The Tale of Two Blogs

On Wednesday of this week Dawn Brancheau, a whale trainer with Sea World, was working with Tillikum, a killer whale. Tillikum grabbed either her braid or her arm (reports vary) and dragged her under water while trashing with her. She died due to the attack. I decided to look at how the Sea World blog and the blog Anything Hollywood looked at this indecent. The Sea World blog had a very short entry about Dawn with a few short comments from her family and a link to the Orlando Sentinel's report of her death. Anything Hollywood's coverage of this consisted of a very brief mention of Dawn and focused on the history of Tillikum and his "violent past". I find that both blog posts leaves something to be desired, I would have liked a description of what happened on the Sea World blog and I would have liked to have seen less sensationalize on the Anything Hollywood blog.