Monday, June 01, 2009

Egypt and its Media

While everyone is reporting about the catastrophe of Air France's A330 flight that has vanished earlier today, reporting that it has 228 people.
"Passenger jet carrying 228 people disappears off coast of Brazil, airline says" CNN
Egyptian Media as usual astonishes me, here is what Masrawy reported:
باريس (ا ف ب) - اكدت شركة الخطوط الجوية الفرنسية (اير فرانس) الاثنين فقدان طائرة قادمة من ريود دي جانيرو الى باريس وعلى متنها 216 راكبا.
Masrawy

Someone may notice the difference in numbers 228 (CNN) and the 216(Masrawy). This is not a mistake, its true that the flight carried only 216 passengers (that is what egypt would care about), but the crew of the flight is 12 (Apparently, those are not important enough to the Egyptian media).

This is not the first time I notice something like this.

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