Brit's a Brit? When did that happen?, page 1

Yeah, I'm not so sure, 'though.

Yes, fading stars suddenly find ways to be, if not relevant then, topical.

But watching Britney self-destruct seems (I emphasise seems) to be a damn good indictment of the current media focus on "celebrity" or "personality" at the clear expense of either "issue" or "news".

Yesterday the scroller said a judge had ordered a psychiatric evaluation of Britney to see if she was actually aware of what was happening around her etc.

The fact that she ditched professional photo-sleaze Adnan, if, indeed, he was ever actually her boyfriend, would suggest she's aware enough to know that some low-life was directly profiting from their relationship (pity she couldn't make that distinction when she decided to bang her married backing dancer). The video at the start of the thread would seem to suggest that he was dumb enough to be tipping his erstwhile colleagues off as to where she (and he) would be so they could get their photos and video for the "story".

I guess Britney (and Paris and co) are the perfect indictment of the modern entertainment industry. Remember when she was telling us all that she was a good Christian girl who wouldn't be having pre-marital sex? Yes, I know it was last century, but last century now is a lot less time ago than last century was a decade ago.

In that decade we've seen Britney apparently grow up (if you call that growing up!), Paris prove that celebrity plus money minus brains is a combination that can defeat even a porno movie (Remember all the Hugh Grant/Divine Brown brouhaha? We didn't even have video of that!) and Lindsay Lohan decide that "Latest ex-Child Star Train Wreck" is a worthy prize.

The difference now is that somehow Lindsay Lohan doing exactly what several hundred others have done is now worthy of headline news. Why, it's neither new nor different, so what makes it so special now? Especially when the US is mired in its biggest geo-political mess since Ngo Dinh Diem was shot in the head.

Why is it that an adult's repeated failure to take responsibility for themselves is somehow worthy of my concern? Grow the # up, I say.

Paris Hilton repeatedly breaks the law. She does a fortnight in prison and when she gets out larry King puts her live in front of the whole world and practically gives her a free ride. Okay, he was letting her words, as stupid as they were, speak for themselves, but that only confirms our intelligence, it doesn't help her understand that the rest of us aren't as stupid as her and she needs to stop assuming that we are.

Paris want to go to Rwanda! Why? How on earth does she think that hervisiting the scene of the world's most-recent-but-one genocidal spree will in any way help anybody but herself? She says she wants to use her clebrity to help others, that time in prison gave her perspective etc etc crap crap crap.

Here's a hint, honey, get off the tv screen. That would be the biggest help you could be to anyone. You contribute exactly zero to the human experience. In fact you are the direct cause of a lessening in the human experience.

Having fun in Sundance were you? I hope so. But how many stories weren't told because you were taking up space in the public eye?

How many other stories are not being told because we are all so concerned/overjoyed/astounded by Britney's problems?

Hey, MSM, don't give me that crap about supply and demand. People are not going to switch from CNN to the E Channel just because you stop showing Britney. But they might switch over to Bloomberg if you don't stop showing her.