Thoughts on the Lonely Planet scandal: Guidebooks are a sham

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4-14-2008 @ 4:43AM

No-doz said...

A good guidebook is like the friend you wished you has in a city. It gives you the shorthand you want to get out there and experience the place for yourself without spending days starting from scratch. Only fools keep their noses glued to the book, in the same ways fools keep their noses glued to the viewfinder of their video cameras.

I know a few guidebook writers and find it hard to paint them with the broad simplistic brush of Jeffrey White. Most are hard-working and believe in what they do. Not all have the cushy life of Jeffrey White, cribbing pieces - with credit of course! - from the Herald Sun in Australia, the NYT or, God bless 'em, the Consumerist. Maybe his post on Kohnstamm is so inept because he's not used to actually generating his own opinions.

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