tend not to like when the media get a hold of incidents at Disney because they give them unfair exposure. If a man died in the parking lot of a Publix there's no way that that would make the national news. Yet if a man died on main street because of the same ailment you can bet that it would make the news for two or three days- and there would probably be a lawsuit too. Sorry for the rant but I get extremely annoyed at the unfairness the media shoes Disney (and other large brands as well but since I happen to like Disney it annoys me even more.
But what you have to understand is that the more high profile a person or a place is, the more newsworthy things become that happen to that person or at that place.
For example, President George HW Bush vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister and it made national news. If I vomited on someone, it wouldn't even make local news, unless I did it on purpose and it was featured as a police report. Or if I vomited on a well known official, like the Sherriff or the Mayor or something.
Similarly, people die every day and, as you say, it doesn't make national news. But Disney World is a very high profile place. It is a place of interest and things like that that happen at WDW are very much a newsworthy story, like it or not. There's no conspiracy against Disney in the media. It's just simply a matter of a world famous vacation destination where millions of families go a year, as well as celebreties, and as such, when someone dies there, it gets recognition. You can't possibly think that when a death takes place at such a high profile place as WDW that it should receive the same recognition as a death that takes place at the local Cracker Barrel (which would be local coverage only). It's comparing apples and oranges. As a citizen, I realize that deaths occurr all over the country every day. I don't need to know about every person who keels over from a heart attack in every state every day. But when someone dies at a place like Disney World, or Six Flags, yes, I'm interested. Because it's something of interest, worth reporting on.
I have no bias against WDW...I love going there. But I also think it is very fitting that a death there should receive some coverage, since it is such a well known and high profile place. Again, no conspiracy. No sinister plots to discredit the Disney company. Just good reporting.
