ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 2月13日 03時00分

Fourteen years after Britney Spears’s most publicized crises, some see the media’s hypercritical fixation on her mental health, mothering and sexuality as a broad public failing.

As fans gathered outside a Los Angeles courthouse Thursday in support of the singer’s bid to have her father, Jamie Spears, removed from a conservatorship that oversees her life and finances, others online were asking for apologies from those who made jokes at Spears’s expense or interviewed her in ways now viewed as insensitive and unfair.

On social media, there have been calls for apologies from prominent media figures, including Diane Sawyer, who, in a 2003 interview grilled Spears on what she might have done to upset her ex, Justin Timberlake; Matt Lauer, who pointed to questions about whether she was a “bad mom”; and the comedian Sarah Silverman, who made off-color jokes about Spears at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards.

Silverman, who had joked that Spears’s children were “the most adorable mistakes,” did just that on an episode of her podcast that was released on Thursday, saying that, at the time, she had not understood that big-time celebrities could have their feelings hurt. “Britney, I am so sorry. I feel terribly if I hurt you,” Silverman said.

The breathless, wall-to-wall coverage of Spears’s travails in 2007 by glossy magazines, supermarket tabloids, mainstream newspapers and television shows is now being re-examined in the wake of a new documentary about Spears and her troubles by The Times. The tabloids had long been obsessed with Spears since her days as a teenage bubble-gum pop sensation, but the coverage reached a new level of intensity during her mid-20s.

The paparazzi that followed Spears nearly everywhere left her exasperated and helped fuel public displays of frustration. Magazines, in turn, covered her aggressively. Tap the link in our bio to read more about @ブリトニー・スピアーズ and calls for the media and others to make amends. Photo by @cpizzello/@apnews

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