Confessions of a Travel Writer reviewed & rebutted {Gadling}

Aug 13th 2009 3:12AM Charles Runnette and everyone else in that van, as well as all the other press trip whores, can call themselves "travel writers," but please, the pilot did not show "five journalists." It shoed five flaks for the travel industrial complex. Shame on World Hum for whimping out on its interview with Runnette (corporate cousins get the easy treatment) and shame on the NY Times for continuing to use the vaseline-smeared hack whose smug-but-end-with-a-hug review-for-hire style is unfortunately only growing. Ugh.