Britney Spears, Mental Illness and the Tabloids
Is the celebrity press approaching a Joseph Welch moment?
Welch was the Army attorney who put a stake through McCarthyism with his famous "Have you no sense of decency?" outburst. Now a growing chorus of voices is demanding the same of People, Us Weekly, TMZ, and all the other outlets that trade on the private lives of public figures -- even figures who are medically incapable of defending themselves.
The catalyst for this is, appropriately enough, someone whose rise to fame ushered in the current era of tabloid insanity: Britney Spears ...





