Most journalists these days, when perturbed about low wages and too much work, will take it out on angryjournalist.com. Thomas Kohnstammm, a travel writer for Lonely Planet, decided to start moonlighting as a drug dealer and fabricating stories to get back at his employer for his low wages.
This story made me angry down to my core. Not only did this guy, claiming to be a journalist, wipe his rear with the integrity of the industry, he has now written a book about it and will probably make money off of the ordeal. He has admitted these follies as his new book, "Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics and Professional Hedonism," hits stores.
Lonely Planet has been the go-to for young travelers (myself included) as a reliable source of information that can be pretty necessary when you are halfway around the world. This guy wrote an entire chapter on Columbia without ever having been to the country. It's no wonder journalists are put on the same level as used car salesman and ambulance chasing lawyers these days, even our own are working against us.
Ugh, chances are I'll end up cross-posting this one on angryjournalist.
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