Please take Brittany Spears off of the Headline News.

[sheshe2]

I feel for her. I do.

Yet she has been the lead story every damn hour today.

Enough. This is why I stopped watching CNN years ago when they covered Natalee Holloway 24/7 for months.

[msongs]

1. celebrity "news" seems more like lounge stuff nt

[Mr.Bill]

2. I appreciate your empathy towards her.

I feel somewhat the same. But I also think the worst thing that could happen to her, given she makes a living on her popularity, would be for the media to stop talking about her. I like that she got a chance to say what she said in court, and I hope it works out for her.

[Hoyt]

3. You definitely have a point about Natalee Holloway. :)

[PoliticAverse]

4. "Leave Brittany alone!" n/t

[JI7]

21. Turns out that guy was right

[RockRaven]

5. I don't know what you're talking about, and I will self-righteously use this to affirm my position

that one's life is more enjoyable when one avoids cable news.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Who is she and what did she do?

Running for NYC mayor or a "Karen" who is refusing to get vaccinated or wear a mask?

[UTUSN]

7. Have never known what her situation is, why there's a guardian. A court has declared her mentally

incompetent? So how can she sing, dance, marry, make money?

[Sgent]

10. She has been declared mentally incompetent

and has a conservator (guardian by another name) in CA. She can do anything that her guardian thinks is in her best interest -- which includes performing since 2008, but he retains the money and decides how its spent. According to her testimony, he is also preventing her from marrying or having an IUD removed.

[obamanut2012]

14. Her father, whom she was estranged from, has total control over her

TOTAL. Since 2008. He doles her out an allowance that is half what he pays himself. She is not allowed to take out her IUD (ie she has to use the BC he wants her to). She is not allowed to marry. He has to approve her friends. He does not allow her to register to vote. He makes her go to the doctors he chooses, including making her take lithium, which she states makes her "drunk," even though other doctors who have reviewed her records say is not the correct meds for her. Yet, he makes sure she tours and makes music so he has lots of money. He has sold his home and now lives in a huge RV in a warehouse filled with her property.

There's more, too.

She is 39. Her mental breakdown was decades ago. She is okay with a financial trust being set up with a wholly neutral trustee, but she wants her life back, and she should.

It is all disgusting. Again, she was estranged from her father for good reason before he was named as her fucking dictator.

It is an important story, because this happens all the time to non-celebs, and it is an abuse of the system.

Compare Jamie Spears to Amanda Bynes parents, who are not in it to explot and abuse their kid.

[Corgigal]

18. It's important to me too,

I had a mental ill brother. We had to get a judge to sign things, to get him in for help and back on his meds. We never did this to him. This is 2021, and Brittany doesn’t even know what legally is file against her because they don’t tell her. She can’t even get her own attorney. No one knows if she was declared incompetent, but she can work 8 shows a week in Vegas.

Sorry, this is more then creepy.

[Generic Brad]

8. I prefer celebrity news to non stop Trump

We have returned to normalcy.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. I feel for her also but this is not headline news

[Demsrule86]

11. I hope it allows her to escape this bullshit legal mess her Father created so he could

steal her money.

[obamanut2012]

15. Yes, it is -- it is a precedent-setting case for disability rights

If she wins -and I hope she does -- it will be life-changing for many disabled folks in the US.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. This case is huge when it comes to disability rights. It's presented as a celebrity story, but if

you watch it as a disability rights story, it hits differently.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Be careful what you ask for.

The lead story this morning is an apartment building collapse. Brittany got pushed way down the list, albeit, not far enough.

I feel for her, too. But, I agree it doesn't deserve the kind of attention it's getting.

[obamanut2012]

17. Yes, it does -- it is a precedent-setting lawsuit for disability rights

This could lead to a change in laws improving the lives of many, many disabled people.

[SharonClark]

19. That would be a good outcome.

I hope she can get out from under her father's control. I've read too many histories about how women were gasllghted by controlling fathers and husbands to find this trivial.

[obamanut2012]

26. Yes, it is really appalling what's been done to her

I compare her bastard father to Amanda Bynes' parents, who do not touch her money at all.

[GoCubsGo]

24. That would be fine if it were being covered in that light, but it's not.

It's being treated as a tabloid story. GMA spent more time covering Justin Timberlake's comments alone than they did the any of the other headline stories, such as apartment collapse and COVID. They barely mentioned anything about disabled rights. In fact, I don't recall that they mentioned them at all.

[obamanut2012]

25. Then you are watching the wrong coverage

I don't watch "tabloidy" entertainment like GMA it The View. Timberlake was also abusive to her.

[USALiberal]

16. You are welcome to turn off the TV!!!! Nt

[SYFROYH]

20. This is bigger than Brittany.

It's really about human rights.

[XanaDUer2]

22. BBC News was covering this story extensively nt

[Treefrog]

23. I've only seen the Britney news at the very end of the hour on CNN.

They’ve been leading with the condo collapse and some political news stories.