Enough's enough on that bride (wow! someone gets it!)

[UpInArms]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11578028.htm

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excerpt:

Since a Georgia woman went AWOL days before her wedding, we've been bludgeoned with hours upon hours and words upon words about the bride who claimed she had been abducted and the jilted groom who vowed he will wait for her at the altar forever and ever, or as long as it takes her to walk down the aisle. Now we know more about this couple than we do about our own neighbors.

Enough, please!

It's not like there's a dearth of news to cover. Plenty of important issues deserve our attention. Social Security, for one. That how-to-fix-it debate is still around, but admittedly hard to sell to a finicky audience when there are enticing pictures of a pretty woman -- albeit a bug-eyed one -- leaning next to a man who would soon learn he was clueless about her deepest feelings.

There are terrorists bombing the heck out of Iraq, too, and the specter of inflation nibbling away at our buying power. But really, who wants to talk about such boring, frightening topics when we have a live soap opera to hype? And so we in the media have bombarded the world with a story that deserved, at most, a fraction of the space and time outlets have devoted to it. The drivel that has passed off as analysis is an embarrassment to the annals of journalism.

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[Skittles]

1. I just can't watch TV news anymore

it's like reading the National Enquirer. Just f***ing sickening.

[GCP]

2. Amen to that

I was home in the UK last week, and to see a real press in action was a revelation. They dared to take on Blair and his ministers with scarcely concealed skepticism and cynicism. It was beautiful.
Oh, and BTW - isn't it funny how their exit polls were bang on :sarcasm:

[Skittles]

3. OMG

I'm half Brit (mum's the everlasting Brit), spent many years there as a child and still visit occasionally. It boggles my mind when I watch the news in England!