At times like these, when it seems that incidents of seafarers being captured for ransom are happening every few days, the media face a dilemma: to say little or nothing about the incident - and thus starve the pirates of the 'oxygen of publicity", as former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher once said in relation to Irish terrorists - or relay what little information is available, perhaps leading to wild speculation. Fairplay's policy is to verify as much detail as possible, via the International Maritime Bureau and other sources, and we believe that our reporting on such incidents does not go beyond what is known to be true. And other specialised shipping media will be doing the same.
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