The Britney Smear Boycott

Enough is enough! Just as Dr. Phil McGraw has claimed to step up to the plate to be proactive in an onslaught of tragic events in the life of a young pop star, so shall I be. Okay, even if Dr. Phil is not the greatest example of a noble gentleman, it’s time I look to myself to take more control over what I will digest from the media.

That’s right, even that poem I wrote a couple of weeks ago titled “Perhaps it is Far More Easier Than We Thought to Slip Down the Long Dewy Grassy Hill that Leads to the Valley of Public Self Destruction When All Lenses Turn You on Then Turn on You.” Don’t read it. Don’t email it. Don’t even spend a nano-watt of brain energy on it.

All those mesmerizing yet silly gossip rags you see at the checkout lines of the grocery stores, drug stores and newsstands, if they squeeze in any feature on the cover concerning Ms. Spears, don’t buy them. In fact, don’t even pick them up to flip through. Show those unimaginative reporters and publications that you’ll be lending no support to the Britney Smear Nonsense – thank you very much.

If the news program you’re watching is featuring a story on Ms. Spears, turn the channel. You can turn it back if you want once the story is over, or you can just ban them from being viewed for the day (by you). Come on, I believe in you! You can do it. Our media obsession with Brit, surely in no way, is helping her and it’s definitely not helping you.

Don’t get indignant on me now. I know you can do what you want…read what you want, and digest celebrity trash if you want to.