Image by stephenhanafin via FlickrOn Tuesday, Sept. 14, The Record and Columnist Mike Kelly continued their Page 1 smear campaign against the imam who is behind the proposed mosque near Ground Zero. I can't recall any stories about other apartment landlords in North Jersey, including those who own buildings in Paterson and Passaic.
I also can't recall any stories smearing the shore rabbi who is at the center of the biggest corruption scandal in New Jersey history -- the one that brought down numerous officials, including the cocky young mayor of Hoboken -- or the paper railing against the synagogue he is affiliated with. Is Kelly targeting the imam because he is Muslim?
Just below Kelly's diatribe is an A-1 story on Governor Christie's cuts to after-school programs for 9,000 children of the working poor. Shame on Christie, who continues to live large and cater to such millionaires as the Borgs and his rich, fat-cat supporters.
In Local, a family with seven dogs continues getting better coverage than many towns, and photos are blown up as big as possible to take up the space of local news that was never filed.
I have two problems with Sachi Fujimori's Better Living story on sustainable seafood. Recommending big-eye and albacore tuna flies in the face of everything I've read about high mercury levels in those fish.
And while Costco's sources for farmed fish are condemned by Greenpeace, the warehouse store gets no credit for selling a wide variety of fresh and frozen wild-caught fish and other seafood.
On Sunday, Sept. 12, free-spending food writer Elisa Ung recommends "gourmet" takeout dinners for $10.95 to $14.95, some of them frozen. I will match the restaurant-quality takeout dinners from Jerry's Gourmet & More in Englewood ($6.99) against any of them. And I'll give you a piece of sound advice she neglects: Plate your food and heat it in the microwave; don't reheat food in plastic takeout containers.
(Photo: Manhattan and New Jersey.)
