[Star Traveler]

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.

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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?

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

[hoosiermama]

Apparently (from various sources), We tried to trade the pirate we were holding for the captain of the ship. The pirates reneged......They are now on a life raft as the pirate boats were sunk.

US Navy ships and aircraft are on the way....should be there soon

[BagCamAddict]

You said: “I don?t figure on ever getting the full story until a few days has passed...”

Then WHY are you even on a BREAKING NEWS thread in the first place?? Why don’t you spend your time on the “48-hour Old News” threads and leave threads like this alone?

And regarding your statement that unless something has backup, it’s bogus: So if a FReeper is an eye-witness to a murder of 10 people and posts here from his Blackberry while hiding in the attic, you’re going to call him a liar, say he made it up, and that it’s a hoax, and tell the Admin Moderators to delete or lock the thread until YOU can read it on the CBS website, which will be 5 hours later, after the perpetrator has held law enforcement at bay for a few hours and after all of the next of kin of the dead have been notified... But even after YOU “verify” it by seeing it on the CBS website (which will not get the facts right anyway), you will still not apologize to the original poster, right? Of course not. You don’t have it in you.