ok a serious "answer"-- thanks to campaigns by the WWF, Greenpeace, etc, we have this notion of whales as ambassadors form the ocean or something-- which i truly think it's great.
i also think it's great the whale was saved-- consider the stench otherwise!
but the 5hours of TV news it's because, thanks to those campaigns mentioned above, saving a whale is just a notch below saving Mickey Mouse. free willy!
anyway, wtf are you doing watching tv news?
