You may have seen something on the web today about the Associated Press preparing an obituary for Britney Spears. This 'story' was broken exclusively by Us magazine.
The surprise here is not that the AP is readying a Britney obit, but that the obit hasn't already been in the can for a few years. The AP and most other news organizations have obits ready for every public figure they can think of, ready to go with only a hard lede paragraph or two. That way, if a celebrity dies at an odd hour (Princess Diana, for example, died late on a Sunday evening, US time) when only a skeleton staff is on duty, the news agency can still quickly move a detailed report to its customers, readers or viewers.
So don't read too much into this. It's not an indication that someone at AP has inside information.
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