On the Web, anyone can be a restaurant critic, but should they?
On the Internet, everyone has a say.
We’ve always had opinions and a few patient people willing to listen to them, but now we have a soapbox, a microphone and “Step right up!” promoters, announcing to the world that we’ve just reported on a late-night trip to Amy’s Ice Creams and had a 4 1/2-star experience, all because of those Reese’s Pieces crush-ins.
On the flip side: Don’t like the attitude from the text-messaging server who didn’t bring you extra jalapeños for your pizza that took 45 minutes to come out? You can go home, log on to any of a dozen user-generated review Web sites and punish him with a one-star rant.
Yelp, Chowhound, Citysearch and Urbanspoon are just a few of the sites that allow anyone with a keyboard to do a job that was once held by only a few people in a community: professional restaurant critics. For decades, traditional media outlets — including newspapers like the American-Statesman — have paid critics to review not only restaurants, but also movies, concerts, albums, art exhibits, theater performances and TV shows. And now, millions of amateur and not-so-amateur reviewers are taking to the Web to share their two cents, and even more people are going online to read them.
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