Turns out, the 8,000 journalists gathered in London to document the next generation of British royalty offered fairly reasonable, mostly gaffe-free performances, which communicated the majesty of the moment with a few necessary detours into gossip and fashion talk.
Until the ceremony ended.
Once the happy couple shared their public kiss — two of them, in fact, which Today show anchor Meredith Vieira unfortunately referred to as the "money shot" — the TV networks still covering the event descended into a morass of saccharine-sweet observations, inane interviews and space-gobbling fashion "analysis," living down to some critics' worst expectations.
Most TV outlets devoted to the event were into their continuous coverage efforts by 4 a.m. local time. One notable exception: CBS, which chose to air a re-broadcast of the 1981 wedding of Prince William's parents, Prince Charles and Lady Diana, and made it look like they couldn't convince departing anchor Katie Couric to get out of bed soon enough to start with everyone else.
CNN anchor Piers Morgan emerged as an early favorite, calling one wedding guest a notorious partier while noting that another male dignitary, arriving with a beautiful woman in a low-cut dress, was smiling so much because he was lucky to get an invitation. That's what happens when you hire a veteran of Britain's notorious Fleet Street tabloid newspaper industry as your color commentator.
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