Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume Says Biden’s Speech ‘One Of The Best, If Not The Best’ Of His PresidencyCOPYRIGHT 2013 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.hosts excoriated her. People on then-nascent social media platforms laughed at her. Even respected journalists used her as a punchline.
These magazines suggested Spears, Lohan and the like should behave and be thankful for their popularity. They didn’t treat them like people but more like playthings for the public. In fact, just a year after shaving her head, she was forced into a strict conservatorship by her father, Jamie, who used her decision about her hair as one of the reasons to take over everything from her finances to her diet to how often she could see her children.
No one took Spears seriously in the early to mid 2000s, and the memoir makes it clear that wasn’t her fault. Instead, blame a culture that can’t reckon a child star’s early adorableness with a grown woman capable of making her own decisions.Offering women like Spears and Lohan, whom the media unfairly gave just as hard a time during her formative years, a platform to address these media ills is important.