Shocked, Shocked!

Everyone knows that weekly Jewish newspapers - with a few exceptions, such as New York's Jewish Week and the LA Jewish Journal -- are frightfully un-independent, even when they have no official connection with the local Federation. (I chuckle at the thought of my local weekly, the Connecticut Jewish Ledger, doing any sort of muckraking journalism.) Thus this scandal about some journalistic hanky-panky surrounding the name-change of the Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia don't impress me much. (What would Rabbi Akiba do in this situation, anyway?)