From: www.examiner.com
Britney Spears died on Friday according to more rumors. Has Britney Spears died? No, Britney Spears is not dead, and rumors like this are getting to the point of being quite annoying on the internet. This is another rumor that has been started by the same people being "credited" with the Kanye West death rumor. "Credited" has to be kept in quotations, because this is just a sick way for people to start rumors about someone they probably haven't met, and most likely won't ever meet in their lifetimes. Britney Spears is just becoming the latest victim of this trend of fake celebrity death reports that seem to be increasing in frequency.
There are some key points that you need to remember in this day and age, and the primary one is that if someone like Britney Spears died, it would be plastered all over reliable news sources before the rumor mill were to run wild with it. The reason for that, is that news sources are looking for stories like this 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and when they catch wind that something like this might have happened, they do their quick research to find out if it's true. There is a lot of money in it for web sites to be the first to report on the death of a celebrity, and even more for magazines that are looking to sell as many issues as possible surrounding the passing of a celebrity. Because of that, you can expect people at CNN or TMZ to be the first ones to post about a celebrity death, not a two-bit web site that makes up celebrity death rumors.
The fact that sites like the one in question keep making up these celebrity death rumors is that it draws more viewers to their web site, which in turn probably brings them a ton of advertising revenue from all of their readers. We aren't going to be listing the web site that started these current Britney Spears death rumors, as we aren't going to drive any more traffic in their direction. We also aren't going to fall prey to the dozens of fake user names they have created on sites like Twitter to try and spread their rumors faster. Britney Spears is not dead, and you can expect her or someone working for her to make a statement confirming that she is still alive very soon. Don't fall for the rumors, and don't give the web site that created the rumors more traffic than they deserve.
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