Telegraph: Only the Japanese didn't go wild about our Willy
As the whale swam up the Thames, the story flew around the world from New York to New Zealand. The Canadian press described it as "a whale of a tale", while the Washington Post called it a "seven-ton splash in the Thames". According to the New York Times it "raised the eyebrows of even the most jaded Londoners"...In Japan, one of the few countries that still hunts whales, the coverage was, perhaps not surprisingly, muted, consisting largely of short news items and pictures of the whale near the Houses of Parliament. Perhaps the presence of a harpoon might have stimulated more interest...more...
Scandalously, the story of the Thames whale also failed to make it onto FG...
