[Sunday 15 February: Apologies for the lack of posts last week - technical problems with Blogger at the office meant posts got written, just not posted...]Four hours in Dubai is apparently sufficient for arch-feminist and all-round lefty-meddler Germaine Greer to dismiss the entire emirate and all its dirty doings.
"After years of popping in and out of Dubai airport on my way to and from Australia, this time I deliberately managed my travel itinerary so that I had a long layover, four hours of which I spent on the open top of a double-decker bus," says Greer.
Her tour took her past well-known landmarks such as Deira City Centre, Wafi, the World Trade Centre, and something at the other end of town called "Dubai World".
We think she means "The World" - that surreal collection of artificial islands in the Gulf - but ol' Germaine has obviously grown a few dozen metres if she's able to see it from the top of a bus.
Unsurprisingly, Greer's conclusions are not at all flattering. More unfortunately, this example of yet more sloppy journalism does Greer a greater disservice than the city.
Seabee has recently carried a number of posts about the shocking standard of journalism ABOUT Dubai, rather than from it, and we can now add this gem to the myriad examples he lists.
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