Catholic leaders attacked NYC’s plan to give away 26 million, subway-themed rubbers yesterday, calling the attempt to lower the AIDS rate “tragic and misguided.”
Another two journalists who oughta have their tushies paddled: first, our old classmate from NYU journalism school, Maria Bartiromo, CNBC’s puffy-lipped “money honey,” has been caught accepting private jet rides from ex-Citigroup honcho, Todd Thomson, a person she was supposed to be objectively covering. Commenting on Bartiromo’s “close friendship” with Thomson, Steve Adler, Editor-in-Chief of Business Week, where Bartiromo writes a regular column, said, “We’re confident that she’s been complying with our journalistic code of ethics…we think it’s a useful column for our readers and we’re continuing with it.” In other words: she’s hot. On a second front, the New York Daily News published a non-apology for its shmaltzy and completely innaccurate coverage of Cesar Borja‘s death, and Cesar Jr’s grief.
Our favorite snow storm story is Mayor Bloomberg’s bizarro decision not to suspend parking regulations, even though thousands of cars were plowed in and couldn’t be moved unless owners — many of them elderly — grabbed shovels and chipped away at frozen drifts. For years, the Mayor has tried to prove he’s not just another insensitive billionaire, dangerously out-of-touch with the peasants. He rides the subway sometimes, he listens to Aretha Franklin, and unlike his creepy predecessor, he makes nice with everyone. Fortunately, the picture of cops issuing tickets to snow-bound cars created such outrage, the Mayor back-tracked today.