KENTUCKY: Good grades for TV news restaurant inspection reports - (Ville Voice Eats)
February 1, 2008 – 5:01 pmReports filed this week by WDRB Fox-41 and WHAS-11 on restaurant inspections were actually more informative than expected. Our preemptive criticism of these reports centered on WHASs ratings-driven hype rolling up to its own reports, and we implied doubt that the station would unearth any real information.
Its reports, (see WHASs Dirty Dining, no link on the Fox site)however, did provide somenot a lot, but somehelpful info, and if the station gained any viewership as a result, good on them.
Heres what they found: Both stations reported on a handful of restaurants whose windows bore A ratings from the Metro Health and Wellness (MHW) administration when they should have borne Cs. If a restaurant fails an inspection, it gets a C if the failure isnt significant enough to close the operation. A week later, it gets a follow-up inspection, but even if it passes with flying colors, the C is supposed to […]
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