This
blog will analyze all of my research sources.
1
Title,
author & host of source
Sea
World
The
source’s author(s)
The
author is not specifically stated on the website. The unknown author does use
hyperlinks to outside sources to back their supposed facts.
"Here's
the truth:
The
target audience for the source
This
target audience is "Blackfish" viewers. We can tell by how the
website is structured and literally being titled "The Truth About
Blackfish".
"Why
'Blackfish' is Propaganda not a Documentary"
The
source’s main purpose or message
The
purpose is to rebut the movie "Blackfish".
"We
object to 'Blackfish' because its two central premises are wrong"
"the
film conveys falsehoods"
Any
important contextual details
"And the collections four decades ago were conducted in
compliance with federal laws, pursuant to federally-issued permits at that
time"
"The
film relies on former SeaWorld employees, most of whom have little experience
with killer whales, and others who haven’t worked at SeaWorld in nearly 20
years"
2
Title,
author & host of source
Blackfish
Gabriela
Cowperthwaite
The
source’s author(s)
The
target audience for the source
General Public.
"But as I moved forward, I knew that we had a
chance to fix some things that had come unraveled along the way"
The
source’s main purpose or message
Inform
the general public about Sea World's practices.
Any
important contextual details
Another
contribution source.
3
Title,
author & host of source
The
Killer in the Pool
Tim
Zimmermann
The
source’s author(s)
"I
am a Washington-DC based writer, interested in politics, history and adventure.
I am a Correspondent
for Outside magazine, Associate Producer and
Co-Writer of the documentary
Blackfish, a former Senior Editor and Diplomatic Correspondent
for US News & World Report, and author of The Race (Houghton
Mifflin, 2002)." source
The
target audience for the source
The
general public.
"In 1972, the Marine Mammal Protection Act
prohibited the taking of marine mammals in U.S. waters, but SeaWorld continued
to receive killer whale capture permits under an educational-display
exclusion." uses facts to back information.
The
source’s main purpose or message
The
articles purpose is to inform people on the life of killer whales at Sea World.
"Yet
no matter how nice the facility, there's stress associated with being a big
mammal in a relatively small pool. "
"Many
of his teeth were so worn and broken that SeaWorld vets decided to drill some
of them so they could be regularly irrigated with antiseptic solution"
Any
important contextual details
"SeaWorld's Fred Jacobs responds, "Witness
accounts support that conclusion, and we have no reason to doubt it." he
interviews Sea World employees
"Every safety protocol that we have
failed," SeaWorld director of animal training Kelly Flaherty Clark told me
a month after the incident, her voice still tight with emotion. "That's
why we don't have our friend anymore, and that's why we are taking a step
back." he has quotes from the director
4
Title,
author & host of source
SeaWorld
Various
The
source’s author(s)
53
sited sources
The
target audience for the source
Public
with access to an internet capable device
it
is a website.
The source’s main purpose or message
Purpose is to provide information on SeaWorld's
background.
"There are operations in Orange County,
Florida; San Diego,
California; San Antonio, Texas;
and previously Aurora, Ohio"
"Opened March 21, 1964; 52 years ago,
Ohio"
Any important contextual details
"In 2016, SeaWorld announced that they would end
their in-park breeding programs, and eventually phase out their killer whale
shows altogether"
"HISTORY"
5
Title,
author & host of source
Opinion:
SeaWorld vs. the Whale that Killed its Trainer
Kenneth
Brower
The source’s author(s)
"He is best known for his many books about
the environment, national parks, and natural places, many of them in hundreds
of libraries and by major publishers, including several titles in the series The Earth's
Wild Places published by the Friends
of the Earth in the 1970s"
The
target audience for the source
Blackfish
viewers and non the general public.
"Watch the television premiere of
"Blackfish," Thursday, October 24, at 9 p.m. EST on CNN."
"Blackfish and
its themes set me to thinking again about Orcinus orca, the killer
whale, the sea's supreme predator, and our strange, ambivalent view of this
animal and the narratives we impose on it."
The
source’s main purpose or message
Another
point of view of the SeaWorld controversy
"SeaWorld's Letter of Denial"
"The Veterinarian's Role"
Any
important contextual details
"Reading
the autopsy report, I suddenly remembered—and then could not forget—several
seconds of chilling documentary footage shot at Punta Valdez in Argentina"
"Psychotic,"
orca researcher Ken Balcomb, of Washington State, says in aBlackfish interview,
searching for a word to describe how Tilikum came out of this experience"
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