Skift Take
Carnival is evidently enlisting its friends in the media for its recovery tour, but it knows this is going to take a long time anyway.
For Carnival Corp., which is still struggling to recover from its Costa Concordia and Carnival Triumph debacles, it is nice to have friends in high-profile media roles.
Just consider today's spectacle on CBS This Morning where Peter Greenberg, the network's travel 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 (embedded below), Greenberg interviews Donald, and the journalist references the February 2013 Carnival 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:
"The good news with the Triumph is you got the fire out and nobody died."
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 like this:
"Not only did no one die, no one was h
