasoline levy to fix roads and improve mass transit, childhood obesity programs and a lot of other stuff Christie has said "no" to since he took office.


Better Living today has the second major piece in less than a week promoting Chef Jamie Oliver's new cookbook and TV series about America (F-1). 

It's true Oliver is probably one of the least obnoxious and pretentious of celebrity chefs, and Staff Writer Kara Yorio lists North Jersey ethnic food enclaves he overlooked. 

Unfortunately, she herself overlooked excellent Japanese, Vietnamese and Chinese restaurants in Fort Lee and instead touted the food court at a Japanese supermarket in Edgewater.


Elisa Ung's column, The Corner Table, lists only online discounts available at local restaurants and other food places (F-3). 

Why did she omit the $25 dinner discount Campania Restaurant in Fair Lawn has been offering in its Record ads since shortly after its chef committed suicide -- which she and the newspaper covered extensively?