To C.P.T.L.:

I empathize with your sentiments. This website is really better than this level of topic. It’s the kind of thing that, a few years back, kind of threw me off, when I originally visited the Huffingtonpost website, and was expecting it to be on the same thoughtful level as Truthdig is.

Both Robert Scheer and Arianna Huffington are obviously reflective and intelligent people. And when I was made aware of the radio program “Left, Right, and Center”, of which they’re both co-hosts, I really liked it. I shortly thereafter visited their respective websites, and initially enjoyed them both.

But I kept being surprised at the level of pap, tabloid-style journalism at the Huffingtonpost, mixed with intelligent commentary. I kept thinking that there was something wrong there, and that they needed to fix it. 

After awhile, I realized that the worst of tabloid journalism was simply going to take it’s place, alongside the more clear-minded journalism over there. There was nothing anybody could do about it. And the reader responses, and obscenity-laced name-calling between readers, just go on for pages, ad-nauseum.

My point is that one of the two websites generally gives us substantive information, pretty consistently. And you could make a case for the occasionally less serious, tabloid-style materials occasionally making their way here, just for a little bit of variety.

And, for what it’s worth, Phil Spector really had an impact on music, particularly in the ‘60’s. The Beatles were very influenced by him, and wanted to meet him on their first trip to the U.S. I personally own his boxed set of music. He did so much great material over an extended period of time.

It’s a shame his legacy will have such a taint on it. He’s significant enough that I can see a reason for this story running here.

On the other hand, if you want to know all about Lindsay Lohan’s latest bummer, you can read all about it at the Huffingtonpost. Or watch it on “Entertainment Tonight”...

I pity the prison that has to put up with that whiny bastard. I look for him to spend long periods of time lounging around the prison infrimary demanding to be waited on hand and foot while screaming…“Don’t you know who I am?”

Losey murdering thug!

I defy a TruthDig editor to respond to this comment with one sound justification for the inclusion of this B.S. story. 

I don’t come to TruthDig for this tabloid crap and suspect many others are as disappointed to have it visited into their lives here as well; and though I continue to expect better of this website, though I continue to expect that some one or more persons pretending to the title of TruthDig ‘editor’ might have the mature adult discretion to not gum at whatever topical pap comes spooned their way, I’m often wondering why I invest such hope here. Perhaps it’s because you are clearly capable of a higher order, often achieving it, (Chris Hedges’ columns alone have gained you a rare summit), but then squander an important wholeness with a particularly base chuck-it-down-the-gutter offhandedness as you’ve done here.

God Bless the JURY…They finally got one right in California…...Refreshing to see the the jury really took time to access the facts…minus the fiction…Good for them….This little troll got what he has deserevd for years…A PRISION CELL…...just goes to show yeah that not all hollywood fatcats walk away.there is justice..Spector couldn’t buy himself outa this one..THANK GOD…...and age has not done him any good..Man is he FUGLY !  I betcha he cuts his wife outa everything now…..

Regardless of who is convicted in these crimes, I find it hard to agree with the decision to put verifiably in insane people in jail rather than in an institution.  I realize the definition of insanity is different in criminal law than anywhere else in the world but I still find it wrong.  He is crazy.  He’s been crazy for a LONG time.  This is verified by several sources.  He is not in total control of his actions.  He shouldn’t go free but putting him in a normal max prison is cruel and unusual.