Pilot Returns Home to a Hero’s Welcome
When I read this article about the pilot who had safely landed an airplane holding over 150 people in the Hudson River because of engine problems, I was glad to see that the journalist was able to show the reader just how low-key and modest he actually is. But, I did notice a few things about his writing that really opened my eyes. While I was reading, I noticed that there wasn't too many quotes in the article, but then at the end there was four quotes in a row. I thought it was odd that the author put them altogether instead of spreading them throughout his article. The quotes were also all from adults and parents. The journalist could have varied the people he got his quotes from by adding opinions of younger people. Also, the quotes all had the same general idea- that the incident was 'never-before-seen' and totally shocking. The journalist could have gotten quotes from passengers on the plane that would have made the reader have a personal connection to the story. I also thought that the paragraph "Standing erect in a dark suit, gray shirt and tie....while their two daughters watched from the front row" could have been placed a lot sooner in the article, because I thought that it was able to show right off the bat that the pilot was a normal guy with a family, that was able to make a difference and save many lifes. I got the impression from the article, that that is what he was trying to show the reader, and I think that if he placed this sooner in the article he would be able to get his point across sooner.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/nyregion/25pilot.html?fta=y
3 comments:
I totally agree with you! I didn't like having all of the quotes at the end of the article. And the quotes the journlaist did use to put in were pointless. One particularly pointless quote was, "Deborah Eusebio, 39, went to the ceremony with her three children because, she said, 'There is so much bad going on, it’s good to have something good going on.'" There really wasn't much substance to this quote, and it added nothing to the article.
I agree with everything you said about this article. I saw the pilot on an interview yesterday, and that interview accurately portrayed him and allowed me to make a more personal connection to him; basically, I learned a lot more about him from the interview than this article. I feel that the journalist should have included more personable quotes to better reflect the pilot's personality.
Me 3! I tottaly agree with what all of you have said. The quotes at thte end were not confusing when reading it but confusing when your a journalist and you look at his setup and think "what was he trying to do?" I also agree with what Megan said. I would like to have seen more quotes from the pilot to portray who he is as a person and how he feels.
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