The American news media has jumped the shark – need proof? Review any/all of the air time devoted to coverage of the impending nuptials of Brittani’s Prince William & Kate Middleton.
Besides acting like an echo chamber for every rumour and innuendo about all the wedding related minutia, they’re acting like this is some important event with a global impact
The royal wedding is only really important to Americans because the American media makes it out to be and I for one, am utterly sick of it.
The subtle and inarticulate implication is that nothing else is as important – not the economy, rising costs of gasoline or health care or all four of Obama’s active military actions around the world.
Nothing is more important than organizing a royal wedding viewing party and every news outlet has some unique or tawdry angle to make their coverage hit us like water torture – each drop seems small and innocuous on its own but taken together its excruciating!
By sucking up all the on-air oxygen this wedding leaves little to no room on the morning news and makes the evening news programs seem more like tabloid TV. If they treat this one story this way it seems safe to say they treat all of their stories the same way.
Jumping the shark describes a moment in the evolution of something that is characterized by absurdity, when the jumper abandons its core premises and begins a decline in quality that is beyond recovery.
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