Comments on: Britney, authenticity and Coldplay: News, culture and Gen Y http://www.julieleung.com/archives/205 pictures and stories from the water's edge Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:08:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Julie http://www.julieleung.com/archives/205/comment-page-1#comment-156 Julie Sat, 08 Nov 2003 22:51:38 +0000 http://www.julieleung.com/wordpress/?p=205#comment-156 Yeah, the tone of the article did make me question what was written. But I think my concerns are still true. I've gotten behind on news and I wasn't familiar with what Kendel Ehrlich said - here's CNN's report on that ironic incident... Yeah, the tone of the article did make me question what was written. But I think my concerns are still true.

I’ve gotten behind on news and I wasn’t familiar with what Kendel Ehrlich said – here’s CNN’s report on that ironic incident…

]]> By: Gordon Weakliem http://www.julieleung.com/archives/205/comment-page-1#comment-155 Gordon Weakliem Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:38:53 +0000 http://www.julieleung.com/wordpress/?p=205#comment-155 Lorraine Ali (the author of the Newsweek piece), either has a great flair for irony or exhibits exactly the same sort of innocent crassness she sees in her subject. I love how she wrote this with an (apparently) straight face: "Kendel Ehrlich, wife of Maryland’s governor, recently told an audience at a conference against domestic violence that she would shoot [Britney] Spears if she had a gun." I had to reread that twice and I nearly missed her cute line later: "For Spears, freedom is sometimes just another word for nothing left to lose." Lorraine Ali (the author of the Newsweek piece), either has a great flair for irony or exhibits exactly the same sort of innocent crassness she sees in her subject. I love how she wrote this with an (apparently) straight face: “Kendel Ehrlich, wife of Maryland’s governor, recently told an audience at a conference against domestic violence that she would shoot [Britney] Spears if she had a gun.” I had to reread that twice and I nearly missed her cute line later: “For Spears, freedom is sometimes just another word for nothing left to lose.”

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