[LMB] Yikes! (Reactions to bad reviews) OT:

[Martin Bonham]

In a post I read in Digest, Vol 35, Issue 72
Matija Grabnar <matija at serverflow.si> wrote
> http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/authors_behaving_badly_82556.asp
> and the reaction at
> http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=663
> and
> http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/index.html

Supposedly bad (allegedly factually incorrect) restaurant reviews (of generally 
well regarded restaurants) have been in the news here.

It seems that the owners of three local restaurants seem to have been in a feud 
for several years with the reviewers from Metro (a local glossy magazine).

In the latest instalment, the magazine left the restaurants off a 'best 50' 
list, the restaurants retaliated with a full page Sunday Newspaper 
advertisement,  including a recipe for  "Metro Food Critic Testicles".

Of course it has all generated enormous amounts of free publicity for both 
sides - even live interviews with protagonists from both sides of the dispute.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10506599
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10506504

Martin.

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Martin Bonham, Auckland, (Aotearoa) New Zealand.
Home of Middle Earth, Whale Rider, and now also King Kong and Narnia.