Looking for some decent news to critique, I came across the CNN.com report by Barbara Starr, "Captain Tried to Escape Pirates, U.S. Official Says." Easy. I was reading that story the moment I read "Pirates."
The attacks along the African coast are not news to me and I realize that pirates are still operating heavily in the Indian Ocean, but I still get more excited to read this story than one about Obama's greeting the Saudi King or even the Michigan shooting. Traditional sea-faring pirates just don't dock in America that much anymore, and in our cinema and literature we are still obsessing over them. I think we may actually miss them somehow.
This is why I believe we can find these pirating stories at the top of news sites and on the front of newspapers. Catching American readers' attention with pirates as bait is like shooting fish in a barrel (sorry). Congratulations to Ms. Starr and her golden goose.
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