True. But some would say that if there wasn't the demand, there wouldn't be the supply.
I drop-dead-seriously want to know who it was that was demanding the wall-to-wall coverage of the wedding as if Letourneau was Tom Cruise or Julia Roberts, and there were millions hanging on her every move. After all, books written about this tragedy (and yes, it is a tragedy) have not hit the best-seller lists like those regarding, say, Scott Peterson; Letourneau hadn't given an interview in years; while serving her time after violating parole, she only turned up in the news when she was disciplined for sending threatening notes to Vili; Vili's bizarre money-grab suit against the school district for failing to protect him from his future wife was laughed out of court.
I haven't watched Entertainment Tonight since it stopped being about show business and started being about celebrities, Mary Hart's legs notwithstanding. I am not interested in seeing the wedding footage of some bad actor or rock star as if I would have given a second thought to wanting to be there. But Letourneau and Fualaau are by no means entertainers nor celebrities; they are simply public figures by way of the police blotter.
I think the idiots at ET figured they could spin the circumstances of their marriage into some cheesy love-conquers-all story, asking their viewers to forget the pedophilic, mental illness, adultery, unwed teenage father, jailbird mother, divorce, and abandoned family aspects that are all too real. ET also wants to pretend it isn't taking sides against cheatee Steve Letourneau, whose family name has been dragged down by his wicked witch of a wife -- what fun it must be to be him nowadays. The camera loves the omnipresent smile on Mary Kay's face, as if her happiness is all that matters, when the fact is that real people have suffered and will continue to suffer as a result of Letourneau's foolishness. To the amoral and the twisted, that's "entertainment."
Just because ET pulled this doesn't mean there was a demand for it. There wasn't a demand for Baby Geniuses 2 either, and someone made the decision to make that. I just hope that the sweeps month risk they took backfired on them, because if it didn't, expect more of this excrement in the future -- and perhaps next time, it won't be the marriage of a boy and his female teacher.