Traister: Enough Britney Spears Bashing Already

Rebecca Traister of Salon.com is weighing in on the reaction to Britney Spears’ meltdown after the singer checked into rehab for a third try on Wednesday night. “Perhaps it is Anna Nicole Smith’s recent demise that is casting an unflattering pall on Spears’ otherwise compelling tale,” Traister writes, “though wasn’t Princess Diana’s death supposed to remind us that it’s all fun and games until someone loses a life? Maybe it’s simply that in a celebrity universe in which their problems – controversial adoptions of African babies, multimillion-dollar divorces, affairs with backup dancers – seem deeply unreal to those of us back on planet Earth, the Spears saga reeks of familiar all-too-human ick.” Read more.