Free press travel: necessary ... and certainly not an evil

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11-11-2009 @ 1:10PM

Theresa said...

#6 reminds me of a time I expressed my distress at the implications of writing about a place without having visited it. This verges on unethical to me and is a total disservice to the reader, but I was told that a good reporter can write about anything. Certainly, one could write about the number of hotels on Main St. or the population of a city without having visited it, but only by experiencing a destination can one convey a true sense of place and even then, that is subjective.

As for the perception that paying for your own travel makes you honest, it should be noted that many publications will either kill a story with negatives or simply eliminate any references to potentially harmful testimony; it keeps the advertisers away.

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