entry meta

When I use .entry-meta { display: none; } to hide author and time stamp at the top of each article, the tags under the image also disappears from the page.

To be precise only to hide the author name by using
.entry-meta .author { display: none; }, the time stamp and tags are visible, still a backslash appears before to the time stamp. Any way to get rid of the backslash?
Your advice, Please.