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19-year-old travel blogger tarred and feathered
On the other side of the pond, there's been a steaming pot of controversy boiling over and spreading through the blogosphere. It all started when 19-year-old Max Gogarty put up his first (and only) blog post on The Guardian's travel site.The arrange was that he would be blogging for the renowned paper for his entire gap year, which he's spending in India. Here's an excerpt of his post:
At the minute, I'm working in a restaurant with a bunch of lovely, funny people; writing a play; writing bits for Skins; spending any sort of money I earn on food and skinny jeans, and drinking my way to a financially blighted two-month trip to India and Thailand. Clichéd I know, but clichés are there for a reason.
I'm kinda shitting myself about travelling. Well not so much the travelling part. It's India that scares me. The heat, the roads, the snakes, Australian travellers. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited. But shitting myself. And I just know that when I step off that plane and into the maelstrom of Mumbai - well, actually, I don't know how I'll react.
Whether it was his prosaic writing or the fact that his father works for The Guardian, it seems he pissed of a whole lot of people, enough to shut down the comments section of his post, and ultimately forced him out of the cozy gig.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nick Hawkins Feb 19th 2008 9:42AM
The column didn't do him justice - it was truly one of the most awful things I've read. His dad was also the former travel editor of the Guardian, so that helped take someone who can't put together a coherent post. But the Guardian made it about mob rule and how people on the evil internets hurt his feelings instead of dealing with nepotism in the workplace and that common reaction to defend fellow "journalists" at all costs.
The comments were the best part of the article.