got this right as an educated guess because mirroring is the industry accepted 'easier' to set up, and as the new kid on the block is seen as better.

However as GUIs are available to set up both mirroring and log shipping I'm not sure there is anything in it especially when you start considering the choices to be made in mirroring about high performance or high safety, using SNAC and setting up a witness server.

Log shipping remains the easiest to understand and troubleshoot and that goes along way to making it easier to administer. Its down to which method suits your recovery requirements best.

I am also surprised almost as many people have answered transactional replication as log shipping. I would never use replication for DR. Its for scale-out. Too restrictive in that the DB has to fulfill certain design requirements and you dont get all changes made to the database copied.