CALL TO CHARGE PREGNANT 16-YEAR-OLD SUPER-SKANK JAMIE LYNN SPEARS’ BOYFRIEND WITH RAPE
December 27th 2007 20:43
TV Week reports that with Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old star of Nickelodeon's series Zoey 101, announcing she's pregnant, the kids network is considering airing a special on love and sex from Linda Ellerbee.
Ellerbee has done Nick News specials on other sensitive topics, including same-sex parents and the impeachment of President Clinton.
Nickelodeon has not said much about Ms Spears, sister of singer Britney Spears, or the show, other than releasing a supportive statement.
"We respect Jamie Lynn's decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation,” the statement said. “We know this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary concern right now is for Jamie Lynn's well-being."
The third season of Zoey 101 ends on January 4. The network has already shot the fourth and final season of the series and was scheduled to air it later in 2008.
But the news of Spear’s pregnancy has of course triggered a wave of media comment, and it has sent Walter Brasch, professor of journalism at Bloomsburg University in the US, particularly gaga.
In an article, published in Australia by Online Opinion he wrote,
“Ever vigilant, the mass media dug into a critical social issue and rooted out the information in their never-ending quest to guarantee the people’s right to know.
“The people’s right to know, they decided, was that 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears, star of Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101, is pregnant. Jamie Lynn is the younger sister of Britney Spears, the former Mouseketeer who has combined a chart-topping career as a singer and dancer with being America’s Celebrity Super-Skank.
“The National Enquirer first broke the story about Jamie Lynn in its July 28 issue. Unfortunately, Jamie Lynn wasn’t pregnant at the time.
“Shortly after the Enquirer’s story appeared, and thousands of bloggers became sexually active, Jamie Lynn’s ‘good name’ became semen-stained when she became pregnant, probably in September. The father is 19-year-old Casey Aldridge, who lived with Jamie Lynn and her mother in an LA condo, and followed the teen mini-star to the Zoey 101 set almost every day. So far, no one is filing any statutory rape charges.
“True to the ethics and business practices of tween celebs, Jamie Lynn hid the news until she could find a price high enough. High enough to run the story was OK! magazine, which put Jamie Lynn and a mega-hype teaser on its cover, and trumpeted the six-page in-depth investigation as a “world exclusive”.
“In true media tradition, the “news” was released a day before the magazine appeared on the shelves, December 19, two weeks before its cover date. Circulation was expected to rise faster than a pubescent boy’s hormones.
Naturally, the rest of the messed-up mainstream and alternative media also had to jump onto the story. OK!’s not-so-hard news interview led the news segments of the network morning shows, was discussed thoroughly by the mid-morning and afternoon talk shows, and was featured by CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News - which paused just long enough to report a fire in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House; a chemical plant explosion in Jacksonville, Fla. that killed three and injured 14; and the President signing an Energy Bill.
“Radio, the blogosphere, and the internet-based newspapers wasted no time polluting the airwaves and the world’s bandwidths; print newspapers were caught in the wrong news cycle and had to publish “day after” not-so-investigative stories. Under reported, or not reported at all by most of the media, was that in four separate instances in Iraq, seven civilians were killed and 27 wounded. Nevertheless, enquiring American minds wanted to know all there was about Jamie Lynn: within a day, Google recorded more than 150,000 separate stories and blogger comments.”
- From MediaBlab
Ellerbee has done Nick News specials on other sensitive topics, including same-sex parents and the impeachment of President Clinton.
Nickelodeon has not said much about Ms Spears, sister of singer Britney Spears, or the show, other than releasing a supportive statement.
"We respect Jamie Lynn's decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation,” the statement said. “We know this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary concern right now is for Jamie Lynn's well-being."
But the news of Spear’s pregnancy has of course triggered a wave of media comment, and it has sent Walter Brasch, professor of journalism at Bloomsburg University in the US, particularly gaga.
In an article, published in Australia by Online Opinion he wrote,
“Ever vigilant, the mass media dug into a critical social issue and rooted out the information in their never-ending quest to guarantee the people’s right to know.
“The people’s right to know, they decided, was that 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears, star of Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101, is pregnant. Jamie Lynn is the younger sister of Britney Spears, the former Mouseketeer who has combined a chart-topping career as a singer and dancer with being America’s Celebrity Super-Skank.
“The National Enquirer first broke the story about Jamie Lynn in its July 28 issue. Unfortunately, Jamie Lynn wasn’t pregnant at the time.
“True to the ethics and business practices of tween celebs, Jamie Lynn hid the news until she could find a price high enough. High enough to run the story was OK! magazine, which put Jamie Lynn and a mega-hype teaser on its cover, and trumpeted the six-page in-depth investigation as a “world exclusive”.
“In true media tradition, the “news” was released a day before the magazine appeared on the shelves, December 19, two weeks before its cover date. Circulation was expected to rise faster than a pubescent boy’s hormones.
Naturally, the rest of the messed-up mainstream and alternative media also had to jump onto the story. OK!’s not-so-hard news interview led the news segments of the network morning shows, was discussed thoroughly by the mid-morning and afternoon talk shows, and was featured by CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News - which paused just long enough to report a fire in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House; a chemical plant explosion in Jacksonville, Fla. that killed three and injured 14; and the President signing an Energy Bill.
“Radio, the blogosphere, and the internet-based newspapers wasted no time polluting the airwaves and the world’s bandwidths; print newspapers were caught in the wrong news cycle and had to publish “day after” not-so-investigative stories. Under reported, or not reported at all by most of the media, was that in four separate instances in Iraq, seven civilians were killed and 27 wounded. Nevertheless, enquiring American minds wanted to know all there was about Jamie Lynn: within a day, Google recorded more than 150,000 separate stories and blogger comments.”
- From MediaBlab
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