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Let’s get something straight

choppingblockYou may have recently read about Matthew Evans, a Sydney Morning Herald critic, who is being sued for defamation based on a less-than-flattering view of a Sydney eatery. Loyal readers of Suck My Radish might wonder why we don’t include any shocking reviews on our website. Allow me to explain.

When I started this site, I was looking forward to being to write about food with the consistency of a ‘used rubber glove’ a la AA Gill, as much as to direct readers to my favourite places to dine. But I have to be realistic – I do not have the financial might of a Fairfax or a News Ltd to back me up if someone doesn’t like my opinion or the opinions of my talented and loyal writers.

It is for this reason that if we are severely disappointed by a restaurant, we simply don’t review it. Our tactic is to not give them any publicity. This might not seem adequate, but I’m afraid that being a small website with little to no funding, it’s all we can do.

I’d also like to add that while there are some reviewers that give the art a bad name, giving bad reviews for entertainment purposes, I think it’s really sad that reviewers in a litigious society such as ours can’t just say everything they want to say without fear of retribution.

Thanks for listening.

Forever yours,
Master Radish

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Comments (1)

John

November 16th, 2009 at 6:40 pm    


This is a perfectly acceptable position, and while snarky reviews are often entertaining to read they generally are written with pretty base intentions. After all, when you really think about it, when was the last time you ate something with the consistency of a ‘used rubber glove’? Isn’t that as useful to a reader as writing that something tastes like an ‘angel’s tears as it looks into the eyes of a newborn child’? It’s ridiculously hyperbolic and not very helpful.

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