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The week’s world news was dominated by one event, i.e. a wedding of two people in London! Dan Rather, American journalist and the former news anchor for CBS Evening News provides some wonderful insights about the plight of world news masked by a “Royal wedding”. To use Rather’s words, it is all about a “week of silliness in April”. Writing to huffingtonpost.com, Rather writes:

“Remember the millions of dollars, hundreds of staff and hours of coverage spent on a wedding in London when crises around the globe and here at home festered. Remember the unseemly pas de deux between the press and a reality TV show huckster peddling racially-fraught falsehoods, as both interviewers and the interviewee seek a bump in ratings.

“And then please take a moment to remember the eight American soldiers and one contractor killed by an Afghan soldier at the Kabul airport in a war too easily forgotten. Remember the hundreds likely being killed in Syria and Libya, not to mention the death and unrest plaguing countries like the Ivory Coast, which almost never earn more than a mention on our most-watched newscasts.”

With fanfare and British flags flying everywhere, Prince William and his long-time girlfriend, Kate Middleton, got married last Friday in a moment that will shape the future of the British monarchy. The London Metropolitan Police said, a million people lined the path of the royal procession, and half a million gathered near Buckingham Palace to watch the bride and groom, now known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, kiss (twice) on the palace’s balcony.

The journalists who gathered in London forgetting the news of the world generated fairy tale-like news. The television viewing estimates around the world may have reached the three billion range. Australians held bouquet-throwing competitions while some people in Hong Kong wore Kate and William masks. There was much fanfares around the world by people who forgot the woes of their lives.

 

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