RonnieD wrote:If it will help, Robin, I will post these topics from now on to avoid your taking a beating over starting a topic about another reviewer.
Sheesh, people.
Here's the deal Ronnie...I have no issues at all with forum members discussing a review as it applies to the restaurant or their personal experience with the restaurant, I don't even care if forum members voice their opinion on the style of writing. Where I have a -great- deal of heartburn is when Robin violates the journalistic professional courtesy of (in this case) repeatedly and publicly calling into question this woman's professional style and credentials through heresy and innuendo. My mother started out in the newspaper business in the 1950's...as (among other things) the dining editor. Before leaving the newspaper business she had done a good job of climbing the journalistic food chain. After leaving the paper she taught English and Journalism at a major state university...including a class titled "Ethics in Journalism". Later in life, I attended the same school, majoring in Journalism...until such a time as I realized I would never master the proper use of (among other thing) the apostrophe...So let's just say I have a bit more background and/or exposure to journalism than the average Billy on the street....and one cardinal rule is that one journalist (and in this case I use the word loosely) does not "call out" another journalists work....especially in a public forum where the second party has zero opportunity to respond.
In this particular instance what Robin (thinks) he is so clever at doing is to post some little benign topic to get things rolling wherein he then commences to throw out little zingers, rumors, innuendos, etc calling into question this woman's style and qualifications...which potentially have a chilling effect on this woman's career...Simply put, it's just a bunch of cheap shots.
I think Robin has done a yeoman's job in a couple of respects to add to the overall dining scene in Louisville but it my -personal- opinion that in this particular instance he has displayed a significant lack of professionalism...and there you have it, one man's opinion.