Word: zevin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inaccuracies [in Zevin's account of Let'sGo information-gathering procedures] were thebiggest untruths in the article; every fact ischecked," said Gage, the editor of Nathan's guide,who was not quoted in the article. "The R-Ws do 90percent of the work, and anything they can't checkthe editors call. It was no problem last year...
...addition, editors said that Zevin'sportrayal of Nathan was inaccurate. Zevindescribes the R-W as flustered, emotionallyunstable (he shows an exhausted Nathan sending anote to Aker saying, "I hate Alp. I loathe Alp. Idetest Alp.") and something of a flake as well,pointing out numerous times the 'Harvard is hot'T-shirt Nathan wears and emphasizing a few of hisill-phrased quotes...
Fitzpatrick blamed the article's negative slanton Zevin's disillusionment with the life of aworking travel writer...
...Zevin compared Let's Go to The Berkeley Guides,the self-proclaimed "hipper than thou" competitionwho know what "cheap is all about." He describedLet's Go Publishing Director Peter J. Keith'94-'95 as a freshly scrubbed executive who"presides...from a glass-enclosed, Lou Grant-styleoffice overlooking Harvard Yard...
...executives say Zevin's article wasdoomed from the start by the fact that "it is notinteresting to write in Rolling Stonemagazine how great Let's Go is. He [Zevin] didn'tfind much dirt at all because we areprofessional," Fitzpatrick said...