Britney Spears vs The News
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I love gossip. Love it. After all, it is my job to follow it. But even so, sometimes even I know when it gets to be too much.
This morning I was watching Joe Scarborough on MSNBC as he spoke about the previous night's Iowa caucus. Suddenly a woman's voice broke through, stating that she was in the control room. Then video came on of Britney Spears, and the woman began a voice over about Britney being rushed to the hospital.
As soon as she finished, Joe commented that she shouldn't interrupt him about things like that until 12:01—when his show his off the air.
Ouch to control booth woman.
But c'mon, Joe Scarborough is right. Isn't a discussion about who might be the next President of the United States a wee bit more important than Britney Spears?
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Yes Joe, you are right. The control booth women may have thought it was important. When in reality it wasn't. To many times, Celebrities think they are above the law and the games they play to get attention, they want the world hear about. The media is the blame for some of this: If the media would back down, the celebrities would not be so enticing.
Amazing that the woman would think news about Britney Spears is more important then real news!
When will the media give more credit to the American public and the stories that they try and feed us.
No wonder our country is going down the tubes!!
I LOVE BRITNEY SPEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Britney is not realizing what she's doing. Maybe in a couple of years she will think about her kids. Spears is not a teenager she is an adult and is supposed to think first about her kids. She is not a good role model for them. I feel so sorry about her! I pray for her and her family. She can change her living style.
Britney is not realizing what she's doing. Maybe in a couple of years she will think about her kids. Spears is not a teenager she is an adult and is supposed to think first about her kids. She is not a good role model for them. I feel so sorry about her! I pray for her and her family. She can change her living style.
The media is banking that Britney Spears follows the route of Anna Nicole Smith. There is nothing better for an entertainment career than to die, and the news media is just hoping they get lucky enough for that.
Actually, interrupting the show for any reason is a good thing. The less of Scarborough (Scar for short from The Lion King), the better.
Britney's entire life she has been a favorite of the tabloids. Whether successful or suffering, whether doing boring errands or clubbing, whether being married and pregnant or getting divorced and battling over custody, the paps follow her. She doesn't SEEK them. They are just always there. Britney's gone a little crazy. That's why she joined the celeb dating club (MillMatch.....com). Not for the attention she already has no matter what.
No, Brittany is not more important than the presidential race. Brittany is a poor example of an young adult parent. She has been surrounded with a host of YES men and women including her parents. She has no one to set her down and take control of her. She also has no respect for herself let alone her two sons. She truly has lost her way and is in desperate need of guidance from someone.
Do you remember when the AP put out a report saying that they would no longer print stories about Paris Hilton? Please, can't we put Britney Spears in the same catagory? Congratulations Joe on being the only person in news who recognizes that Britney Spears is NOT newsworthy.
leave her alone
BRITNEY IS A LOSER. LOOK AT HER. HOPEFULLY SHE WILL HANG HERSELF. HAHA.
she does need help and that she probally would make a great nmother. Most likely its the facts that her mother doesn't seem to be mentioned in any of these stories notr is her father. Where are ther parents? I could help her and be the one thing she truely needs, a real caring frind. maybe she will ask GOD to intervene and things do happen for the good then.. Keep your chin up Brit, you are a good person, with some terriable nut cases trying to make money off of your name and face. I am rooting for you girl..Eddie and Cheri
The media needs to back off brit.They make it worse for her.Yes I two believe she could be a great mother one day.I believe kevin messed with her head and self image in hopes of what has happened.he gets the kids and will now go after the money.It sad to me because these boys do need there mother.Remember everyone it is hard to be good at something when your own mother was a crappy one to learn from.Good luck to brit.Remember life is to short,sometimes tomorrow NEVER comes.So take time now.
It is very sad to see anyone in such a state of self destruction. But we are all responsible for our own actions and how they affect those that rely on us and are close to us. Britney is an adult and needs to seek help for herself and she is the only one capable of doing so. But on another note: Britney is news because " we the public" make her news. When we stop stop buying the magazines and watching the shows that support the paparazzi, she will no longer be front page news. They take the pictures and print the articles that SELL!! Stop BUYING!!!
I think she should go to theapy and seek medical help for her and her children. She is a wise person and knows what is good for her and her children. She should be with her parents and let them guide her to the write path. I think she can be a better person if she stops parting and doing all the wrong things she knows she's not supose to do. I wish her the best in life.
I believe that the President of the United States is important, however the people of america and what they stand for is also important. Brittney needs to get her life together, she is in a slump. Haven't you all been there once before. Leave her alone, it will work out for her. She can't handle everything on her own with everyone on her back.
I know Britney Spears is very interesting, to most people because she seems to make the wrong choices over and over again, but put yourself in her shoes for 5mins, look back at a young woman has grown up in the limelight and is trying to live with the media around her 24/7, its not soem thing I would like trying to have a young family and raise them to be normal when you are unalbe to have a normal life yourself. Think about that! I am a fan Of Britney since I was young and as I have grow so has she, I know I have made mistakes just like her but no one is bagging out on me cause know one know who I am, I am just a regular person, I would like to see Everyone leave Britney alone so she can be the same.
ITS ALL KEVINS FAULT HE USED HER AND SHE BELIVED IN HIM HE JUST TOOK ADVANTAGE OF HER. HES THE REASON WHY SHE IS IN DISTRESS! HE IS NO WHERE CLOSE TO BEING A REAL MAN AND SHE FOUND THAT OUT TOO LATE AND NOW SHE DOESNT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH HER SELF!
Bitch I mean Brit deserves what she getting and to have her kids taken away. She has brought this on herself and she is chooseing not to get help or vhange. I'm afraid it it tooo late for her. She may as well drop out of the publics eye, she i sone messed up dumb rednedck. Go home
Um, my girls are a year older and a year younger than Britney and when she first began her career I remember in interviews she seemed very preoccupied with becoming a "woman" which I thought at the time was a little off. Does anyone else remember that? Anyway, regardless of why she is where she is it is obvious that she needs mental health care but if she doesn't see it and the people who love her can't make it happen nothing will ever change for her. I think she is having, and will continue to have, a really, really, unhappy life because of it. Her ex-husband may or may not have jumped on the Britney Spears gravy train, but now that the train has derailed at least he has enough common sense to look after his kids and so far he has had the good grace to keep his mouth shut about his ex-wife. Hopefully he will continue to do that for the sake of the children.
Kudos to Joe. Now which is more important? Who will determine our fate or Brittney Spears and her out of control life? Now it doesnt take common sense to know which one. My life isnt revolved around some celebrity. I need to know about who is running this country and what I need to do to be prepared. Brittney needs more than just therapy, the girl needs to pray. The media needs to do like the real people of America....get a life and leave her alone!!!!!!!!
bri, need to pray,and ask god to give her the strenght to do better love herself so she can love those 2 young babies that she was blessed to have
This young lady was a great young girl
who fell in love with someone who did not return the love, But this gives her no right to put her son throught this.She needs to suck it up move on with her life,and be a mom to the greatest love her sons, who need her in their lives.She need to get focus on her sons and be a great mom cause she can.The camera need to leave her alone
and yes she's in the public eyes but she needs to have some private in this time of her life,Cause it would be a shame if something happens to her,THEN
THE WORLD would be saying WE SHOULD HAVE
DONE SOMETHING TO HELP HER.Let's start
by turning our tv's off when they are reporting stuff about her, Let's support
her as the actors and actress are supportig the Writers......
We can SHUT THEM DOWN IF THEY CAN'T REPORT ANY NEWS ABOUT HER, CAUSE RIGTH
NOW THEY ARE USING HER TO SELL THEIR
MAGAZINES, AND OTHER STUFF.
I pray daily that GOD HELP YOU TO GET CUSTODY BACK AND MAKE YOU BETTER.
A mother of 2
I say for everybody to leave her alone. She was a great person to begin with, and she still is,it's just hard for her when she lost the most important things in her life.(her kids,and her stupid husband that used her.) Not everybody is perfect, there's alot of people out there who lose their kids and their loved one and they too go crazy the way she did.....put yourself in her shoes without your kids, see what you would do!!! I believe every kid needs their mother, it's just a little hard for her to get back in track with the person she used to be. LEAVE HER ALONE, SHE DOESN'T NEED BULLSHIT FROM ANYBODY THAT DON'T KNOW HER!!!!!If you really beleive Britney, God will help you with any problem that you may have, you just have to be patient.Sing your heart out girl, that's what you were born to do, and take care of your little sister who needs you right now.
No one wants to know about Britney if the choice is elections or glitterati. Elections effect everyone. Britney affects Britney and her children. I think the media of today have totally lost sight of objective reporting...and of what is truly newsworthy. Those stations and news people that think it worth raving about need to check the classifieds for a job with a tabloid. We need real news, not insights into another person's private life. There are enough nosy people in this world without Fox or MSNBC or CNN making more. I'm ashamed of our media and the people who buy the newspapers, subscribe to the newsfeeds, and search out media sources in hopes of finding out what color Britney's socks were today. Get a motivation for your life. Wake up, America.
Britney Spears wasn't born messed up BUT if it wasn't for bad judgement and poor choices she would have had no judgement and choices. She is a long long way past the point of no return in my opinion.
There are legal remedies in my state to have someone who is obviously a danger to themselves and others be made to receive psych help (commitment).
SOMEONE in the position to do so should take the necessary steps to get her the help she so desperately needs.
and please let her 15 minutes of fame be over already!!! She is the product of an old time stage mother with a dash of her own delusions of grandeur who should have just stayed in her hometown.
fortunately or unfortunately her antics there would blend in with the rest of the low class white trash.