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“Excess of the 1980’s without the Guilt”
1994 is the ninety fourth year on the 1900’s. It was the fourth year of the 1990’s making it part of the early 90’s as people now refer to it. And it was six years before the start of the new millennium. The 90’s are now very fondly thought of. It was a time where everyone was thought to be happy, care free, and making money. Technology was exploding and excess was everywhere. The high demand for anything scandalous made it very easy for anyone to make money. Information didn’t travel as fast as it does today but the demand in the 90’s had made it possible for the mass media frenzies of the first decade in the twenty first century.
The capitalization of events no matter how tragic and the dumbing down of America seems to have gone hand and hand in the 90’s. There was sensationalism brought to every story and there was no standard to uphold anymore. Low brow entertainment was at an all time high and it was never more publicized. Talk shows like Geraldo Rivera, Ricki Lake, and above all Jerry Springer thrived during the decade. Any sort of level of decency had been shattered and it was a free for all.
Commercializing all events no matter how unfortunate separated the 90’s from other generations. It had never been possible to keep people posted with copious amounts of meaningless bullshit, but with the advent of the internet, marketers soon found a larger platform to entertain the masses. A prime example of this was the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman and the trial of OJ Simpson, which came to be known as The Trial of the Century. The media circus that surrounded Simpson was unheard of. When Simpson was originally going to turn himself in to the LAPD there was a reported 1,000 members of the media waiting for him to catch a glimpse. When he didn’t show up there was no choice other than to follow his white Bronco traveling south on a highway in California and broadcast, what appeared to...