'Unethical' Lonely Planet author not really that unethical after all, though he wants us to think so for the sake of promoting his own book

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4-14-2008 @ 11:28AM

Raf said...

From the original article Gadling cited:
"They didn't pay me enough to go (to) Colombia," News Ltd newspapers reported him saying..."They don't pay enough for what they expect the authors to do."

From the Guardian article cited here:
"Lonely Planet publisher Piers Pickard told Associated Press that Kohnstamm's revelation of not having been to Colombia was "disingenuous" because he was hired to write about the country's history and not to travel there to review accommodation and restaurants. Kohnstamm later told AP: "It was expected I would never go to Colombia."

He's nothing but a self-aggrandizing shill/hack.

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