JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRESS DROWNS PEOPLE IN MEGHAN AND HARRY TREACLE – THERE IS A LESSON HERE ABOUT PRESS ABILITY TO SUSTAIN ILLUSIONS – CRITICAL TO EVENTS IN SYRIA RUSSIA AND SALISBURY

John Chuckman

EXPANSION OF COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN

 

“The royal wedding: is there too much TV coverage of Meghan and Harry’s big day?” 

 

You must be kidding? We’re drowning in this treacle.

And why are newspapers left out?

There is at least one little real lesson in this.

And that is the illusion that the press and broadcasting are able to produce and sustain that something of importance or significance is happening.

That in the face of the manifest truth that any royal wedding is close to meaningless, and that this particular one sets a record for vapidity.

Intensely ambitious, aging B-actress is determined to marry a Prince who has, time and again, demonstrated himself as unbalanced and uninteresting. So what?

By the way, that ability to create and sustain a public illusion plays a much more consequential role in foreign affairs, as we can see with recent events in Syria or Russia or Salisbury.