Your Bias or Mine?

 
The CNN headline this morning reads:

Bombs target U.S. military vehicles

Click the link and start to read the story:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Three separate bombings targeted U.S. military vehicles in Baghdad on Wednesday morning, but there were no immediate reports of American casualties.

Notice the good news, not evident from the headline, was that the bombers were not successful.

But one has to scroll down through acres of the standard MSM litany to find a paragraph just before the end of the story:

Coalition raids Tuesday kept up the pressure on the insurgency. The U.S. military said "initial reports indicate foreign terrorists, including at least one suicide bomber" were killed in a raid in al-Qaim, a western Iraqi town near the Syrian border. There have been two other raids over the past week in the al-Qaim area, which is in Anbar province. Coalition raids Tuesday kept up the pressure on the insurgency. The U.S. military said "initial reports indicate foreign terrorists, including at least one suicide bomber" were killed in a raid in al-Qaim, a western Iraqi town near the Syrian border. There have been two other raids over the past week in the al-Qaim area, which is in Anbar province.

I propose an alternate headline, based on the same raw data and drawn from the same news story:

US forces score successes against the terrorists in Iraq.