Disneyland: To Click-Bait or Not To Click-Bait
If you read the various new stories, blogs, Facebook or watch various YouTube channels, the impression is that Disneyland is closed.
Or, in other words, the sky is falling.
Despite Disney producing it’s own version of the Chicken Little tale in animated (yes, CGI format) film a few years back, fans of the company’s theme parks want to believe the stories about their beloved place above all else. Well, Agent Mulder notwithstanding, it is a gigantic case of “If it’s on the Internet, it must be true.”
To make a long story short, “No.”
This certainly is not the first, nor will it be the last time that Disney takes what used to be the off season in Anaheim to close various sections of the parks, et al to complete work of a serious nature. Yes, everything from north of Tiana’s Palace to the Hungry Bear make be closed off behind construction walls. But that hardly makes Disneyland closed to the public. The opposite is quite true as Disneyland is managing quite well to entertain guests every day from open to close.
It used to be that the idea was to generate interest by sharing something new and different when it came to “The Happiest Place On Earth”. Plenty of scoops to be shared with the latest and greatest back in the day. And while folks producing content may not have been quite so hyper focused on every single click on their product, there was a sense of getting things correct. As some in the newspaper game once observed, get it first but get it right. Today’s click-bait headline hunters seem more interested in getting as many clicks as possible instead of producing correct informational content. If you can spin a tale to enflame the passions of the faithful, don’t get left in the dust as the herd stampedes along the information super highway in search of fodder worth digestion. Facts are such nuisances.
Meanwhile, back at the Park… grab that box of popcorn, your favorite beverage of choice and just settle in to watch as things move along. Eventually, projects do get completed.
What time is the three o’clock parade?