I feel as if the news is force feeding me this whole wedding thing, about every 10 minutes on every channel I hear something about "William and Kate".
Royalty is self-proclaimed bull****, so why does the news highlight them as actually being special..
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
The core premise of your post is completely wrong, unless you're posting from some sort of prison with your eyelids propped open where you also have access to the Internet and can post freely. So no, you aren't being force fed anything by the media. Plain and simple.
But anyway, it's not as if you watch much news as it is.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
In his defense, if you DO follow any of the major news outlets, it's rather hard to avoid having "news about "William and Kate" shoved down your throat.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I do, and I haven't heard much about it because when they start talking about it I change the channel.
Posted by Shanna (Member # 7900) on :
I'd say that "force fed" is a strong word, but dodging the wedding nonsense is starting to become exhausting. Having to constantly change the channel or having to avoid news-related websites. I work in a bookstore so every morning I open several boxes full of books and magazines about the Royal Wedding. The day we got "Royal Wedding for Dummies" the entire store had a good, long laugh.
It reminds me of the year when that stupid "Whazzup?" commercial became so famous. People were quoting it for months after it had stopped becoming funny. It seemed like you couldn't get away from it. And I couldn't understand why so many people were so obsessed with it.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
Ironically, it doesn't seem to be a very big story here in Canada. Between the Canadian election and the murder of the Chinese visa student, outlets like the CBC, the Toronto Star, and The Globe and Mail either don't have it or are running it very low priority.
Al-jazeera definitely doesn't have it either, so its clear sailing for me.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
royal fever is like the third dumbest thing in the world. It's like fever for celebrities who are celebrities for virtue of being related to a public office and stature inherited by birth, which is the second dumbest thing in the world.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
*british monarchy gives a load of titles to inheritors of peerage*
*literally runs out of named portions of land to associate titles with*
*makes up ones, so they can fit someone in as baron or viscout here and there, or be the Duke of Doesntexistfordshire-by-the-sea*
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
I'm idly considering attending the Wedding (that is, going into London and standing in a very large crowd), but not for the joy of seeing the wedding. I think it would just make for a good life experience and excellent crowd photographs.
Although it sounds like the wedding stuff is more avoidable here than it is over there, oddlly. Probably because I don't get a 24 news channel. They'll have a brief mention, and then move on to Libya.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
God Save the Queen! I like the Monarchy.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
Hmmm, out of idle curiosity, I did a comparison between the leading news sources in Canada versus CNN, highlighting the news related to the wedding in red.
The weird part is that The Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail only have small text headlines relating to the wedding and they are pretty low priority. The CBC has the most with two articles on royal history.
However, when you go to CNN International and see, presumably what Americans think foreigners are interested in, there are three articles with pictorial links and a full section of seven articles relating to the wedding. The lead articles are still having to do with Libya and the conflict in Africa though.
Go to the US version of CNN and the royal wedding story is now the top story with the largest picture.
It seems to me that CNN really does think that Americans are more interested in the wedding than Canadian news thinks Canadians are. *shrug*
The idea that Americans are oddly fascinated by royalty has been around for quite a while.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I love the coverage. I like clothes, and I am thoroughly enjoying the many, many clueless speculations about the dress.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
My parents have two ducks living in a pond in their backyard. My mother named them William and Kate.
I think it's kind of charming.
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
Doesn't every adolescent girl pretend to be a princess?
As Americans we lack royalty, and as bastard step child of Briton, I see nothing wrong with the love of the Royals...even if I don't share it.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :