Nice to see you do the right thing, and give her a chance to respond. I'd agree about including a disclosure. I'm guessing the Weekly doesn't agree with your headline that she is a 'PR person for Restaurant . . . "

The Seattle Weekly just posted a correction "CORRECTION An earlier version of this story did not note the author's business affiliation with one of the subjects. We regret the omission."

"Getting an article written by a restaurant's PR firm published in a newspaper is, um, a pretty remarkable PR service—and arguably a serious breach of journalistic ethics on the newspaper's part."

How about promoting your own band? Is that an "arguably a serious breach of journalistic ethics"?

What's this "Seattle Weekly" you speak of?

So, this is more unethical than the posts that link to strangertickets.com, right ?
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

There's no such thing as authenticity. The concept itself is utterly bogus. Unless your Mexican or Malaysian grandmother is making her own recipes for you in Mexico or Malaysia, it's a translated product. There's such a thing as "traditional", but when people use the word "authentic" they're implying something much more than that, something that cannot exist.

This is fine as long as the SW's advertising and editorial departments are separate, just like the Stranger's. That's what you said when your wine columnist wrote about wines he sells at the bar he owns, anyway.

The dog ate their homework.

The Stranger will now be policing the ethics of journalism in Seattle? HAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAAAHAHAAAHAHA

@9 a bar owner writing about wines is a bit like a DJ writing about music. If the wine writer had been paid by a winery to promote some specific wine, and then did so as a column for the Stranger without disclosing said connection, that would be a breach of ethics. Or if that hypothetical DJ were to write about a band didn't just happen to play on the radio, but also manage on the side--again, without mentioning this in the article--that would be a breach of ethics.

When is the Stranger going to realize they are not the last word when it comes to
food, art, culture OR ETHICS.

Yes, when will people cease opining on things with any force? The world desrves wishy-washy neutral statements without bearing on things anybody might care about! Fie, Stranger, how little you understand.