article_snippet.sent: These days, there's nothing we love more than an example of a celebrity fall from grace, whether it's Lindsay Lohan or Brian Williams or Britt McHenry, who was judged not on the facts
article_snippet.sent: but on what we take particular joy in believing: that the over-privileged and semi-famous do not necessarily deserve a fair trial.
article_snippet.sent: our're a society obsessed with putting celebrities on a pedestal -- celebrating celebrities, compensating celebrities.