The Royal Wedding

[biblemonkey]

Maybe I'm in the minority here and I know that I am just blowing off steam but I have a gripe. The royal wedding has been all anyone in the media can talk about for weeks and it's getting on my nerves. Now that it's over the news networks are spending hours analyzing it and talking about it after the fact. I have always had a code that I live by as far as celebrities are concerned; I don't know them, they don't know me, I wish them the best but I don't care about thier personal lives. I care about how they perform thier jobs be it music, acting, governing, ect. I don't need to know who's dating who, who's getting married, who's adopting what kid, or who got arrested. If it happened to someone in my own family, I would care but as it stands the royal family are complete strangers to me and I don't care about them any more or less than any other complete stranger. I wish them well. Now lets cover some REAL news you 24 hour media giants.

Thanks for letting me rant.

Hugh

[Chas]

Gosh Hugh - What real news have we missed?

Regards

Chas

[Andy Proffitt]

Gosh Hugh - What real news have we missed?

Regards

Chas

This is really the first thing that popped in my head. And then when I read a rant by Dan Rather about how irritated he was by the news coverage....well, you get the idea.

[biblemonkey]

Thanks for letting me get it off my chest guys. It has just become so sad that a once noble profession, journalism, has become so tabloid. It was like the other week when news over the civil unrest in Lybia was preempted by them going live to the beginning fo the Lindsay Lohan courtroom appearance. It just seems like they focus on news stories for only as long as they can make them seem juicy or scary and then when they wring the soul from a story they leave it's ruined carcass by the road and forget it ever happened even if it's still going on in favor of gossip or contrvied scandal. I know it's all a money game but I feel that journalists should be held to a higher standard than the almighty dollar. Once again thanks for the forum.

Hugh

[Kilted Magyar]

Hear-Here and amen, Biblemonkey. Well said.

[cormacmacguardhe]

I whole-heartedly concur.

[Chas]

I suppose it depends on where you are, but today, in the UK, there wasn't a bigger story. If American news channels report it, there is nothing I can do about that.

Regards

Chas

[xman]

Gosh Hugh - What real news have we missed?

Well here we're in the middle of the most important election of my lifetime and it got completely interrupted right before we vote on Monday. I sure could've done with less of the pomp and ceremony right now.

[Dixiecat]

Well here we're in the middle of the most important election of my lifetime and it got completely interrupted right before we vote on Monday. I sure could've done with less of the pomp and ceremony right now.

Don't worry. I'm sure we'll have another election soon. You'll be able to make up what you missed then.

[xman]

Don't worry. I'm sure we'll have another election soon.

Or not.