Crossing the line? Restaurant critic hires local chefs to cater wedding

Romenesko points to an article by Ken Edelstein at Creative Loafing -- "AJC dining critic flouts a conflict of interest." It's about the Atlanta Journal-Constitution restaurant critic Meridith Ford Goldman hiring local chefs (whom she had regularly written about) for her wedding party. Edelstein writes:

The situation brings up so many conflict-of-interest issues that it’s hard to imagine how they could have been overlooked by Goldman or, just as importantly, by her editors.

Edelstein says he "practically choked on [his] chicken livers when the daily ran Goldman's article gushing about the chefs at her reception."

-- Betty Hallock