On Saturday, an Italian cruise liner was attacked by Somali pirates. The would-be hijackers, however, were repelled by the ship's private armed security detail, which hails from Israel.

Well, today blogger Don Surber noted how the BBC is leaving out the nationality of the security crew by inaccurately attributing the "crew" of the Melody with fending off the attack. Far from being an insignificant detail, an executive with the cruise line  that hired the crew praised them as the best in the private security business, reported the Associated Press.  From Surber's blog:

Given that it's Halloween, we can't let the day go by without noting the ghoulish MSM habit of burying good news from the Iraq War.

Blogger Don Surber noticed the latest such example with the October 31 edition of the Washington Post:

Winning the war is ho-hum

Stories the Washington Post thought were more important than “Attacks in Iraq Continue to Decline”

I wrote about this last night, but it still bugs me that the Washington Post put on Page 14 today: “Attacks in Iraq Continue to Decline.”