Reply #3: Here's my thing [View All]

[MissMillie]

I don't know anything about Britney Spears. I really don't. I won't pretend that the National Enquirer is a good enough source for me to use as a basis to judge her life and even if it were, I think my energies are better spent elsewhere.

I hope that if she's in trouble, she finds some help. I hope that her kids grow up healthy and well-adjusted.

I'm not a fan of her music, but I don't believe that her being famous is keeping anyone else from being discovered (it's not a zero-sum thing for me). If she can feed her family by making music, then so be it.

What really pisses me off is that this sort of "news" somehow gets precedence over important stuff. Britney's back in rehab--that's news? An astronaut involved in a love-triangle--That's front page stuff? Anna Nicole's body was embalmed but not buried--well so what, neither has James Brown's.

And some of our most cherished newspeople are guilty of putting this on the front burner--Olbermann!!!

Two weeks ago a leader of the insurgency in Iraq made a statement about what would have to happen for the bloodshed to end there. It was printed in The Independent (Britain). Where was it on the news in the U.S.? Somewhere behind the story of Anna Nicole and astronaut triangle, that's where.

Why aren't we demanding more of our news media?