Travel guru Arthur Frommer on that newspaper section: “The New York Times travel section has now plumbed such depths of absurdity that I, for one, have concluded that this senselessness can’t be accidental. The decision to sprinkle the pages of a travel section with references to sky-high travel offerings can only have come about from a directive from on high to do so. It must be part of an effort to attract advertising from the producers of luxury goods, unaffordable to most of us, from swank companies that want their ads to appear in a congenial environment. In writing as they do, I am now convinced that the travel writers and junior travel editors of the New York Times are attempting to execute a policy consciously set down by the Times.” [Frommers, via Jaunted]