[maeon3]

I want to know if he's going to be held responsible for his punching/assaulting the cameraman with moves he learned from mike tyson.

If this whole situation of him assaulting a cameraman is just swept under the rug, with his managers insisting that he never do anything like that again. It will be an indication that news networks can even be bribed to not report on criminal behavior. I think it's funny the managers are trying to cover up all the court proceedings as Justin leaving for a while to do some secret concerts. Galling. I do hope that he fails in life, show me that this world is indeed a meritocracy after all, and that fortune can purchase fame and success for a while. As long as you pay dearly to sustain it.

I wish I had Justin Bieber's Managers propping me up in life, I'd be a world sensation too if that were so.

[eshvk]

1. Do you actually expect his managers not to try to put a positive spin on it for the media? A celebrity trial is not exactly in the same league as an everyday misdemeanor case. He has a brand and he should (just like Dropbox or Path or whatever) be allowed to defend his brand.

2.

" I do hope that he fails in life, show me that this world is indeed a meritocracy after all, and that fortune can purchase fame and success for a while. As long as you pay dearly to sustain it. "

This is incredibly harsh. When you say that you "want" him to fail to show you that the world is "indeed a meritocracy", you are implicitly assuming that there is an inherent total ordering in which he comes at the bottom and that this is all that matters. This is a rather flawed assumption for two reasons 1) I am not even sure you can characterize an accurate objective total ordering for music 2) Even if you did, just like in the CS tech world where there are people who are incredibly smart but don't sell their products for a billion dollars, I would argue that musical ability is not really the only thing that matters when it comes to financial success. This is even more true for pop where success is determined by the number of people who enjoy the artist's music (and apparently from Bieber's financial success, it looks like there is a huge bunch of people who like his product and wish to buy it.)

"I wish I had Justin Bieber's Managers propping me up in life, I'd be a world sensation too if that were so."

Remember that he wasn't born with these magical "Managers". He also had to get his break in the wide world before he gets these magical "Managers".

[ktrgardiner]

I doubt he'll get anything more than a slap on the wrist. Not just because he is famous, but because this is his first offense, he has a clean record, and he's unlikely to be a repeat offender.

[goatforce5]

I don't watch entertainment news or follow gossip sites, so I was unaware that Bieber was in a spot of bother.

I googled for "justin bieber court case" intrigued by your comment about how there was a cover up from Big Media.

Top 3 results for that query?

LA Times MTV CNN

They're doing a really bad job of covering it up.