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To: Star Traveler
You really cannot depend on anything you hear in the first few hours. It’s always got something wrong...

But you also may not be able to depend on stories written after there has been time to get the "spin" out to the newsies.

724 posted on 04/08/2009 2:48:45 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

You said — But you also may not be able to depend on stories written after there has been time to get the “spin” out to the newsies.

I have to catch up on the reading of the news on it right now, since I’ve been out and around. I just got back.

BUT, the first thing I picked up when I got back, was that there are still pirates holding someone. Now, first I was hearing that everyone was rescued and now that I get back, I hear that someone is being held hostage. So, I don’t even know what the true story is, at this point in time.

I would give it somewhere about 24-48 hours for the story to be fully put together, assuming that the whole thing is actually over (but the hostage crisis may not be over). And then I would give it a *week* for an “in-depth” story to come out and really get down to the details of what happened.

I don’t figure on ever getting the full story until a few days has passed...

What do you know of the status of the hostages at this point in time? Do you know something about it, like is there still a hostage being held, are the pirates (or pirate, or whatever) still there?

Anyway, I’ll be following up on the story later on in the day and into the evening to find out these things.


726 posted on 04/08/2009 2:52:56 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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