2. A Paparazzi Gold Rush | Just Like Us: The Tabloids That Changed America

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🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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So who exactly are all those photographers who swarm Britney Spears with cameras and shouting? And who’s paying them to do this? In this episode, we take a look at the paparazzi that kept the tabloid glossies filled with pictures and meet some paps who worked during the tabloid heyday. Just how far would you go to get a picture worth six figures? Host: Clare Malone Producers: Amanda Dobbins, Sean Fennessey, Juliet Litman, Vikram Patel, and Kaya McMullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	America has spent a lot of the past couple years reconsidering things.
0:08.7	Among them is how we treated Britney Spears in 2007 and 2008.
0:14.3	Pretty much everyone agrees it was not great.
0:18.0	The New York Times has extensively reported on how her conservatorship trapped Britney
0:22.5	in a dystopian controlling little world.
0:25.8	That's only deepened our retrospective national queesiness.
0:29.6	We were, as a society, pretty callous towards her.
0:34.8	Here's a 2007 CNN news report with anchors TJ Holmes and Betty Wynn.
0:40.4	We will turn now to the story that is burning up the internet, it's burning up the water
0:45.7	cooler talk.
0:46.7	It's just burning this morning.
0:47.7	Yes.
0:48.7	Britney Spears.
0:49.7	She's bald.
0:50.7	Uh, we've got this photo now from the x17online.com and it appears to show the pop star shaving
0:57.6	her own head.
1:00.0	This is the same CNN that made its bones covering the first Gulf War.
1:04.7	And okay, the OJ trial too.
1:07.5	In 2007, everyone was obsessed with following what was going on in Britney Spears' life.
1:13.0	It was a micro-economy unto itself that mainstream TV news wanted in on.
1:20.1	The CNN anchors proceed to interview an us-weekly editor named Bradley Jacobs.
1:24.9	Bradley, did she say why?
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