What is it with this royal wedding nonsense?

[Donna Halper]

Garrett said--
> What is it with that?  We got rid of that lot 235 years ago; why is
> our media so fascinated by a marriage in the Mountbatten-Windsor
> family?  Would they be giving the time away for free to the British
> tourist board?
>    
What irritates me is how most local stations have cut back on local news 
and cut back on budgets for the newsroom.  Yet they will come up with 
the money to send a crew to England to cover an event like the royal 
wedding.  WHY?