CJ trashes Rocky's but awards 2 1/2 stars

[Robin Garr]

Today the CJ absolutely trashes Rocky's - and knocks 1/2 star off the standard 3.

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/en ... /74417376/

[Robin Garr]

Also, they say there's no good eats in Jeffersonville. Any Hoosier thoughts on that? Red Yeti? Mai's Thai? Come Back Inn? Hmm.

Yow! I guess the CJ was selling too many papers in southern Indiana. Whew! Thank goodness they took care of that problem in no uncertain terms!

How in the world does she even get to 2.5 stars after that thrashing? 2 at best, one would think.

Can we just establish, once and for all, that the star ratings are arbitrary and likely set by someone in marketing rather than the reviewer herself? Every time we have a review we seem to have this discussion. I think the writing is on the wall on this one.

[Robin Garr]

Can we just establish, once and for all, that the star ratings are arbitrary and likely set by someone in marketing rather than the reviewer herself? Every time we have a review we seem to have this discussion. I think the writing is on the wall on this one.

You're right, of course, but that shouldn't deter us from chewing the gum until the flavor is all out of it.

I still want to know if she'll ever trash a restaurant that she featured in Secrets of Louisville Chefs. I have to believe that the Binghams, pere et fils, are both spinning in their graves about that.

The gum is barely chewable and the flavor is long gone.

Does she write the headline/title? I have been led to believe that the writer doesn't - after many years of crappy sports headlines that don't match the article written.

[Robin Garr]

Does she write the headline/title? I have been led to believe that the writer doesn't - after many years of crappy sports headlines that don't match the article written.

She probably does not write the headlines, Ellen. I can tell you that at newspapers (at least back in my days as a reporter), the reporters filed our stories, and the copy editors wrote the headlines. This made sense in print publication, since the headline had to fit the space that the designers allocated for the story. At LEO, we can write our own headlines if we like, and the editors usually take them unless they're awful. And of course, as a digital-only publication, we write the headlines on HotBytes without worrying whether they'll fit on a paper page.

But we're talking about the star ratings here, and I would certainly hope that the reviewer gets to make that decision, or at least recommend it.