A Times article reports that the BBC is selling the Lonely Planet travel guides to "a reclusive American billionaire," Brad M. Kelley.
"Reclusive billionaire" is one of those stereotypes that the Times likes to use even if it isn't accurate.
My authoritative Webster's Second Unabridged dictionary describes reclusive as someone living in reclusion, in "solitary confinement" or "secluded" from the world like a "monk or hermit."
But journalists now use the word to describe any rich person who doesn't drop everything and rush to the phone whenever a reporter calls. Any rich person who is any less receptive to press inquiries than Donald Trump or Senator Charles Schumer is routinely described as "reclusive," even if the person has friends and business colleagues and an active family or social life.
Other billionaires the Times has described as reclusive include Woody Johnson, Larry Ellison, Huguette Clark, Edmond Safra, Ira Rennert, Stephen Feinberg, and Steven Cohen. If you grant the Times enough interviews, it will describe you as "once-reclusive."
When people put an adjective together with a group for racial or religious groups, the Times is quick to condemn. Billionaires, though, seem to be acceptable targets for such treatment by the Times itself. When you read "reclusive billionaire," think, "lazy, biased, inaccurate journalist."