Star Magazine/Dr Laura
TSNowWhat?
> I may lose what little credibility I may have here, but the grocery store
> tabloid "Star Magazine" this week has a story about our own DL and her big
> mouth regarding TS. I tried to find it under starmagazine.com, but that site
> only has some of the celebrity stories that were in the edition. There is a
> paragraph I love:
> "Eventually, Dr. Laura read to her dwindling audience of 15 million listeners a
> statement
> in which she apologized and found a better solution to the wedding question.
> 'Rather than omitting the child,' she said, 'the parents could sit with him
> near an exit so that they could leave if necessary.' "
>
> "But Alan Krawitz of the national Tourette's Syndrome Association said Dr.
> Laura should think before talking."
Eve, I went out and picked up the most recent (June 26th) version of the
Star Magazine and couldn't find this article. Do you still have access
to it, do you know which date the story ran, and/or do you have access
to the full story anywhere? Did they provide the website or any of the
boycott info? Did they provide websites to any accurate info about TS?
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TSNowWhat?
> Hi: Yes I do still have the mag, but it's dated Jul 3, 2001 and is still the
> most current issue in my grocery store. We get new weekly magazines on
> Thursdays in my area. It's a short article, so if you can't find it, I can
> input it, since the starmagazine.com site doesn't have this article on-line.
> It's no problem. Just let me know.
>
> To answer your other questions, this article only discribed the call and DL's
> response; also the "supposed" explanation that she gave using data from a 16 yo
> medical book.
> It didn't discuss any protests, boycotts or provide any websites. It was
> by-lined "Jose Lambiet's Confidential".
> Your Faithful Serpent, Eve
>
Eve, if it's the July 3rd issue, then it's not in our stores yet -- the
latest we had was June 26th. I'll keep watching for it to come out,
rather than ask you to type it in ... thanks !!
TSNowWhat?
>
> > Hi: Yes I do still have the mag, but it's dated Jul 3, 2001 and is still the
> > most current issue in my grocery store.
Got the July 3rd issue ... been through it three times ... can't find
the article ... ?????? What page? Are there different versions of this
magazine in different parts of the country?
jennybravo
>
> > Eve wrote:
> >
> > > Hi: Yes I do still have the mag, but it's dated Jul 3, 2001 and is still the
> > > most current issue in my grocery store.
>
> Got the July 3rd issue ... been through it three times ... can't find
> the article ... ?????? What page? Are there different versions of this
> magazine in different parts of the country?
page 22, top of the page. I don't know if there are different versions though...
>
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thought provoking words:
>> Got the July 3rd issue ... been through it three times ... can't find
>> the article ... ?????? What page? Are there different versions of this
>> magazine in different parts of the country?
>
>page 22, top of the page. I don't know if there are different versions though...
Are you talking about the same paper?
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LisaViger
>From: jennybravo jais...@worldnet.att.net
>Date: 6/26/01 10:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <3B394CFC...@worldnet.att.net>
>
>TSNowWhat? wrote:
>>
>> > Eve wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi: Yes I do still have the mag, but it's dated Jul 3, 2001 and is
>still the
>> > > most current issue in my grocery store.
>>
>> Got the July 3rd issue ... been through it three times ... can't find
>> the article ... ?????? What page? Are there different versions of this
>> magazine in different parts of the country?
>
>page 22, top of the page. I don't know if there are different versions
>though...
There *must* be different versions of the magazine. I bought the July 3
issue and can't find the article either, anywhere, including on page 22
(arrgh).
Is it a long article? Would anyone be willing to take the time to type it
in here?
Warm Regards,
Lisa
TSNowWhat?
>
> TSNowWhat? wrote:
> >
> > > Eve wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi: Yes I do still have the mag, but it's dated Jul 3, 2001 and is still the
> > > > most current issue in my grocery store.
> >
> > Got the July 3rd issue ... been through it three times ... can't find
> > the article ... ?????? What page? Are there different versions of this
> > magazine in different parts of the country?
>
> page 22, top of the page. I don't know if there are different versions though...
My page 22 is a full page article about Tiger Woods, with a small blurb
at the bottom of the page about Madonna.
<sigh> ...
So, can someone post or e-mail the text ?
TSNowWhat?
>
> 'Twas Wed, 27 Jun 2001 02:53:38 GMT when the wise and venerated jennybravo
> <jais...@worldnet.att.net> enlightened alt.support.tourette with these
> thought provoking words:
>
> >> Got the July 3rd issue ... been through it three times ... can't find
> >> the article ... ?????? What page? Are there different versions of this
> >> magazine in different parts of the country?
> >
> >page 22, top of the page. I don't know if there are different versions though...
>
> Are you talking about the same paper?
Good question.
I'm talking about a supermarket tabloid called "Star."
The July 3, 2001 issue.
The cover has Kim Basinger's Worst Nightmare, Cher Tragedy, Missing
Intern, and Rocker Tommy Lee Accused ...
It includes a URL on the cover page of
http://www.starmagazine.com
It is Volume 28, Issue 27, published weekly by Star Editorial, Inc. in
Boca Raton, FL.
TSNowWhat?
> There *must* be different versions of the magazine. I bought the July 3
> issue and can't find the article either, anywhere, including on page 22
> (arrgh).
I'm on the East Coast.
JB found it, and she's on the West Coast ...
Maybe it's only a West Coast story, because LS is in LA?
Lisa, we're out $4 !!!
(Plus the embarrassment of walking into a store twice and buying the
thing ... :-))
Ellen
> LisaViger wrote:
>
>> There *must* be different versions of the magazine. I bought the July 3
>> issue and can't find the article either, anywhere, including on page 22
>> (arrgh).
>
> I'm on the East Coast.
> JB found it, and she's on the West Coast ...
> Maybe it's only a West Coast story, because LS is in LA?
>
> Lisa, we're out $4 !!!
> (Plus the embarrassment of walking into a store twice and buying the
> thing ... :-))
NO!!! You don't BUY those things! You look for the longest checkout line,
preferably behind someone with a heaping load in their carts, and read it
while you are waiting. ; )
E
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jennybravo
Yep, That's the same one I have......The cover also has "More Gossip" 60 star-studded
pages, more photos!" next to the logo.
TSNowWhat?
>
> Yep, That's the same one I have......The cover also has "More Gossip" 60 star-studded
> pages, more photos!" next to the logo.
Mine doesn't have 60 star-studded pages, more photos!
I WANT MY MONEY BACK !!
<grin>
TSNowWhat?
>
>
> NO!!! You don't BUY those things! You look for the longest checkout line,
> preferably behind someone with a heaping load in their carts, and read it
> while you are waiting. ; )
ELLEN?
Puh-lease!
Do you know what it took to get me IN to the supermarket to BEGIN with?
(My husband picked up the first one for me when he did the shopping, but
I was forced to go in for this one.)
jennybravo
Okay! Here I go, with my world famous typing skills! (not)
Oops, she did it again. That fat thing in the mouth of abrasive radio
advice giver Dr. Laura?
That's her foot. Barely a year after calling gay folks "deviant" and
"biological errors", Dr. Laura Schlessinger has kicked up another
firestorm. This time, it's with Tourette's syndrome sufferers and their
families.
Strict discliplinarian Dr. Laura last month talked on the air about a
bride who wanted to to exclude her 12 year old nephew from her wedding.
Why? Because the kid suffers from Tourette's, a condition that causes
physical tics. In 10 percent of the cases, patients uncontrollably utter
obscenities.
In her answer to the caller, Dr. Laura OK'd banning the sick kid. With
disgust dripping from her voice, Dr. Laura added it would be normal for
the bride not to want the presence of the nephew "who will scream out
vulgarities in the middle of the wedding." To make her point, she said:
"I'm going to come to your party and just scream: 'F-you, f-you, f-you'
every five seconds, and see if you want to invite me back...It's
inappropriate behavior no matter waht's engendering it."
This sparked a deluge of mail to the not-so-good doctor's LA office
(actually she holds a Ph.D in physiology, not medicine) from offended
listeners. Undeterred, Dr. Laura got back on the air four days later and
stuck the proverbial foot further in. Telling the audience "as a
scientist", she did research, she then quoted several facts about the
disorder from a psychiatry book. But the book is 16 years old and didn't
mention new research.The wave of protests swelled.
Eventually Dr. Laura read to her dwindling audience of 15 million
listeners a statement in which she apologized and found a better
solution to the wedding question."Rather than omitting the child," she
said,"the parents could sit with him near an exit so that they could
leave if necessary."
But Alan Krawitz of the national Tourette's Syndrome association said
Dr. laura should think before talking.
"Dr. Laura was very callous and uninformed about T.S.," Krawitz said.
"she should be a little more sensitive to people's plights."
TSNowWhat?
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Good report, except for one error ... she did *not* apologize.
http://www.drlaura.com/monologue/index.html?mode=view&tile=1&id=761
Kudos to our friend who got the story to run!
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Ellen
> Ellen wrote:
>>
>>
>> NO!!! You don't BUY those things! You look for the longest checkout line,
>> preferably behind someone with a heaping load in their carts, and read it
>> while you are waiting. ; )
>
>
> ELLEN?
> Puh-lease!
> Do you know what it took to get me IN to the supermarket to BEGIN with?
> (My husband picked up the first one for me when he did the shopping, but
> I was forced to go in for this one.)
I'M SORRY!!! I forgot who I was talking to! It will never happen again!
E
BTW, I was in a line at Target, and it isn't on p.22 in the Midwest edition
either. Just Tiger and Madonna. The line wasn't long enough for me to search
the other pages for it. Okay, and I admit, I forgot what it was I was
searching for....sheesh!
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not JB's typing... ; ))
jennybravo at jais...@worldnet.att.net wrote on 27.06.01 2:41 PM:
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jennybravo
I MEANT to do that! But after I finished reading it, I just had to find
out about the missing intern and the Congressman. And of course, "Bully"
Alec Baldwin, and, and, and...it's just all so fascinating in a car
wreck kinda way...I'm so ashamed!!!!
jennybravo
My existence as a dragon seemed futile.
A.S. Toor
>
> E
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LisaViger
Thanks so much, Jai, for taking the time to type that all out :). You're a
peach.
I think it's quite a decent article (except for the "apology" mistake and
the word "suffers".......and a few other things, but I guess one can't expect
perfection). I was also happy the "protest" part made it in there.
I wonder if this will show up in the East Coast version next week? (TSNW,
are you up to buying one more issue? No? OK, I will :). With an overall
circulation of 20 million, I wonder in just what regions this article was
published........
It was a decent article overall, and a long one by the Star's standards.
If anyone wants to contact the writer, Jose Lambiet, with any comments, he can
be e-mailed at jlam...@starmagazine.com.
Thanks again, Jai, for your patience and typing skills :).
Warm Regards,
Lisa (not ashamed I contacted the Star, but feeling kind of funny that I asked
the manager of the local grocery exactly *when,* precisely, the new issue would
be there......but mostly just relieved it was a decent article <whew!>.......)
>Subject: Re: Star Magazine/Dr Laura
>From: jennybravo jais...@worldnet.att.net
>Date: 6/27/01 3:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <3B3A392F...@worldnet.att.net>
Kathleen
Thanks Jenny!
I was curious to know what they had written but didn't want to slog
through all those mags in order to find the right one (presuming it's
still on the shelf). Kudos, and thanks again.
I wanted to add my two cents:
I am delighted that the reporter included Laura's first "apology."
Although I was very annoyed that Laura referred to herself as a
scientist and therefore "KNEW" she was right about TS, I was even more
annoyed that she maligned the TSA as an ill-intentioned special
interest group.
I'm glad the article explained that she had consulted an out-of-date
text. Reading between the lines somewhat, it seems to read that not
only is Laura not a healthcare professional, but as a biologist her
ability to do very general research is in question.
I also really liked those closing words: "she should be a little more
sensitive to people's plights."
Kathleen
KATHRYN A TAUBERT
> "Dr. Laura was very callous and uninformed about T.S.," Krawitz said.
> "she should be a little more sensitive to people's plights."
> --
>
> jennybravo
Thanks, JB, for posting this. And we can ALL thank LisaViger for contacting
Star in the first place! (ok, she SAID she didn't care WHO knew it!!!).
Nice goin', LV.
Anybody who can get a good story on OUR behalf in ANY mag. is ok in MY book!
KAT in CT