Kanye: MTV exploited Britney for ratings
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Kanye West blames MTV for Britney Spears' less than stellar performance at the Video Music Awards. "Man, they were just trying to get ratings, and they knew she wasn't ready and they exploited her," the 29-year-old rapper said Tuesday on Sirius Satellite Radio's "The Morning Mash Up."
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Sour grapes from Kanye West &#151; again. Shut out at the Video Music Awards, Kanye West threw a tantrum Sunday night in front of media and crew backstage as the MTV show was ending.
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Britney Spears is having a bad week. A day after she lost visitation rights to her two young sons, the pop star drove over the foot of a paparazzo on Thursday night while trying to navigate past the hordes of photographers who document her every move.
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You&#39;ve got to hand it to Britney Spears; she&#39;s finally learned the first lesson of fame: Do not trust anyone with anything you want kept private -- even your own mom (especially one who writes an almost daily diary on a Web site dedicated to all things
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Singer Britney Spears says she has taken control of her life after being "naive" and pushed around by advisors.
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Sarah Silverman still is responding to the negative reaction to her Britney Spears jokes at the MTV Video Music Awards. "The joke that everyone was upset about &#151; me calling the kids `adorable mistakes' &#151; was the most innocuous joke," the 36-year-old comedian tells Us Weekly magazine in the issue that comes out Friday. "It never occurred to me that would be deemed hurtful or over the line."
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The consensus is clear: Britney Spears performed like she was sloshing blindfolded through mud at MTV's Video Music Awards. No one disputes that the troubled pop princess royally mangled her much-heralded comeback.
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Kanye West got beaten up by a woman  on the latest U.S. pop album charts published Wednesday.
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Chartreuse says, &#145;&#145;If Madonna was Marketing 1.0, then Paris Hilton is Marketing 2.0.&#146;&#146; Why? &#145;&#145;Because she is the queen of links.&#146;&#146; Paris never really talks about herself. She talks about other people . . . the designers of her clothes, the clubs she goes to, who she hangs out with. She has garnered what marketers want, attention. But when ...
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MTV -- whose videos killed the radio star -- knows a threat when it sees one. To keep people from abandoning TV for video games, it's making music videos with popular game characters strutting their stuff to the latest tracks. By Daniel Terdiman.
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US television talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw has slammed the media for reporting that he is   exploiting troubled pop star Britney Spears' situation by visiting her in the hospital.
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Ratings for the MTV  Video Music Awards plunged 31% among viewers in the cable  network's target demographic, those aged 12-34.
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Pop stars Justin Timberlake and Beyonce led the nominations for the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday with seven apiece, followed by rapper Kanye West and Barbados teen-ager Rihanna who are both up for five awards.
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A restraining order aimed at Britney Spears' friend and manager Sam Lutfi alleges that he drugged her, took over her life and finances and controlled the paparazzi who pursued her for months.
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MTV loves its Video Music Awards. It gives the youth-culture channel an annual opportunity to strut its biggest stars and thumb its nose at the adult establishment -- maybe even moon it.
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After making headlines for everything but music, Britney Spears is back with an album industry insiders say should top the charts despite her.
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The celebrity lure of the MTV awards was called a contributing factor to one event not being as flashy as promised.