I think the television coverage of this story has been comprehensive and fair.

To my knowledge, however, the print media coverage has been zero. True, living in the north I don't see a hard copy of the Mobile Press Registrar. But their website www.al.com has HAD NOTHING. Carneval's decision to change a Carribean cruise to Cozumel and/or Progresso into a "cruise to nowhere" circling the cold waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico is receiving no coverage in print down south from my understanding. With a lot of their readers taking the cruise to get away from the cold, don't their editors find this newsworthy?

Or is there an element of "boosterism" trumping "journalism" here? Getting a cruise ship based in Mobile was a big deal for tourism boosters. The city of Mobile built a parking structure. I believe state government paid for the cruise port facility. Mobile gets a cruise ship. New Orleans is losing theirs (Carnival is moving it to Mobile to replace the HOLIDAY when the Holiday is transferred to Costa Mediterranian Cruises in November).

But without media coverage, the passengers lose too --they lose their warm weather vacation, they lose what they paid their money for.