Or How Just A Little Knowledge Becomes A Sad Thing… By Richard Thomas One of the bedrock conceits taught at journalism school is that a trained journalist can take on any topic and write an intelligent story. That might be true in theory, because in theory a writer can spend the time to become sufficiently educated on a subject so ...

By Richard Thomas As the Managing Editor here at The Whiskey Reviewer, part of my job is to stay well-informed about what is going on in the whiskey trade. That means following whiskey in the news, and one result of that is being aware of just how much bad whiskey writing makes its way into major media websites. Examples range ...

Or “Don’t Send A Teetotaller To Do A Hard Drinker’s Job” By Richard Thomas Imagine a harried newspaper editor walking into the cubical of a very junior staff writer and saying “Jimmy, what do you know about football?” The green reporter replies he played a little touch football in college and watches the Superbowl every year at some party or ...

By Richard Thomas If you are reading this, you are probably a whiskey fan, and if you are a whiskey fan like me, you enjoy seeing articles about whiskey appear in your favorite periodicals. Enjoy them, that is, until it becomes obvious that the author of the article knows next to nothing about whiskey. This is not about small slip-ups ...