Oh, this was actually a fun disaster compared to almost anything else!
If only we could live in a world where the worst international news story is a big boat being temporarily stuck with people making silly memes about it.
The company tasked to salvage the ship said that they will use dredgers and tugs and will try to pull the ship free. They also said that if that doesn't work they will have to lighten the ship, which can take weeks.
After that it was entirely fair and true to report that "it might take weeks to get the ship unstuck." Just because we got lucky and the simpler, faster, plan worked doesn't make such reporting hyperbolic.
I, for one, was thankful that we had something relatively non-polarizing in the news to discuss. "Stuck boat needs to get unstuck" is the kind of practical problem that people on both sides of the fence can agree on :)
My local newspaper's comments has people who think the boat's name is Evergreen, not Ever Given ("haha stupid media can't even get that right") and that it's a reference to Hillary Clinton's Secret Service code name and that Means Something™. (https://imgur.com/a/1CjsCsl)
The word "EVERGREEN" is painted on the side of the boat about 400 feet long and maybe 60 feet tall. I think it's fair to misinterpret that as the name of the boat, and not the name of the company that owns the boat. Especially so because the two names are so similar.
