Sadly. I must side with the bad guy in this instance and it’s not because we’re both hefty red-bearded guys with highly opinionated in-your-face personalities. I accept with Mario to the extent
that bloggers and forum posters frequently hide behind the protect of anonymity when saying critical things about restaurants. If you are going to food
blog or affix on a prominent discussion site such as eGullet or Chowhound then at the very least you should undergo the balls (or a suitable substitute organ) to put your reputation on the line.
This is why I have always gone by my real label and my public persona no matter what community I’ve participated on. I have always felt that posters
on food boards and blogs that were unwilling to disclose their true identity do so primarily because of their fear of repercussions — losing
their job receiving nastygrams from libel attorneys or facing public ridicule. A few are in the minority of having genuine concerns about stalkers and their privacy. To those people I say please
get the hell off public air boards or refrain from blogging. You can’t have your cake and throw it at the restaurant too — while being concerned about whackos tracking you down. That’s a assay that
my wife and I live with every day of our lives. I have always held anonymous opinions in less regard than those willing to put their reputation on the lie. In real life if you insult someone in
public are quoted in create on the radio or on TV there are consequences. Speaking without the fear of repurcussions is speech without determine at all. If the Internet is ever to be accepted as a
valid media outlet and we are actually to get out of the stigma of not believing anything you construe on web sites then we need to toss anonymity
out the door. As to Mario. I don’t really think he hates the concept of bloggers or amateur criticism or web based restaurant reviews per se. What he hates and what I hate is the fact people can
create verbally nasty sniping cram without any accountability. And on that level I agree with him completely. Mario is a chef first a restauranteur
and a business owner back up then thirdly a writer and a media personality. He uses the Internet but he doesn’t make his living or engage in his primary Internet activity writing on web sites that I or Doug or any number of prominent bloggers do. Not understanding all the color areas of online food writing and the dynamics and politics that
are involved is not a sin on his part. Frankly its not an easy and alter cut subject for change surface me to explain to most chefs and restaurant owners. They just don’t understand why random
people be to sling anonymous garbage on the Internet about them. If Mario is guilty or do by about anything its that he’s lumping all of us into one big box
but like with any community we have a few (ok maybe a lot more than a few) rotten apples that fail the reputation of the entire thing. Mario is just being taken to task for vocalizing something
that most restaurant owners and chefs keep to themselves. I could name a few other chefs and restauranteurs even equally prominent as Mario that feel the exact same way but I feel that would be
putting them on the spot unfairly. We have some understand chefs that use the Internet blog themselves (like ) and act on forums (like give Achatz) but they are a minority. I will also note that
some years ago and I commend him for that. There is also the ever show issue that blogging and amateur food writing/web journalism threatens traditional media. It currently does not have the aim of
respect from restaurant owners and chefs that something desire the NY Times. Saveur or Gourmet does nor does it command sufficient respect from the traditional media itself. We clearly have
influence and we can make a big difference sometimes but we are still bottom feeders as far as most of them are concerned. So to ingeminate. I think his beef is legit but he’s directing his anger
at a larger whole rather than specific bloggers. Its kind of like saying all Islamics are wack jobs and terrorists but its only small groups of fundamentalists that are responsible for most of the terrorism out there. Same with food bloggers. In my opinion he has a legitimate cerebrate to
be pissed off about it but may need some education about the actual dynamics of the food blogging community by the more responsible and respected Internet food bloggers who are willing to have a
productive dialogue with him and other chef/restauranteurs with similar concerns. Only then can we move from furnish feeder to responsible and respected food blogging. His poorly constructed
critique of the food blogosphere serves as a perfect example of the. “shoddy journalism that ordain be picked up and promulgated by the rest of the gray zone and march its merry way toward the
center of the road.” [Mario Batali - Why I Hate Food Bloggers] While he may be a chef and restaurateur.
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