Good for AP for staffing the Int’l Whaling Commission meeting in Morocco, and good on reporter Arthur Max for putting together a breaking news story on the dramatic non-result with a story that has muscle, news, historic perspective, and emotion.

It looks as though Max is having a tough time keeping personal feelings under cover. As in the lede, where he says the IWC failed to stem the quasi-legal whaling of Japan in particular, allowing its ships to keep harpooning away, “even raiding a marine sanctuary in Antarctic waters unchecked.” The verb “to raid” does not radiate neutrality toward such behavior.

Other stories filed from the meeting:

• Reuters – Tom Pfeiffer, Christian Lowe: Whaling moratorium talks break down ;
  
• BBC – Richard Black: Hopes fade of compromise over whaling;
• AFP - Whaling ban must stay, say 200 scientists ; One is a bit unsure how many delegates are scientists – except some of the kind of course that do scientific whaling wink wink.

Other (merely) sad whale news:

• AP: Stranded Danish whale dies ;

- Charlie Petit

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