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/ 15 April 2008

Writer’s flights of fancy embarrass Lonely Planet

The language was hardly typical of the CEO of a respected travel-guide publisher. ”This is shit,” Lonely Planet chief executive Judy Slatyer wrote to employees. ”None of you deserve it, given the effort you put in.” The problem for Slatyer and her colleagues was what one of them described in another message as ”a car crash waiting to happen”.