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10/14/09
"Dugard was not interviewed by the magazine, although people close to her spoke at length about her rehabilitation and that of her two daughters, Angel, 15, and Starlit, 11. Dugard and her daughters are recovering from their long ordeal at an undisclosed location in northern California; Jaycee’s mother, Terry Probyn, is with them.
The 10-page article is accompanied by many pictures of Dugard and her mother. Dugard’s daughters are shown only from the back.
TODAY’s Matt Lauer asked People’s managing editor, Larry Hackett, if the magazine paid for the photographs, which were taken by a private photographer engaged by the family."
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And for others, they do it for altruistic reasons-- to give a voice to those who can't afford their own representation in the criminal justice system (many of whom *are* innocent). Perhaps a legal Jezzie can clarify-- I was under the impression that as a PD you can't pick and choose your cases, and you need valid legal grounds (beyond just finding your defendant creepy) to be recused from a case?
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But as a public defender the amount of cases like Garrido's are a reeeally small percentage. The majority of cases aren't this notorious or out there.
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When I was in law school (I have the degree but chose not to pursue a career in the field), I took a course taught by three appellate defenders. One said that he went into it because "9 out of 10 are guilty, but I do it for the one who isn't."
Sorry to be OT. Jaycee looks lovely and I hope she is recovering well.
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It's sad that she even has to deal with this after all she's been through, but it seems that she's getting some good PR advice so she can continue to privately seek the help and support she needs.
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Staying at home raising a family IS work. Notice if you don't stay home with your kids, you usually have to pay someone else to take care of them. Because it's a JOB.
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But why don't we have the opportunity to think about? Why isn't the interview about Jessica Simpson's design process in making her shoes (if she even does it herself or how she selects her creative team), or how the Kardashian girls tried to distinguish their boutique from others in L.A. to make it successful, etc.? Are these women themselves trying to keep all of their real work behind the curtain, or is it their publicists? Is it just the ladymags who think we would be bored to hear about LC's first experiences with the publishing world?
These women don't have to be boring. So who is making them that way? Why do all of these women ,who have varying degrees of success in their field, painted in such one-dimensional terms?
09/29/09
Maybe they have research showing that readers aren't interested in the kind of information you're suggesting. I mean, I am. You likely are. But there must be some reason why that's not the kind of content being offered.
Or maybe not. Maybe nobody's ever asked readers? Maybe female celebs are expected only to be the pretty face of their empires, and their people worry about audiences being turned off if they demonstrate to great a role in their own enterprises? But I completely agree with you that the writers is wrong about the amount of "work" these women are doing all the time.
09/29/09
I didn't mean to write an essay on the subject, and I'm certainly not rooting for the celebrity-industrial complex wherein people can brand themselves and sell something as a product, which I do find to be rather vacuous in terms of depth, but it still takes effort to do things, this is still a very real business and there is still the very real risk of failure if they do not succeed, and I don't think it's really fair to decide whose job is actual work and whose is not. If we're going down that road, I'd say it's the magazine editors who aren't working.
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I don't actually know anything about Conrad but opportunity is usually more than dumb luck. She had to have a talent of some kind to land a regular starring role on a successful TV show, even if it's a faux reality show.
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meee-meeeeep! *woooooooosh*
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It was pretty great, devoted to the lives of real women and girls in the area. I remember cover photos of 4 generations of women in one family, or a shot of a woman in her Army uniform from the 40s.
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I suppose I wouldn't mind seeing more like Michelle Obama or even Tina Fey types on covers - women who may have celebrity-level fame, but are also noted for their other contributions.
But Julianna Margulies vs. Jessica Simpson? Whatever.