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| Image via Wikipedia If you're trying to avoid the additive-filled beef served at Sear House-- an expensive steakhouse in Closter -- don't order the swordfish entree, which is high in harmful mercury. |
A truck flips on Route 3 and another vehicle rolls over on Route 17, and The Record is all over it today, with big photos plastered on Page 1 and the Local front, bringing readers the latest, ho-hum news.
Nothing tells readers better than these routine, non-fatal accident photos that interim Editor Douglas Clancy, head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and their lazy sub-editors are desperate to fill space.
And nothing is a bigger slap in the face to the talented photographers the paper employs than this ridiculous ambulance chasing, which makes the once-great Woodland Park daily look like one of those silly weeklies.
Turn here for senseless
Since taking over as the Road Warrior more than eight years ago, John Cichowski has transformed a column on commuting problems into a column for drivers.
Now, can anyone tell me what he's blabbering about today (L-1)?
See L-8 for Hackesack news -- another long, detailed story on legal troubles in the Police Department.
Where is Your Money's Worth Columnist Kevin DeMarrais when you need him to explain why gasoline prices are going up again -- 7 cents overnight at a Shell station in Teaneck on top of a one day, 10-cent hike last week.
Stake in the heart
Staff Writer Elisa Ung knows so little about how beef is raised -- or is just feigning ignorance -- it is irresponsible to allow her to review restaurants, especially in view of her lavish praise today for Sear House in Closter.
On the Better Living cover, Sear is called "a dramatic new addition to the culinary scene," likely a reference to it being one of the most expensive restaurants in North Jersey -- with a $45 rib-eye steak.
What do customers get for their money? Fatty, grain-fed prime beef that is likely pumped full of harmful antibiotics and growth hormones, and possibly raised on animal by-products (kitchen scraps and bits of dead animals).
Ung doesn't say otherwise, so readers also have to assume the domestic lamb chops are raised with antibiotics and growth hormones. The 3-star Sear also serves swordfish, which is high in harmful mercury (Better Living centerfold).
Instead of important details on how the food Ung samples is raised or grown, readers get snappy, meaningless headlines, such as the cover's "Serious Steak."
Seriously unhealthy, that is.
Restaurant owners can get away with serving low-quality beef at ridiculously high prices only when they have complicit reviewers like Ung to help them hoodwink diners.
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