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...Zevin's lack of objectivity, Gage said, wasexacerbated by the fact that he did not attend anyof the recruiting sessions or information meetingsthe group held, and that his only criteria forwhich country to visit was that it be "someplacecool." Also, she said, his article containednumerous--and significant--inaccuracies...
...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...