Well this is interesting... there’s no verification of the report that the ship itself has gotten underway again, or the other report that the owner was paying a ransom. It’s the old ‘fog of breaking news’ bit again.
Sometimes I think the MSM just charts out all the possible permutations of these stories, then just goes down the list reporting all of them. The New Jersey incident, where we went from “assault rifle” to “high powered rifle”, to “automatic pistol”, to “semi-auto pistol” is a case in point. Bet they were getting really nervous when they realized “slingshot” was the only thing they had left on the list.
Kinda like this one, “can’t talk now, we’re surrounded by warships”.
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN09295199