15 April 2012

Mya Guarnieri and creative flying

The +972 journalist Mya Guarnieri, being an embedded reporter of the "flytilla" group reports from her front line position in Zurich, where she prepares to take a flight to Israel with some of the "activists". To save a piece of her reporting for posterity, I have made a snapshot (click to enlarge):

"...hundreds of flights scheduled to land in Israel Sunday have already been cancelled..." uhu. That in an airport that on a heavy traffic day receives somewhere between 300 and 400 incoming flights.

But then you can learn from the author's bio blurb that she got a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Florida State University.

Uhu...

P.S. She also refers to "reports in international and Israeli media". The link she gave doesn't refer to hundreds of canceled flights. Probably Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Florida State University doesn't include any reading comprehension courses. Too bad.

P.P.S. The author of that post doesn't see eye to eye with his elected government on the policy toward the "flytilla". Letting them display some histrionics in the streets of Tel Aviv and/or Jerusalem would have been a better way, in my humble. Still, reporting should be reporting and not a pre-sold crapola Ms Guarnieri serves in huge doses.

6 comments:

peterthehungarian said...

Probably Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Florida State University doesn't include any reading comprehension courses.

But Snoopy you don't get the math. She read let's say fifty reports in the Israeli and international media, everyone of them mentioned  an average five canceled flights. 50x5=250.
Voila - hundreds of flights.
Her alma mater maybe has a creative reading course - who knows?

SnoopyTheGoon said...

 Oh... yes, I see. I definitely didn't consider creative reading.

David All said...

Snoopy, I agree with you that it would have been better to let the activists into Israel and let them do whatever nonsense they planned; still not letting them in prevented more incidents like this one http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?ID=266135&R=R1  

Dick Stanley said...

Oh, well, laziness comes with the journalistic territory. I'm glad they weren't let in. Let them pull their nonsense somewhere else.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

No one said it is all a bed of roses...

SnoopyTheGoon said...

There are many problems with not letting them in, including a huge effort in locating and naming. Not sure it's worth the negative publicity.