Where was the media when Monty Python was depicting Princess Margaret as being twelve feet tall?

it was on in the middle of the night there, wasn’t it? was it really that big of a deal to cover it?

since the kiss ended, FOX has been covering the tornadoes in great detail, and did non-stop last night too, from what i saw.

i don’t think the wedding is the problem.

i think it is all the other crap like race card this, and race card that, and birther this, and trump that. the wedding is historical. This crap and the failure of the MSM to cover, question and hold Obama accountable is the real scam.

Ummm what a party pooper.

Fox went straight to news without the long procession after the event. It was CNN and MSNBC that didn’t.

Surprisingly, it was E! that put on the best show.

Fake and phony lefty media despises everything about this Royal Wedding!
But for ratings they will sell their soul!!!

Kill your television!

Why would anyone want to marry into such a snobbish egotistical family?

The Royal Wedding and the devastating tornadoes have both been covered extensively, and neither is more important than the other because they’re apples & oranges. Sara’s right; the wedding is incredibly historical and important on a global scale.

If the criteria you use to determine how important a news story is and whether it deserves coverage are: A. A significant number of Americans have to be interested in it, and B. stories with gore trump all others, then Nancy Grace is the only journalist worth a damn.

That’s not a rule of thumb I would recommend using.

Colorado_Conservative said:
Why would anyone want to marry into such a snobbish egotistical family?

the crown jewels!

jk! hehe

I think Harry and William seem very down to earth and laid back. I think the Royals have loosened up a lot over the last 30 years. I think Diana had a lot to do with that, through her life, and death.

Don Imus’ brother Fred was hoping Kate would change her mind at the last minute and marry Dale,Jr .

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4668824/fred-imus-take-on-the-royal-wedding/

Laurie Beth said:
Sara’s right; the wedding is incredibly historical and important on a global scale.

and who doesn’t love a happy ending?

you can’t do negative and tragic 24/7. We need some good news. And there hasn’t been a lot lately.

Have you seen that new babe on Camelot? Holy sh**!

Turn it off if you don’t like the coverage, sheesh. I really wasn’t watching but it’s not your typical Friday morning affair. Let them have their fun. It was a few hours – no big deal as far as I’m concerned.

Of course I love the joy of this day for them. However, it’s not even so much that we need to be cheered up, because it’s not the responsibility of news to be entertainment or to make us feel better. It’s that to do negative and tragic stories 24/7, as you describe, provides an inaccurate picture of the world.

There is extreme joy and extreme excess; there is also pain, devastation and death. It’s all happening at the same time, and media should be a microcosm of that. If it isn’t, then it isn’t showing us what’s truly going on.

Yes, it’s jarring to switch back and forth from a ritzy wedding to devastation. We should feel that uncomfortable more often, because it’s honest. It’s facing what’s really happening in our world.

(Sorry, Sara, I meant to address that to you–I’ve been awake for awhile. :-P)

“appalling” Hmm, just a little hyperbole going on here. Well, looking forward to more what’s up with Sarah Palin and Donald Trump stories from Mediaite later in the day.

You’re all missing the most important part about all of this. Even with all the wealth and noteriety Prince William has: THERE IS NO CURE FOR BALDNESS. :(

I thought it was interesting and very entertaining to watch. The dresses, the hats, the pomp and circumstance. Why not? Why is this appalling? It’s tradition and history.

Princess Diana, Kate Beckinsale, Lenora Critchlow, Eva Green, Elizabeth Hurley…..they do turn out some fine looking women.

I watched The Office finale. Not perfect, but faaaar more entertaining.

Colorado_Conservative said:
Why would anyone want to marry into such a snobbish egotistical family?

why not??

Here’s why it don’t mattle, No didsrespect to Kate. But she’s no Diana. She has a lng way to go to show that. I wish them well. I don’t understand why MSNBC had Morning Joe anchoring the wedding. Only for the fact they spent the last year and half making fun of the Royal wedding. Hvaing them there made them look like hypirrects. You made fun if this for a year. Now you want to acnhor this. Chris Janisn and Martin Basher were going to be the mane one acnhoring the wedding. Only thing I can think is they pushed themseves on the this due to backstage potilcs or Pill Griffn told them to do to.Thinking they were going to get some big ratings out of it.I did notice Martin didn’t come back after Joe went off. But for the ratings i;ve seen all week of all the networks. The rating were donw nobody really cares about the wedding in genarl. It should be interresting to see the ratings for the wedding.

“it’s doubtful that Kate Middleton will ever get to Princess Di status.”

Um, Diana will never make it to Queen. On the other hand, very likely will. So the above comment is pre-mature at best. One never can predict the future, and a journo is fool-hardy to even try.

Hey Colby, you sound like you think the media news bureaus are some sort of public service. That went out a long time ago. They are parts of corporations. They exist to make a profit. Not to keep you up to date on the corners of the Earth. So what is more profitable; that is, what do people want to see more, and therefore will let you sell more comercials; Some indepth report on the politics of a third world country or the pomp and circumstance surrounding a royal wedding? The royal wedding, of course!

And yes. I watched parts of it too. Best wishes William and Cate!

LMFAO@Colby:

CARNEY: OBAMA WATCHED ROYAL WEDDING COVERAGE

KirbbDogg2000 said:
Here’s why it don’t mattle, No didsrespect to Kate. But she’s no Diana. She has a lng way to go to show that..

No, she isn’t Diana. She probably is more stable and more than likely will become queen. Unlike Diana. People forget that yes, Diana is a tragic figure, but a real fucked-up figure, too.

My wife and I watched Charles & Diana’s wedding via “The Today Show” and in the wee hours of this Midwestern morning, my wife and daughter got up extra early for William & Kate’s and I’d occasionally sit with them. Though I didn’t vote on the station and they were in charge of the remote, I noticed that they also watched this wedding via NBC.

An argument could certainly be made that the news channels didn’t need to be involved, but CNN has a global footprint and I believe Murdoch’s SkyTV controlled the pool cameras, so it’d makes sense for News to want to maximize their investment.

Also and this may seem a little callous, but the tornadoes happened. Federal assistance is being administered and the people who were directly affected by the storms are watching their local affiliates for pertinent information. I’ve been through several natural disasters myself and though national coverage is nice, it’s the local stations that gives the information that one needs in these kinds of events.

They know where the water, shelter and emergency kitchens are located. They’re the ones who can help people navigate around the destruction and they help get people and supplies to where they’re needed. Whether or not some person in California can see a human interest story about a family that lost everything may help with lobbying for future assistance, but it doesn’t directly have any bearing on the lives of those in the area and while I don’t know, I suspect the Alabama affiliates weren’t showing the wedding on their main channel, instead it was likely relegated to one of their digital subs.

I know, Colby, we should all be tuned into MSNBC or reading your crap on Mediaite.

@ AngelPeters

I met as far as what Diana met to the world and her Icon statis. Kate does have a long way to go. Some peolpe thing that she;s the next diana. Being Queen ws too good for Dinna anyway. Oh and by the way I made a mistake Martin did come back after Morning Joe went off the air,

The best coverage was on the BBC- very respectful and even commenting that from a British perspective it is nice to have a day when cynicism and politics give way to joy. Many in GB look upon this wedding as a bit of closure to the legacy of Princess Di’s boys to ensure that they turned out all right and grew into gentlemen she would be proud of. From the genuine smiles and relaxed atmosphere (despite millions watching) I say they (and she) succeeded.

AngelPeters said:
“it’s doubtful that Kate Middleton will ever get to Princess Di status.”

I’m not sure where you got that quote from, but Kate can thank her lucky stars for that!!!

Seems to be the same way the Mainstream Media covered Obama’s election here!

What’s the problem?
Doesn’t the “ProtectObama” Media view him as a god anymore?

These media whores are more propagandists than reporters.

btw, Goldman Sachs & their bff’s on Wall Street = RECORD BONUSES!
Black communities = Inordinate hardship under slow recovery.

But you black voters keep voting for this corrupt Hugo-wannabee…SUCKERS!

NORBIT Jr. said:
What’s the problem?

maybe he’s just cranky because obama wasn’t invited, so therefore it’s not worth covering? haha

I don’t understand what the big deal is… I had no interest in it at all, but I know billions of others did. And what would the morning shows be covering instead of this (other than the tornadoes)? Cooking segments? Diet segments? Gadget segments? So, what’s the big deal if they pre-empt those rediculous segments to show a once-in-a-generation wedding that appeals to billions of people? I see no problem at all with the coverage.

njoy-d-ride said:

Um, Colby’s column.

TristramShandy said:
I know, Colby, we should all be tuned into MSNBC or reading your crap on Mediaite.

Or maybe posting something more intelligent the usual childish media bashing drivel?

Why does theatrics become news worthy? Unless these people have any type of nominal influence within the political nature of the UK – then this ‘ceremony’ seems as empty and as useless as the words of the Pope…..

This type of media-coverage means nothing at all. Life doesn’t care about anyone getting married, let alone so-called ‘royalty’ and ‘blue bloods’ who are so disconnected from the people to begin with. And while I found Diana a very good example of an individual who saw the writing upon her walls and didn’t want to become part of such a travesty as ‘the Royal Family’ – I was more interested in her AFTER she decided to leave ‘the Royal Family’, and because her own person…..

Well said, Magister.

Magister said:
An argument could certainly be made that the news channels didn’t need to be involved

Not a cogent one. The British Commonwealth comprises a third of the globe, and the monarch is sovereign, not the Prime Minister. This couple may resurrect a centuries-old monarchy and mitigate their decades of PR problems, raising morale in Britain and making our strongest ally stronger. This is a major global event.

I agree, why is this royal wedding crap being foisted on us 24/7? Are we all supposed to be into childish fairy tales?
What really impresses is the usual mindless right wingers here are making their usual mindless comments, as if their FOX isn’t covering it too 24/7. Well concepts like irony and hypocrisy are lost on the stupid and self obsessed!
Honestly when one sack of senile ignorance after another comes up with the same childish “Obama Media” nonsense as if the royal wedding coverage is some subliminal Democrat message.

Someone voted against the babe on Camelot? The King must be about.

hzar23 said:
Why does theatrics become news worthy? Unless these people have any type of nominal influence within the political nature of the UK–

Uh, they do. While a monarch hasn’t refused to sign a measure into law since 1707, she does retain that power–more importantly, the Queen is consulted on all important governmental matters, her input is required, and she has access to all government intelligence. It’s up to the individual monarch how to use that power, and we’re all used to things staying the same because the same person has been on the throne for 58 years.

hzar23 said:
This type of media-coverage means nothing at all. Life doesn’t care about anyone getting married, let alone so-called ‘royalty’ and ‘blue bloods’ who are so disconnected from the people to begin with.

“Life” doesn’t care? Then who were those 1-2 million people who showed up?

By “life” you mean American culture, because no one else matters to you. Unwise.

NORBIT Jr. said:
Seems to be the same way the Mainstream Media covered Obama’s election here!

What’s the problem?
Doesn’t the “ProtectObama” Media view him as a god anymore?

These media whores are more propagandists than reporters.

btw, Goldman Sachs & their bff’s on Wall Street = RECORD BONUSES!
Black communities = Inordinate hardship under slow recovery.

But you black voters keep voting for this corrupt Hugo-wannabee…SUCKERS!

Wow Norbit, you even look as stupid, petty and pathetic as you sound, with your mindless garbage about them treating Obama as God. Since the majority of theotards are rw’ers like you, how would treating Obama as God help him when those jerks despise him? What in your paranoid little mind does this coverage have to do with Obama? So go watch some FOX so you can get the stupid slanted trash that fits your ante-deluvian world view. I have to laugh as if you really care about the black community, you phony.

“undercut journalism’s true purpose.”
You mean electing liberals?
This is toooooo rich. A member of the most corrupt, irresponsible occupation in the nation complaining about the effect a little escapism has on his profession. Thank you Mr. Hall, now I don’t have to go to one of those tiresome left-wing, America hating, agenda driven Hollywood comedies tonight. You saved me eight bucks and provided far more laughs.

Laurie Beth said:
ife” doesn’t care? Then who were those 1-2 million people who showed up?

By “life” you mean American culture, because no one else matters to you. Unwise.

While it is worth some coverage, you have to admit it is a quite excessive for just a wedding? What can possibly happen there that will be newsworthy; he will dump her on the altar or some Muslim terrorists will blow it all up? What about important news?

AmeriCuda said:
“undercut journalism’s true purpose.”
You mean electing liberals?
This is toooooo rich. A member of the most corrupt, irresponsible occupation in the nation complaining about the effect a little escapism has on his profession. Thank you Mr. Hall, now I don’t have to go to one of those tiresome left-wing, America hating, agenda driven Hollywood comedies tonight. You saved me eight bucks and provided far more laughs.

Got any more mindless right wing media bashing garbage you want to dump, fake patriot? I’ll assume you are a Palindrone, since you seem to share her stupidity, ignorance, paranoia, reactionary world view and all around small minded of Sarah just like the rest of her stupid teeny bopper like fan base.

I don’t have to admit anything. It is not “just” a wedding in their culture, it is the marriage of their future king and queen. Weddings do not ink contracts of power here, but they do there. It’s about embracing the culture of an ally. It’s disrespectful to say that it is not important or “real” news, and it’s a gross misunderstanding of the historical significance.

Additionally, I believe you have to make the best effort you can to understand British culture and the meaning of the crown in order to understand the history that birthed this country. We can help them celebrate one of the cornerstones of their culture even if we don’t choose it for ourselves.

Moreover, we *should* do that. They’re a stalwart ally, and they’d do it for us.

The whole concept of a monarchy where the regents actually have some real power in this day and age is a disgrace to thinking humans.

I love it when Palindrones complain about the media and journalism as if FOX hired her only for her non existent journalism skills. Their idea of unbiased quality media is someone who sounds like Sean Hannity. Honestly, if the best your bird brain can do is parrot back the same old cliches and slogans Rush et al pounded into your avian skull about the bad old librull (anything you don’t like) media, then you need to change the program.

Laurie Beth said:
Moreover, we *should* do that. They’re a stalwart ally, and they’d do it for us.

True they are an ally and good country, but this is way way too much. Come on, it’s only a wedding!

Not to them.

I made the mistake of starting watching Morning Joe only to change 5 minutes later after all the fawning over everything from Mika. Its was unbearable. Headlines News was where I finally settled less annoying media members jumping in with pointless comments.

Laurie Beth said:
Not to them.

I am sure that a large minority of Britons feel exactly the same as I do, or even wish those inbred royals & nobles would vanish too!

Maybe. But we don’t have a dog in that fight.

Gee…’wall to wall’ you say….Well, I don’t see anyone holding a gun to your head making you watch the danged thing.

All my best to the couple…Royal or not, they are a stunning duo and I wish them nothing but happiness.
All the rest who are tired of the ROYALS need to get a life away from the Telly…..and be a bit more gracious.
Jealousy is not EVER attractive.

It isn’t wrong and it isn’t appalling. It was a beautiful event and those of us in the USA who chose to watch it, did.
That is called freedom. England is our closest ally and while their customs are different, more formal than ours, millions of us are interested in their customs, indeed their royalty. We could use a little more formality and a little less crass in our public events. Sandy 21 has it right. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it.

It was nice to see ” real ” Britons carrying on that countries centuries old traditions. It is amazing to watch all of the various things that make the day go off without a hitch.

I also felt that what is supposedly an outdated stuffy bunch of wankers, everyone from the most well behaved children all the way up to the queen herself seemed very relaxed and genuinely enjoying themselves.

Unfortunately then I had to come back the reality of the lib and the smell of three week old bum that they bring.

Happy, happy, joy, joy all over a gun, oops again freudian slip I guess.

Barack Must Go said:
It was nice to see ” real ” Britons carrying on that countries centuries old traditions. It is amazing to watch all of the various things that make the day go off without a hitch.

I also felt that what is supposedly an outdated stuffy bunch of wankers, everyone from the most well behaved children all the way up to the queen herself seemed very relaxed and genuinely enjoying themselves.

Unfortunately then I had to come back the reality of the lib and the smell of three week old bum that they bring.

Happy, happy, joy, joy all over a gun, oops again freudian slip I guess.

Wow! Did you imagine that watching the Wedding will give you any class? Because as far as I am concerned, you are one of the most low, common, predictable & contemptible rw posters here.

jakester said:
Wow! Did you imagine that watching the Wedding will give you any class? Because as far as I am concerned, you are one of the most low, common, predictable & contemptible rw posters here.

Coming from a juice bag like you that means absolutely nothing…….other than the fact I now have my third stalker here at MEDIAite… you.

Are you kidding me, I’ll take watching this anyday over having to watch the Obimbo-circus. Watching something of class will be a welcoming break from watching the next stupid comment by Obimbo.

I feel the SAME way when the so-called “NEWS” organizations interrupt regular programming to “go live” with a Press Conference (that is, in fact, NOTHING more than the NEWS media trying to get THEIR question answered – to get THEIR face on camera).

I can’t tell you the number of “press conferences” I’ve heard, where the “NEWS” media was asking the MOST STUPID questions (and/or questions that the person speaking said THEY WILL NOT ANSWER [yet those "crack" so-called "reporters" are just SURE they can craft a question to FORCE the speaker to slip-up and answer THEIR question (NOT!)]).

Colby summed his story up with….”With apologies to Steely Dan, it all feels a lot like the royal scam.”

Colby….does your TV have an on/off switch?

It was appropriate story, even with the destructive storms in the South….Life goes on…some of it is good , some of it is bad….but it keeps on chugging along.

Next time, a Royal wedding happens, turn the TV off and go for a walk….it works wonders…clears the head!

Royal weddings have always held an interest. I’m not overly a fan but see it more of a diversion in these crazy times. Sure everybody jumped on it but so what. The internet provides coverage of all the issues 24/7 and there is never a moment you are not bombarded with the “hard news”. Let people have there diversion. I watch and read news until my head hurts and my blood boils. Let people have a little fun. You don’t have to watch if you don’t want to. There is plenty to fault news organizations about these days, but this story has always been and always will be report in depth.

Guess what, I watched NONE OF IT. It was a total waste, fairy tale bs. It meant nothing to me or anyone here in the USA. This is the new media, hype the hell out of simple minded crap like this, Natalie Holloway or Anna Nicole and ignore the important stuff

CAconservative said:
Are you kidding me, I’ll take watching this anyday over having to watch the Obimbo-circus. Watching something of class will be a welcoming break from watching the next stupid comment by Obimbo.

Or the next stupid no class con comment from some geek who thinks “Obimbo” is clever?

jakester said:
Guess what, I watched NONE OF IT. It was a total waste, fairy tale bs. It meant nothing to me or anyone here in the USA. This is the new media, hype the hell out of simple minded crap like this, Natalie Holloway or Anna Nicole and ignore the important stuff

What tickles your fancy on American TV young klady?

hmmm. . let’s see, you salivate over that fat, ugly trump, give hannity the little frog press, publish bikini pics of every slutty celeb star, and on and on. Looking at the royal wedding was a highlight compared to the lowlife coverage of lohan, sheen, and the rest of the losers.

Laurie Beth said:
The Royal Wedding and the devastating tornadoes have both been covered extensively, and neither is more important than the other because they’re apples & oranges. Sara’s right; the wedding is incredibly historical and important on a global scale. If the criteria you use to determine how important a news story is and whether it deserves coverage are: A. A significant number of Americans have to be interested in it, and B. stories with gore trump all others, then Nancy Grace is the only journalist worth a damn. That’s not a rule of thumb I would recommend using.

Agree.

Over 2 billion worldwide tuned in to watch the Royal wedding so no problem with people not caring about the Monarchy. Many of those billions watched the coverage in the middle of the night. The tornado disaster was and still is being covered extensively but not in the middle of the night as few would be watching. As for the tornado coverage being aired outside the US, yes, it is, as is most US news. I have family in Canada that have been talking about the damage they’ve seen, as well as a good friend who lives in Sanitago Chile. So no worries its not being covered enough.

Unlike the US, people in other countries do watch US news, some quite regularly and actually know a lot about the US. Canada in particular, as US history was always a part of the school curiculum when I lived there years ago.. Even now theres still some US history taught. How much Canadian history is taught in US schools? or any other countries history? Very little or none in some schools.

Ask the average Canadian about US history or the latest US news about whats happening that day, and they’ll probably be able to answer the question.

Ask the average American a question about Canadian history and they’d most likely say they don’t know, or say Canada is that place where Eskimos live in igloos and travel by sled dogs. Ditto if a question was asked about Italy, France, etc etc..

Americans, not all but a great many, only find interest in America and what the latest news is in America. The rest of the world to them is not important unless an event like the royal wedding comes up. Then they can spend their time ridiculing them on all the message boards for daring to live a diferent lifestyle.

I was cruelly disappointed that the ceremony wasn’t available in 3D. Some of these people are so shallow that they need all the help they can get.

The troll who wrote this article must be a nascar fan and I really don’t understand the fascination when all nascar is a bunch of guys driving in a circle and turning left. Today with all of the sadness there is on the news of terroists killing people, almost 300 dead from a tornadoes it is a refreshing break to see a traditional royal wedding between two young people who are very much in love. I could have watched that all day rather than hear the next ridiculous charge against our president by trump or how many troops we lost in the middle east.
There are many shows on the air I can’t stand, but rather than berate them to people who like them I simply chose not to watch those shows. What is the author talking about? When William’s parents got married we had more than three channels to watch! There was FOX, CW and CNN was a major news station.

I loved it all. The only blot on the coverage was Shepard was a classless jerk. I swear Martha was embarrassed. If he wanted to be rude, crude and an “ugly American” why did he go?

I’ve always enjoyed Shepard but today I was ashamed of him.

Great job, Colby….

seek said:
I loved it all. The only blot on the coverage was Shepard was a classless jerk. I swear Martha was embarrassed. If he wanted to be rude, crude and an “ugly American” why did he go? I’ve always enjoyed Shepard but today I was ashamed of him.

You ought to have watched it on the BBC. No mind-numbing chatter and not a crass Yank to be found.

seek said:
I loved it all. The only blot on the coverage was Shepard was a classless jerk. I swear Martha was embarrassed. If he wanted to be rude, crude and an “ugly American” why did he go?

I’ve always enjoyed Shepard but today I was ashamed of him.

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I was also taken aback at the announcement that Smith would be there for FOX.

He always does his snarky smirky Maddow impersonation when covering any story about the British Royal family. His coverage and sneeringly dismissive comments when Prince Charles and his wife were attacked by anarchists last year were not only factually wrong but actually insulting.

BTW, isn’t it Ugly Americanish to go on a sneer and smear campaign against another country’s cherished traditions?

Grammie said:
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I was also taken aback at the announcement that Smith would be there for FOX.

He always does his snarky smirky Maddow impersonation when covering any story about the British Royal family. His coverage and sneeringly dismissive comments when Prince Charles and his wife were attacked by anarchists last year were not only factually wrong but actually insulting.

BTW, isn’t it Ugly Americanish to go on a sneer and smear campaign against another country’s cherished traditions?

Actually the “ugly American” in the novel was ugly in appearance only. He was one of the decent people in the book.

The family has to pay for the wedding so how

jakester said:
Guess what, I watched NONE OF IT. It was a total waste, fairy tale bs. It meant nothing to me or anyone here in the USA. This is the new media, hype the hell out of simple minded crap like this, Natalie Holloway or Anna Nicole and ignore the important stuff

Nothing means much to many in the US except the US. Therein lies the problem.

I just loved the prince’s earnestness during the exchange of vows, Grammie.

It reminded me of my groom on our day, however, poor Prince William lacks my man’s twinkle.

Oh, well, Kate…

What I find amusing is how shallow and partisan most of the posters, ESPECIALLY THE CONS, are on this board. If a con writer posted the same article which I am sure many did elsewhere, the same 0 dimensional minds would be praising him then damning the “LIBROOLS” who produce and watch such blase over hyped Royal stuff.

seek said:
I loved it all. The only blot on the coverage was Shepard was a classless jerk. I swear Martha was embarrassed. If he wanted to be rude, crude and an “ugly American” why did he go?

I’ve always enjoyed Shepard but today I was ashamed of him.

i thought he was kind of weird too…. he kept making bizarre comments.

I think we need to know whether the media made a profit on the coverage to determine whether it was stupid to do or not. If it was a financial bust, then the argument about shrinking bureau budgets would be more compelling.

There are lots of events that get possibly excessive coverage that you or I don’t necessarily care about (New Years’ celebrations come to mind). In those instances, the standby — change the channel — still works like a charm. It’s not as if there aren’t *literally* hundreds of other choices.

In terms of crowding out tornado coverage, I saw plenty of that. Not sure there’s an actual conflict

What a thoughtful piece, especially for Mediaite. I lived in England for nearly ten years and have half English children so even I eventually watched bits and pieces of The Wedding on ABC streaming with Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer who were pretty good and intelligent about it all. While watching I thought about how the BBC would handle this and how state run TV in Europe and Canada far outdoes commercial American TV in news coverage. In the states we’ve let private corporative values and greed take over our lives, and these values are destroying our country. Britain is no less capitalisitc than we are, but they have much stronger communal values which is why they have a national health care system that, despite the incredible propaganda barrage we get against universal health care, is infinitely better than anything Americans can imagine, and the British would not in a million years trade what they have for our totally corrupt, inefficient and expensive system. And there is private health care in Britain, but most people, including the wealthy use the ‘socialized’ system for 90% of their medical needs. The same thing applies to electronic media. The BBC is the dominant TV network and is supported by licensing fees and has produced great television for many years as well as much better and more objective news coverage than we have on all our commercial outlets. We’ve let private and corporative greed run amok and we’re now paying the price in a degraded economy and the rise of proto-fascist movements financed by the greediest of our corporative sharks. Most of the British are not ardent monarchists and regard the Royal Family as harmless traditional and sentimenal decoration. Funny enough, the Obamas are the closest we’ve come since the Kennedy’s to having classy people in the White House and look at how they are being vilified. Says a lot about our low state of mind and culture!

ganymede said:
What a thoughtful piece, especially for Mediaite. I lived in England for nearly ten years . . .

Stand back. Your entirely reasonable post will be buried under a mountain of “we don’t care about the Brits” and “go back to London you socialist-Marxist-commie traitor” type comments if the usual suspects happen to read it.

I tell myself that Mediaite is not typical of most Americans or even most Americans who are interested in political media, in that the preponderance of wingnut loons here is much higher than in the general population.

For the sake of America, I hope I’m correct.

jakester said:
I love it when Palindrones complain about the media and journalism as if FOX hired her only for her non existent journalism skills. Their idea of unbiased quality media is someone who sounds like Sean Hannity. Honestly, if the best your bird brain can do is parrot back the same old cliches and slogans Rush et al pounded into your avian skull about the bad old librull (anything you don’t like) media, then you need to change the program.

Are you lost? In the wrong thread? Ah, I get it, we subistitute Palindrones for Kate and Sean Hannity for William and Harry can be Rush???? BTW, kind of a wasted spiel…. unless we substitute Palindrones for Colby Hall but then……

lol….colby whats wrong…..did you miss trump tv this morning???…..the media took a few hours off from 24hr birtherism and your having a hissyfit over it…..

Opulent to the point of decadency, the English way

jakester said:
What I find amusing is how shallow and partisan most of the posters, ESPECIALLY THE CONS, are on this board. If a con writer posted the same article which I am sure many did elsewhere, the same 0 dimensional minds would be praising him then damning the “LIBROOLS” who produce and watch such blase over hyped Royal stuff.

What I find amusing is your lack of self-awareness.

Karol said:
It isn’t wrong and it isn’t appalling. It was a beautiful event and those of us in the USA who chose to watch it, did.
That is called freedom. England is our closest ally and while their customs are different, more formal than ours, millions of us are interested in their customs, indeed their royalty. We could use a little more formality and a little less crass in our public events. Sandy 21 has it right. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it.

The Brits are family. That said, some people love the whole thing, others could care less. I’d wager big money that if you polled the question, the two camps would break much more along male/female lines than any other metric.

Best wishes to the newlyweds, and thank God we can move along now.

wow, couldn’t disagree more. the wedding was pretty damn glorious IMHO.

there were two attractive young people very much in love, beautiful hymns beautifully done, a splendid setting, a lot of great clothes and really silly hats, ultra-cute children, and the British people enjoying a celebration of their cultural heritage. what’s not to like?

ganymede, in his paragraph-free ramblings about the great British healthcare system and the regal wonderfulness of Obama, says confidently that most Brits are not “monarchists.” they were today, bucko! and it was downright inspiring to see them cheering for Queen and country.

well–I was inspired anyway. apparently earnest liberals just found it a piggish spectacle of oppressors enjoying themselves at the peasants’ expense. how sad to feel that way! how sad not to be able to have a bit of fun!

a couple of things, Colby:

-there’s been no tornado coverage because of the wedding? that’s just silly. there’s been a ton of coverage, and there continues to be. straw man much?

-”back then” when Diana Spencer married Prince Charles there weren’t really very many TV channels? are you high, or really young, or just not very smart? we’re talking 1980s, you know. we weren’t exactly shifting around the rabbit ears so “Your Show of Shows” would come in more clearly. heck, some of us even had remote control!

I watched a bit of the wedding. My wife watched a bit more. Neither of us were glued to the TV. They seem like nice folks (but who knows what goes on behind the scenes?) Given that I don’t know more about them as people, I wish them many years of happiness and wedded bliss.

ganymede said:
What a thoughtful piece, especially for Mediaite. I lived in England for nearly ten years and have half English children so even I eventually watched bits and pieces of The Wedding on ABC streaming with Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer who were pretty good and intelligent about it all. While watching I thought about how the BBC would handle this and how state run TV in Europe and Canada far outdoes commercial American TV in news coverage. In the states we’ve let private corporative values and greed take over our lives, and these values are destroying our country. Britain is no less capitalisitc than we are, but they have much stronger communal values which is why they have a national health care system that, despite the incredible propaganda barrage we get against universal health care, is infinitely better than anything Americans can imagine, and the British would not in a million years trade what they have for our totally corrupt, inefficient and expensive system. And there is private health care in Britain, but most people, including the wealthy use the ’socialized’ system for 90% of their medical needs. The same thing applies to electronic media. The BBC is the dominant TV network and is supported by licensing fees and has produced great television for many years as well as much better and more objective news coverage than we have on all our commercial outlets. We’ve let private and corporative greed run amok and we’re now paying the price in a degraded economy and the rise of proto-fascist movements financed by the greediest of our corporative sharks. Most of the British are not ardent monarchists and regard the Royal Family as harmless traditional and sentimenal decoration. Funny enough, the Obamas are the closest we’ve come since the Kennedy’s to having classy people in the White House and look at how they are being vilified. Says a lot about our low state of mind and culture!

Start a blog .. This is such drivel

I have seen some parts of the wedding and then switched the Tv off because I think this wedding is not going to help me in my work. SO why waste time after watching it??
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mediadoubt said:
Stand back. Your entirely reasonable post will be buried under a mountain of “we don’t care about the Brits” and “go back to London you socialist-Marxist-commie traitor” type comments if the usual suspects happen to read it.

I tell myself that Mediaite is not typical of most Americans or even most Americans who are interested in political media, in that the preponderance of wingnut loons here is much higher than in the general population.

For the sake of America, I hope I’m correct.

Isn’t your new avatar the badge of that far left wing group NAMBLA ?

Maybe people want ONE news cycle where they don’t have to hear about the middle east .
What’s the breaking news story over there? The fact that their blowing each other up for reasons as old as history itself.
I don’t think ANY news story was neglected or not reported upon because of resources being diverted to cover the royal wedding.
The wedding coverage was a small RESPITE from a seemingly Never ending Barrage of Bad news AND
Lazy reporting by spoiled reporters on a per diem expense account.

sarainitaly said:
i don’t think the wedding is the problem.

i think it is all the other crap like race card this, and race card that, and birther this, and trump that. the wedding is historical. This crap and the failure of the MSM to cover, question and hold Obama accountable is the real scam.

Wow! This is the definition of Obama Derangement Syndrome. To take an article about the Royal Wedding and turn it into a rant against the President just shows how far gone some people are.

JamesA1102 said:
Wow! This is the definition of Obama Derangement Syndrome. To take an article about the Royal Wedding and turn it into a rant against the President just shows how far gone some people are.

it’s an article about the media. my comment is about the media.

your comment is irrelevant to the discussion.

JamesA1102 said:
Wow! This is the definition of Obama Derangement Syndrome. To take an article about the Royal Wedding and turn it into a rant against the President just shows how far gone some people are.

Obama could not be at the wedding because he had a photo op to do in Alabama , he hates the English , and he wasn’t invited .

Speaking of Planet of the Apes , Roddy Mcdowell would have loved the wedding .

Just thought of something. On my first visit to England, the Air Force was springing for it. That means RRK’s taxes were helping pay for it. Ain’t that a kick in the nads?

JamesA1102 said:
Wow! This is the definition of Obama Derangement Syndrome. To take an article about the Royal Wedding and turn it into a rant against the President just shows how far gone some people are.

What’s the D for…Duh?

sarainitaly said:
it’s an article about the media. my comment is about the media.

your comment is irrelevant to the discussion.

No, your irrational hatred for the President is what is irrelevant to the discussion.

The Lantern of Truth said:
Obama could not be at the wedding because he had a photo op to do in Alabama , he hates the English , and he wasn’t invited .

Speaking of Planet of the Apes , Roddy Mcdowell would have loved the wedding .

So mentioning the President is speaking of the planet of apes??? Wow you people really resort to the racist comments quickly.

Barack Must Go said:
What’s the D for…Duh?

In your case, yes!

JamesA1102 said:
you people

Racist !

Barack Must Go said:
jakester said:
Wow! Did you imagine that watching the Wedding will give you any class? Because as far as I am concerned, you are one of the most low, common, predictable & contemptible rw posters here.

Coming from a juice bag like you that means absolutely nothing…….other than the fact I now have my third stalker here at MEDIAite… you.

HEHEHE!

DUBYA laughs at the self-important weasel who props himself up with delusions that people find him worthwhile enough to “STALK” let alone pay mind too.

It’s clear to any SIMPLETON reading your ignorant, hateful posts that you’re a low-life, racist. No “STALKING” needed to come to that easy to see conclusion. Heck if DUBYA can see it, anyone can, HEHE!

The Lantern of Truth said:
Racist !

HEHEHE! who are you trying to fool? “YOU” are the racist.

calling yourself “The Lantern of Truth” is a funny joke since your ignorant, hateful posts are full of lies, bigotry & biased hyperbole. “TRUTH” would include FACTS, something you NEOCONS are always short on.

HEHEHE! DUBYA laughs at you pseudo-patriotic TeaTards.

Grammie said:
BTW, isn’t it Ugly Americanish to go on a sneer and smear campaign against another country’s cherished traditions?

Yes…and BHO does a great job at doing this….about the only thing he does right!

Watching the wedding and that beautiful couple WAS FUN! Get over it.

The wedding coverage is BS! The world is on fire and our media has nothing better to do than cover a bunch of do-nothing tax-sucking stuffed shirts for four days. If I were a “commoner” in Britain, I think I’d start a revolution to get rid of this monarchy crap.

LAPil:

Are you talking about the wedding in England, or Obimbo? Tax-sucking, stuffed-shirt, do-nothing! I’m pretty sure your talking about Obimbo, aren’t you? OH ya, thinks he’s a Little monarchist. That’s pretty much a full description of your president.

Barack Must Go said:
Isn’t your new avatar the badge of that far left wing group NAMBLA ?

I believe your counselor has spoken to you — more than once — about your unhealthy interest in pedophilia. We do have rules here at the home, and if you continue to break them we will have to report you to the authorities, or — possibly worse — your mummy and daddy, who will be very cross.

This is your final warning.

JamesA1102 said:
sarainitaly said:
it’s an article about the media. my comment is about the media.
your comment is irrelevant to the discussion.
No, your irrational hatred for the President is what is irrelevant to the discussion.

No, your irrational obsession with me is irrelevant to the discussion.

it is a media site, discussing the *excessive* media coverage of the royal wedding over other events, and the costs associated with said coverage.

And Colby wrote: “Royal Scam: Why Media’s Excessive Royal Wedding Coverage Is Appalling And Wrong – Is it any wonder that so many Americans so deeply distrust the American media? One can cynically presume that many in the news business saw a trip to London (vis-à-vis the royal wedding) as a classic media boondoggle. And while its too soon to know the ratings and how this investment has paid off, the coverage does feel a little shoved down our collective throats right now. With apologies to Steely Dan, it all feels a lot like the royal scam.”

to which I made my reply. Relevant, and on topic.

Yours, as usual, not so much. Not at all, actually.

Total BS. Colby’s quote has nothing to do tith the President. But you have a pathological hatred of the man so you turn can’t help but turn anything in to an excuse to bash the man. You just don’t like that I point out the truth about you.