Is this not an old ruse?
1. Make disparaging comments about somewhere in your newspaper/magazine column
2. Get a few inches in the local press.
3. Local Mayor/Chamber of Commerce/Businessmen invite you to the town "to see for yourself what a great place it is"
4. Arrive, have a free lunch and then say ok, the town is not that bad after all.
More publicity for the journalist and his column.
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