Who Cares About the Royal Wedding?

We had a debate recently about whether my lack of interest in the royal family/wedding (or other famous-for-being famous people with an equal independent claim on people’s attention, like the Kardashians or the cast of Jersey Shore) makes me part of a minority (as a commenter claimed) or as what media attention tends to conceal as being a very large majority (my contention.) Well, in fact if you’re an American interest in the royal wedding makes you part of a very small minority indeed. People forget that it doesn’t take a very high percentage of the American public to produce enough ratings to sustain a profitable TV show or move magazines from supermarket check-out racks.