The journalism craft sunk to new lows long before Fox news and CNN;i.e. Dan Rather-CBS News et al.

No matter what the subject is - his column is almost always doom and gloom.

Joe B is to travel" info" as John Madden is to sports" info". Both of them are overly boring and obnoxious. I cant imagine anyone paying to READ OR HEAR either one.

MisterNice

Freedom of speech and the respect of others right or wrong should be the American way.

According to what the definition of a reporter is
"Somebody who reports news"
Somebody whose job it is to find out facts and use the print or broadcast media to tell people about them
Somebody who makes a report of any kind

Columnist
"somebody who writes a regular column for a newspaper or magazine"

I will assume without any facts or credibilitity or at least not Joe in your humble opinion

My only hope is that I don't get a life sentence as a result in this thread
I take him as part entertaining, part factual, part opinionated.
As I do most jounalists,reporters (sigh) columnists........

I say its a fine line as he still reports to some degree.
Even if perhaps not to your own personal liking.

Some of the brightest most educated travel industry proffessors in leading business schools have opinions I don't always agree with.
But they educate and report to the industry,journalists and students year round.
Like to think at the end of the day we are all able to be bright enough to seperate most of the fact from fiction or gossip which usually comes with the territory and perhaps challenge all of each others viewpoints.