Lynn, there is a big difference in newsworthiness between the incidents on the Star and Crown, where there were terrified passengers and injuries, and what happened on the Mariner.

I was on the Mariner and passengers brought up whether our plight would make the news. There is just not a lot of news interest in luxury cruise passengers who are inconvenienced by having to spend an extra day on the ship.

I know a few of you have expressed opinions about the way the two stories on the fired Muslim crew members were written. Actually, the second story is not slanted against the cruise line. It is just written in a different way to grab the reader's attention. The facts in the two stories are the same.

Let's say, for example, the cruise industry studies websites and ranks LCT as the best. You could write "The cruise industry today released its study of websites and ranked Luxury Cruise Talk as the best one." Or you could write, "Luxury Cruise Talk is the best cruise website in the business, according to a study by the cruise industry." That's all those two stories were doing. Thanks. Tom.