reporter: lynn started singing at age six, formed a band at 13. and now the 25-year-old is rising to stardom on the rocket force of her own will. her family mortgaged their home and raised private funds to spur her career. lynn didn t wait for tv to discover her. she paid for two tv specials herself. when people hear you have a television special, they pay attention to you. and then we booked the tour out of that and the fan base started growing. reporter: 50,000 fans follow her on social media. she has a publishing deal and a summer tour schedule. i m really excited. if you weren t coming from within nashville, you couldn t break in country music. reporter: former sony executive al smith said she s an example of how social media has
a leftist. after i became a libertarian and abc aired my tv specials like are we scaring ourselves to death, yes was my answer and boys are girls are different which somehow is controversial. cnn invited me on. you gave moo he a hard time. you suggested it was hard to think business is evil. do you really believe that? is that into the a trifle over stated. are they that biased against business. isn t there an anti business bias? a maybe at times. i am sure you understand given your long experience, john i invited you on. i was the one who wanted to talk to john stossel. it was my job to push and prod and test your arguments. that s what i was doing. the title of the show is objectivity in journalism. does john stossel practice
time. but, yes, eventually you get tv specials, you get people with better technologies and you get all kinds of speculation of, you know, a beam came down and took it out into space and whatever happened on lost happened in real life. we re already getting those kinds of theories now. and the longer a plane like this is gone, the more and more outrageous the invitations are to speculate as to what happened. when science doesn t give you answers, you have to go outside of rash nallty to look for them. robert thompson is a popular culture expert at syracuse university, looking at this sort of obsession with this mystery. thanks so much for joining us. i wonder if, you know, airplane travel is something most of us use, it s hard for us to imagine most of this would simply disappear. the way this developed is unprecedented. there were kws, was it
were added to the cannon, how the grinch stole christmas. this sound sounded glad. reporter: and a charlie brown christmas, but now a slightly newer bach are starting to crowd in on the family favorites. does will ferrel s elf deserve a place on the dvr? probably not. but make no mistake the most heated debate about christmas movies centers around the film love actually. does love actually deserve to be considered a new christmas classic. chris orr says emp f s no. it starts with physical attraction and goes immediately to the happily ever half. the strength of a movie like that is to me it feels more personal. it feels like something i can see in my real life potentially,
movies, starting with it s a wonderful life. every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. and miracle on 34th street. in the 60s a couple tv specials were added, how the grinch stole christmas. and a charlie brown christmas. this doesn t seem to fit the modern spirit. but now a slightly newer batch of movies are starting to crowd in on the family favorites. does will ferrell s elf deserve a place on the dvr? probably not. but make no mistake, the most heated debate about christmas movies centers around the film love actually. does love actually deserve to be considered a new christmas classic? film critic chris orr says emphatically no. it s just a very strange conception of love that sort of starts with physical attraction and then goes immediately to the happily ever after.