SeaWorld’s Unusual Retort to a Critical Documentary

SeaWorld Entertainment began an aggressive public pushback against the new documentary “Blackfish,” which makes the case that orca whales in captivity suffer physical and mental distress.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/business/media/seaworlds-unusual-retort-to-a-critical-documentary.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

SeaWorld Entertainment startled the film world last weekend by sending a detailed critique of the movie to about 50 critics who were presumably about to review it. It was among the first steps in an aggressive public pushback against the film, which makes the case, sometimes with disturbing film, that orca whales in captivity suffer physical and mental distress because of confinement