Paul Linnman, the intrepid TV news reporter behind the exploding whale video, retired from TV in 2004 and now works at Oregon radio station KEX. In a recent article, The Oregonian newspaper asked several well-known Oregonians, including Linnman, about their coffee habits. Linnman started his comments by saying:
I have only two remaining addictions: Coffee and [...]

TheExplodingWhale.com was mentioned in a recent article on the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper’s website. The article, titled Viral Videos: Spread of Internet video clips is catching, points to the infamous 1970 exploding whale video (which, of course, is the focus of this site) as an early example of a so-called “viral video.” The author [...]

The staff at the Somerset County Gazette newspaper in, of all places, Somerset County, England, decided to play an April Fool’s Day joke on their readers. They ran a fake article titled Beached whale draws crowds to Taunton park in which they claimed a whale, named “Gotcha” by locals, “tugged itself out of the water [...]