Why Did The Stranger Pull Negative Restaurant Review from Website?
By AAN Staff
january 25, 2008 03:01 pm
The paper and its crosstown rival the
Seattle Weekly are giving competing explanations for the review's disappearance. The restaurant's co-owner
tells the Weekly that
The Stranger agreed to give him "a deal" on advertising and take the story off the website after he complained about the review when it ran in the Jan. 3 print edition. But
Stranger publisher Tim Keck says the review wasn't fair, and
a note on the Stranger's website says the review was taken down because the restaurant was visited within the first three months of its opening, which is against the paper's editorial policy. Keck tells the
Weekly that the restaurant was given free ads, but it wasn't part of a deal to quiet the owner, but rather due to "production errors" in earlier ads the restaurant had run.