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Britney Spears: It’s all LA’s fault

September 26, 2007

Alas, my City of Angels, does no one respect or love you?  Britney Spears is the latest to diss “Sodom by the Sea” (or insert your own pejorative here).  “I HATE L.A., I’m so sick of that town. I don’t want anyone to know I’m here in Atlanta,” she revealed to a shop clerk and a few million people on a shopping trip to the mall there.

She is of course a victim of the town, not of herself.  But blaming “the dream factory”, “would you really want to raise your kids in LA” (as if Britney might do a better job elsewhere), etc. has a long tradition.  As the late San Francisco columnist Herb Caen put it, “Knock San Francisco to a San Franciscan and you’re starting a fight.  Knock LA to someone from there and you’re starting a conversation.”

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Justin Timberlake Takes the High Road

September 20, 2007

It’s always tempting to bash a competitor or someone you were close to, especially when they’re down.  But when I do media training, I always counsel spokespeople to take the high road, even when the reporter brings up a competitor by name. 

First, don’t mention that company or person by name, second, acknowledge your rival in a positive way, as in “the company you mention is certainly a worthy competitor, but what makes us different is…”

Justin Timberlake just did this in his interview with Oprah.   Oprah asked Justin what he thinks is happening to his former girlfriend Britney Spears.

He said he didn’t know, but added, “What I do know about her is she has a huge heart, and she is a great person.” 

Knowing when to take the high road about a former friend now in trouble, instead of taking the cheap shot like so many others, shows Justin Timberlake has a good heart–and is destined for a long career.

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Britney Bombs, Eat Her Now

September 10, 2007

From Beijing to Brooklyn, the verdict is in: Britney Spears is over.  Not only was she dazed, sluggish and confused on the ‘prestigious’ Video Music Awards, where even her lip-synching was off, but most unforgivably she was fat.

Meanwhile General Petraeus wants 6 more months of maximum troops in Iraq, the credit and stock markets are melting and Osama Bin Ladin says he won’t try to kill us all–if we convert.

But Britney’s a train wreck and we’re pushing her over the cliff as fast as we can; will her children understand?  So let’s concentrate our fire on this poor girl and serve her head on a platter, like her fellow dancing girl, Salome, did.

Britney Spears 

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