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As an advocate for all things gossip, I was offended by Amanda Cole’s March 3 article “Britney Spears isn’t real news” — not because I think that Spears’ lapses and recoveries should be splattered across the front page of the news, but because the article was an attack on popular culture and on our society’s habits of news consumption.

“People should expect to see real news, not pop culture news,” Cole writes. This statement implies that popular culture isn’t real news or worthy of printing. Writing that article was a testament to the realness of popular culture as news, as Cole felt the need to respond to the fact that Spears is making headlines. If popular culture wasn’t important, why would Cole write a whole article...

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