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Just consider today's spectacle on CBS This Morning where Peter Greenberg , the network's travel cheap hotels las vegas editor, leads Carnival Corp.'s new and obviously tone-deaf CEO, Arnold Donald , on what can only be seen as a public relations recovery tour for Carnival's brands.
In the TV segment cheap hotels las vegas (embedded below), Greenberg interviews Donald, and the journalist references the February 2013 Carnival cheap hotels las vegas Triumph incident, which saw an engine room fire that left thousands of passengers and crew adrift in the Gulf of Mexico for days without power, saying:
Donald, a Carnival board member who took on the CEO role a couple of months ago when Micky Arison was kicked upstairs and retained his chairman's position, incredibly characterizes the Carnival Triumph incident cheap hotels las vegas like this :
Donald should try that line out with passengers on what came to be known as the "poop cruise" as they were "using mobile phones to convey tales of carpets soaked in urine and passengers cheap hotels las vegas sleeping in tents on deck."
Donald's statement cheap hotels las vegas that there were no systemic or safety problems cheap hotels las vegas with the Carnival Triumph flies in the face of what Greenberg touts as Carnival's $600 million fleetwide refurbishment project to install backup generators, and make fire safety and other enhancements.
In addition, perhaps Donald hasn't caught cheap hotels las vegas up on his background reading yet. The Coast Guard report on a November 2010 Carnival Splendor fire found lapses in that ship's engine, electrical, drainage, fire-safety and training systems, and concluded that all of Carnival's Dream-class ships were similarly vulnerable.
In fact, Greenberg doesn't challenge Donald on much else, either, and accompanies the CEO through various Carnival operational facilities designed to show that the ships and brands have been righted.
In so doing, Greenberg glosses over Carnival's serial blunders, including those involving the Costa Concordia , the Carnival Splendor and the Carnival Triumph , and really that's just to mention a few of them.
Greenberg does reference the fact that the Carnival incidents cheap hotels las vegas have not only hurt Carnival, but have adversely impacted the entire cruise industry, and that Donald's role now is to reposition cheap hotels las vegas the Carnival cheap hotels las vegas brands and to fill ships.
"At this time, cumulative advance bookings for the remainder of 2013 are behind the prior year at prices below the prior year levels. Since the end of March, fleetwide booking volumes for the next three quarters, excluding Carnival Cruise Lines, are running higher than the prior year at higher cheap hotels las vegas prices. Booking cheap hotels las vegas volumes for Carnival Cruise Lines during the same period are running behind the prior year at lower prices. "
Although Greenberg certainly has reported on some of the cruise lines' recent transgressions, cheap hotels las vegas he's come to their defense both in the Donald interview, and recently on his own website, and in social media.
In early August, PeterGreenberg.com ran a piece from Ross Klein of CruiseJunkie.com on What the Cruise Industry Isn't Telling You: Crime Stats Explored , an article contending that the cruise lines, in newly reporting onboard crime, are trying to minimize cheap hotels las vegas the problems.
A few days later, PeterGreenberg.com ran the cruise industry's answer to Klein in a piece, What the Cruise Industry IS Telling You About Allegations of Crime , from Cruise Lines International Association's (CLIA) CEO Christine Duffy .
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