Lonely Planet writer admits he never visited country he wrote about

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4-13-2008 @ 11:40AM

Leif said...

As another Lonely Planet author, I'd like to add that no one was holding a gun to his head. If he felt he was not being paid enough money for the Columbia job and he was incapable of logically producing evidence for an upward adjustment in fee (each LP author negotiates a fee for each job – we're freelancers working on a contract-by-contract basis, so nothing is fixed) he could have simply said 'no'. Why on Earth accept a job that you don't feel is paying enough? It makes no sense. Though it sounds as if ethics and sense are not this guy's strong suits.

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