“If I was working for anybody who paid me a salary, then my responsibility is to go out, generate clicks, get all the dirt, be as nasty as possible… But I'm not an investigative journalist anymore. I just don't have the time. I don't have the resources.”
Food and Loathing | Covering the Las Vegas Food Scene · Food & Beverage · October 2026
Context
Explaining why he isn't digging into a troubled local restaurant's story, the Las Vegas food writer contrasts his old newsroom job with what he can do running his own show.
Transcript
Okay. So, hey, Taylor, welcome to Las Vegas full-time. I can't wait to be dining at your restaurant and saying yee-ha. Okay, big off-strip story this week has been the insanity at Echo and Ring.
Yeah.
You know, look, I'm going to say this first. First of all, Sam Marvin, good friend of mine. I mean, you know, he and Cheryl are fantastic. Great person. And, you know, I've done business with him in the past, right? When this story broke, I was like, thank God I don't do these stories anymore. And I'm going to explain why. Like, if I was working at the review journal, if I was working for anybody who paid me a salary, then my responsibility is to go out, generate clicks, get all the dirt, be as nasty as possible, get talked to everybody. But that's actually a very high workload to do because, you know, everybody you get to say something nasty, you've got to confirm and make sure it's true, and it only is. Then you got to get the other side. And I mean, that's just pure journalism, simple, simple fucking journalism. But I'm not an investigative journalist anymore. Right. Right? Like, I just don't have…
people have asked me. I don't have any details. All I know is what I've seen on social media. I just hope that everybody involved, and I do mean everybody, is finding their way. They're figuring it out. And yeah, hopefully they come to a way where everybody feels paid and taken care of, and that…
It's a rough time for restaurants now. Yeah. There's no reason to celebrate a fucking restaurant closing. There's no reason to pile on. And, you know, and then who knows what happens? I'm running a small business and I run a teeny, tiny little business. It's fucking hard, man. And they've got two…
You and I have had conversations at length on this, and I think it's worth taking a minute right now and just acknowledging that we don't do this because we're trying to tear people down. I mean, one of the things that's in all of my social media things is, you know, build longer tables and tear…
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