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By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
The Record's plastic bag in my driveway this morning contained two Better Living sections, two Opinion sections, two TV books and some advertising.
When I called, I was told the news sections would be delivered "after 10 a.m.," but at 10:45, I decided to sit down at the computer, because I have things to do and places to go today.
Crappy burger
It's clear from Elisa Ung's Sunday column, The Corner Table, this ignorant woman hasn't read Consumer Reports in many years, and has no idea the magazine has been exploring such important food issues as harmful animal antibiotics and salmonella in poultry.
In fact, Consumers Union, the magazine's policy and advocacy arm, called on Trader Joe's "to stop selling meat and poultry raised on a steady diet of antibiotics."
Ung refers to Consumer Reports as "the magazine many of us use to buy a washing machine" (BL-1).
This is what you get with a restaurant reviewer who spends most of her time writing about celebrity chefs and the problems facing wealthy restaurant owners while ignoring customer issues.
Her column today discusses a new entry in the crappy hamburger sweepstakes in North Jersey, but doesn't compare the beef used and whether any of the patties are made from antibiotic- and hormone-free beef.
Atlantic Shitty
On the Opinion front, burned-out Columnist Mike Kelly -- he of the inimitable shit-eating grin -- delivers a 40-year recap of Atlantic City (O-1).
The resort and its economic problems are of so little interest to the vast majority of North Jersey residents, you have to wonder why he bothered.
The most incisive commentary on Atlantic City is not Kelly's.
Margulies delivers another hard-hitting cartoon on O-2 today.
Free travel
Travel Editor Jill Schensul reports on another free press trip today, this time to East Berlin (T-1).
I would never pay $118.60 to drive one of the world's unsafest cars, but she makes it sound so wonderful.
The Travel section was delivered with Saturday's paper.
That is a rather ignorant comment by Ung considering if we are buying a washing machine from Sears, chicken from Trader Joe's or dining at a restaurant, we are all consumers and she should not belittle the aforementioned magazine.
ReplyDeleteAnd I believe she is in her 30s. An ignorant, clueless woman I can accept, but as a journalist, she should know better. And where is her editor letting crap like that in the paper. Another airhead.
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