R. Kelly, Britney Spears, And The Rise Of 'Consequence Culture'
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🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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NPR's TV critic Eric Deggans discusses the role documentary series have played in cases like R. Kelly's and Britney Spears. He says it's part of a larger movement that some are calling "consequence culture."
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| 0:00.0 | In a New York City courtroom last week, the R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty. |
| 0:06.5 | After decades of suspicion and allegations, jury finding the singer guilty of racketeering |
| 0:12.1 | and sex trafficking. |
| 0:13.1 | And at the time of those crimes, many of the victims were teenage girls. |
| 0:17.9 | Dozens of witnesses coming forward with depraved allegations of abuse, physical, emotional, |
| 0:26.3 | sexual, unaccounted. |
| 0:27.3 | Kelly now faces a possible sentence of 10 years to life in prison. |
| 0:31.6 | This was actually something that was decades in the making. |
| 0:34.8 | Days later, in a Los Angeles courtroom, a judge suspended Jamie Spears as the conservator |
| 0:40.8 | of his daughter, Britney Spears, a state. |
| 0:43.0 | A judge making the ruling just moments ago ending the 13-year arrangement, the pop star |
| 0:47.6 | called abusive. |
| 0:49.0 | Britney Spears had been living with this conservator ship since 2008, which meant her father controlled |
| 0:54.9 | nearly all decisions about her personal life and finances. |
| 0:59.5 | Now these two cases are completely unrelated. |
| 1:02.6 | Yet, they have one crucial thing in common, a massive online following. |
| 1:08.6 | A long-awaited win for the free Britney movement. |
| 1:11.8 | And an entire ecosystem of think pieces and documentaries which feed that online conversation. |
| 1:18.3 | The development falls on the heels of an explosive New York Times documentary detailing |
| 1:22.9 | allegations that Jamie Spears. |
| 1:24.2 | So the surviving Archelle Docky series really just exposed a lot of what Black women organizers. |
| 1:30.1 | A documentary or a special report or an investigation can remind people of what happened and say, |
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