Where have the editors been hiding?

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How much of his huge fortune will Republican Mitt Romney squander on his bid to unseat President Barack Obama?

Tensions

rising over

inequality

of wealth

Study reveals shift in

middle-class attitudes

I almost spit out my coffee when I saw these headlines on Page 1 of The Record today and wondered what the editors have been doing during the last two years of partisan warfare between the rich and everyone else.

It's just like interim Editor Douglas Clancy to wait for a survey to confirm what readers knew long ago.

The Record does its best to ignore Governor Christie's refusal since he took office two years ago to raise taxes on millionaires or hike the levy on fuel for their gas-guzzling limousines. 

And Republicans in Congress are doing their best to keep taxes on the rich at a 50-year low as a result of the Bush tax cuts. 

Mitt Romney, leading in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, estimates his net worth at $190 million to $250 million.

You'd have to be a fool to believe they care anything about unemployment, foreclosures and all the other shocks destroying the middle class.

Chickening out

It's not just the news editors who are out of touch.

Years after antibiotic-free chicken showed up in supermarkets, Better Living today publishes a cover story on how to read poultry labels (F-1). 

The story would be a lot more useful to readers if it listed brands that are drug-free, such as Readington Farms (ShopRite) and Murray's (Fairway Market), and those that are raised with lots of antibiotics, including Perdue and Tyson.

Little real insight

The major element on Page 1 today reports on the latest desecration of a synagogue, which involved a Molotov cocktail tossed into the bedroom of a Rutherford rabbi and his wife.

The A-1 sidebar by Staff Writer Deena Yellin reports the rabbi was injured, but the main story doesn't. 

The caption for the photo, which shows the rabbi and his wife, says the gasoline bomb was thrown into "his bedroom" when it should have been "their bedroom."

Neither story attempts to explain why there have been four attacks on Bergen County synagogues since Dec. 10.

And where has head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes been, covering most of the front of the Local news section with a fire in North Bergen that killed no one?