- Senator Demands FBI Investigate Rupert Murdoch For Hacking Rival And Stealing The Contents Of Their Business Computers, JudiciaryReport.com, July 26, 2011.
4. It’s a sickness alright, but after Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse and now Whitney Houston, are we all hooked?
In America the revolving door of rehab is ghoulishly glamorous.
Think of Spears, Lohan and Sheen. Stalked by the paparazzi, their travails sensationalised in supermarket tabloids, they’re more famous for their spectacular fall from grace than their original success. Winning, right?
After the booze, drugs and sex, when stars fall apart or cross the law, there’s always the prospect of an emergency dash to a clinic or through a media gauntlet outside court.
No need to feel guilty. They have everything.
And even in decline they still get the attention they clearly crave. In the end fame is the ultimate addiction.
“Whitney Houston wanted to kill herself. Nobody takes drugs for that long if they want to stay on the planet,” Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly told his cable television audience.
Then in a column and follow-up appearance on morning television he rounded on the US media saying it had “no bleeping clue” how to cover her death.
“We, the media, looked the other way on Whitney Houston, everyone knew she was a drug addict for two decades,” he declared.
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