Media overkill...

[Uncle Cracker]

Actually you can't blame the media. They have to jump on events like this.

Do you really think so? How likely are you to turn Nightline off if they're not covering the Clinton wedding? That's what I thought...

[cwsmith]

Actually you can't blame the media. They have to jump on events like this. IIRC, the Julie and David wedding received plenty of coverage. I just don't remember excessive flamboyance.
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Back when Julie and David got married ("Eisenhower" for all you younger folks), there was rarely "flamboyance"... thankfully it was a much different time.

Today, we live for flamboyance, recognition, and almost decadent exploit of any "memorable" reason to try to outspend our peers.

Do any of us remember when a birthday party meant your neighborhood friends or immediate family for maybe our 5th or 16th (the two biggenst birthday events). And Mom made the cake! Now, it's big partys at Chuck-E-Cheese, rent a theater, or other really big deal.... and it's every year and it's GOT to be better than the birthday party the Jone's put on last week!!!

Or how about "Graduation"... that usually meant "high school" and if we were really fortunate, maybe college. Now it's pre-school, kindergarden, grade school, middle school, high school... etc., etc., etc. Now kids get "recognized" at every occasion possible. Good for self-esteem, perhaps, but it also makes such occasions "expected" and just sort of ho-hum too.

So weddings, limo's, bigger-better, and of course "Flamboyant" is just all part of today's scene. All sort of very boring and not really all that appreciated by anyone, anymore.

CWS

[LCHIEN]

Self-imposed deletion - I got too political.