Brad & Angelina - “A Mighty Heart” After Party

So what if the blogs bashes her dress. If she skimped on the dress because she wants to give the money to charity then God bless her!

tomorrow: test

I know that NYT lost some respect after that reporter wrote that article about Angelina. But that was an entertainment reporter. The NYT editoral staff will not write about this incident but it not something new. It has happen before. It’s just that Angelina is involved so the internet sites goes crazy. I’m at work listening to the radio and I have not heard one story on this matter. So stop making it out to be more than it is.

Second I know some of the remarks about Brad are coming from Jenfans but the truth is Brad could come out tomorrow and say he wanted this done and some in the media would still focus on Angelina.

528 EVEN PEREZ HATES ANGIE NOW TOO | 06/14/2007 at 12:48 pm
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Yeah, how dear Angie demand they stick to the subject matter at hand. Please, Perez and internet hack mad with Angie, she must go hide in exile right now.

536 To #530 | 06/14/2007 at 1:07 pm

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Well, if that is your take on it this is the same project that was involved in the India incident so how will him going to her rescue as you request in this matter give you a different point of view than the India matter? You already said he did it for himself won’t you say the same thing this time if he speak out? Admit that you just don’t want them together no matter what he does it will never be enough.

http://glosslip.com/2007/06/14/angelina-jolie-latest-victim-of-fox-news-hissy-fit-slanted-news-and-sour-grapes/

Glosslip Defends Angelina

Glosslip has a reputation for being a harsh critic of the Brangelina whitewash campaign ever since Angie seemed to swoop in and destroy Brad Pitt’s first marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston. Before Angelina Jolie became the patron saint of orphaned children, and in doing so, revamping her “wanton hussy manstealer” image, she was often the punchline for many a gossip joke: makes out with her brother, wears a vial of blood around her neck, ambiguous sexual orientation, homewrecker, has intercourse en route to red carpet events — you know — a real loose cannon as it were. But that’s ancient history. And today is a real first here at Glosslip, for today we who have never defended Angelina Jolie, are now taking a stand in her defense.

A report from Fox News is slamming the actress’ actions at her latest film premier for A Might Heart, a film based on the life, abduction and murder of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl as written by his widow Marianne Pearl.

Angelina is being accused of suppressing the media and making outrageous demands of any reporters or news agencies wishing to speak to her about anything related to her “personal relationships.” Those who wish to interview her must sign agreements based on her terms and any deviation from those agreements can lead to a lawsuits filed by Jolie. Here are some of the details from the FOX report:

Ironically, Wednesday night’s premiere of the excellent Michael Winterbottom-directed film was meant to support an organization called Reporters Without Borders. Jolie, however, did everything she could to clamp down on the press and control it.

Reporters from most major media outlets balked Wednesday when they were presented with an agreement drawn up by Jolie’s Hollywood lawyer Robert Offer. The contract closely dictated the terms of all interviews.

Reporters were asked to agree to “not ask Ms. Jolie any questions regarding her personal relationships. In the event Interviewer does ask Ms. Jolie any questions regarding her personal relationships, Ms. Jolie will have the right to immediately terminate the interview and leave.”

The agreement also required that “the interview may only be used to promote the Picture. In no event may Interviewer or Media Outlet be entitled to run all or any portion of the interview in connection with any other story. … The interview will not be used in a manner that is disparaging, demeaning, or derogatory to Ms. Jolie.”

If that wasn’t enough, Jolie also requires that if any of these things happen, “the tape of the interview will not be released to Interviewer.” Such a violation, the signatory thus agrees, would “cause Jolie irreparable harm” and make it possible for her to sue the interviewer and seek a restraining order.

Wow, that’s some pretty harsh and extreme measures for a person who is attempting to promote a film about journalists as heroes. But before you get all up in arms at Angie, let’s look over some important details about this story.

First of all, this is Fox News. Fox is the most conservative, “right wing and proud of it” major news agency out there. Where most media outlets attempt to project a “fair and balanced” reporting of current events, Fox basically admits that they do all their news with a slant, a right slant. In the last eight years since the Bush administration has been controlling this country, Fox has run rough-shod over any story that didn’t favor the Republicans. They are a shoot first, ask questions later. Really, when you boil it down, Fox is the reason why our media has gone from merely reporting the news, to actually editorializing it. All other agencies have had to follow suit. If you ask me, this is what Dan Rather meant when he was talking about “dumbing down” and “tarting up” the news.

Back on topic, the real reason Fox is slamming Jolie is because she outright BANNED their asses from this premier and well, let’s face it, instead of facing adversity with dignity and some self-respect, Fox News just did what Fox News does best, slings mud and hurl invectives. Please read the quotes from the same article below, but now with the benefit of knowing the intentions of this Fox writer :

So much for reporters without borders.

That’s not all: Jolie told Paramount Pictures publicists to ban FOX News Channel and all FOX News affiliates from covering the “Mighty Heart” premiere on the red carpet. It was only with the intervention of mortified Paramount staff that an FNC camera crew was allowed to be present.

Apparently, no one told Jolie of the highly positive review FOX News had given “A Mighty Heart” from Cannes.

Jolie is famous by now for directing press and selling rights to her photos. She has long been in business with People magazine, orchestrating photo shoots of her children. The money, she says, goes to charity.

This column reported a year ago, on June 8, 2006, about how Jolie and Pitt were responsible for the expulsion of journalists in Namibia where the couple went to have their child, Shiloh. Their bodyguards regularly got into fights with local photographers hoping to make some money from the couple’s colonial residency in their country.

After Shiloh was born, Jolie and Pitt gave a news conference, but limited it only to Namibian journalists. No reporters from neighboring countries were allowed.

The couple sat on the dais with Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s first president, aka dictator, who ruled for 15 years.

In 2002, Nujoma abruptly appointed himself minister of information and broadcasting. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Nujoma has routinely attacked reporters from his country calling them “unpatriotic” and “the enemy.”

During the time Pitt and Jolie were in the country, a former photographer for the Namibian, the daily newspaper, was arrested twice for trying to get a picture of the couple.

South African John Liebenberg was arrested on municipal property during the Jolie-Pitt stay and pronounced guilty of trespassing. His passport and camera equipment were confiscated as well.

Treatment of the press is so bad in Namibia, in fact, that an organization called the National Society for Human Rights was formed several years ago to protect reporters’ rights.

The NSHR, which is usually busy with more important matters, issued a statement on April 24 strongly condemning the deportation of foreign journalists from Namibia who wanted to cover the Pitt-Jolie visit.

“As the principal human rights monitoring and advocacy organization in this country, we strongly repudiate this unprecedented and blatant violation of the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and expression, which includes freedom of the press and other media,” the statement read.

It’s a little unclear how Mariane Pearl, whom Jolie plays in “A Mighty Heart,” feels about her portrayer’s position on freedom of press for some, but not all. On Wednesday, I spoke to Jeff Julliard, the editorial director of Reporters Without Borders in Paris.

“Paparazzi should be allowed to do their job,” he said, adding that he condemned Jolie’s banning of FOX News and actions taken on her behalf in Namibia.

Note the slanted bent in this story. It’s all about how Fox was maligned, even though they said “nice things” about the film. Woe is Fox News, banned from a movie premier. We had our wittle feelings hurt. Whatevs. This is celebrity news, the stuff of make believe. This isn’t hard hitting news, you weren’t out to make your journalism professor proud, you were out to make a quick buck and had the door slammed in your face.

Anyone with a modicum of cultural awareness would have noticed that Angelina Jolie has done numerous interviews in recent months were she has spoken EXTENSIVELY about her personal life and her relationship with Brad Pitt. Just last month in Cannes, at the world premier A Mighty Heart, Jolie was slammed for turning the interviews into stories about her and her life rather than the film. Now, merely a month later she is getting beaten up for insisting the press focus on the film rather than her bedroom antics or adoptive practices.

Cripes, she can’t win. I feel very weird defending Angelina Jolie. I am not sure how I feel about her at this point. I am not even sure of my political views at this stage in game. But I know slanted journalism when I read it, and that sh*t ain’t cool.

If your motto is “We Report, You Decide” like Fox News boasts, then by all means, let me decide. Otherwise it’s not the news, it’s your opinion.

And if I wanted an opinion about a news story I’d read a blog, not some jackholes pretending to be a “legitimate news outlet.”

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Cliniqua ~~ as a New Yorker i’m feeling
you..sad but true, “NYC were like vultures
lying in wait for her” you called it, i
called it, if it was a lottery ticket we
would both be rich!.. tough town..

Cliniqua thanks for posting. Although I don’t like most of what she wrote I do agree this is a Fox tantrum. No other legit media is whining.

Cliniqua, there is a different thread for the topic.

Angelina needs to gain 10-20lbs. The photo where she is leaning over, that sooooo unattractive.

I like her dress, but stick and bones yikes.

#187 hideous
If your mother had wiped your ass better when you were a baby, maybe you wouldn’t have grown up to be an ass hole and a sour puss. Grow up and stop being so hateful.

Lainey is right. She always agrees with me, lol, except when she calls total losers minivan majority instead of DUMBASS MAJORITY.
We know this is not who Angelina has been. She doesn’t even have a publicist. BP has a huge pr-machine, a publicist AND a manager. That alone makes you wonder.

What else makes you wonder is why he’s never tried to say the truth about *that* divorce, esp when Angelina gets all that bashing.
The lucky girl wasn’t even in that merger and, I guess, Pitt was an adult. SOME still need hear it said!
The truth would put a diabolical couple of
Maniston and Huvane out of our sight for ever!
Imagine!
A WIN-WIN.

Submitted by cadebra1961 on June 14, 2007 - 4:56pm.
Wow, I feel the love in here, AND HOW!! Skankalina is a fake, fugly, pretentious, man-stealing douche, plain and simple. She got that big, ugly, bobble-head thing going on, and her nasty-ass, dry, chapped lips look like they could use a pound of chapstick everyday!! And she sucks as an actress, no OSCAR for her again! Poor Brad - he should go back to Jen, he’s looking awfully haggard these days. Bet he’s sorry he got mixed up with these freaky ho!!

574 ever | 06/14/2007 at 8:59 pm

I guess what that makes you the moral police of us all. I wonder if you “ever” did anything in you life that you were able to learn from and behave differently because of your experience.

Don’t be too quick to judge..you will also be judged one day. Is your past so perfect?

Please give it rest you can’t dictate to us on morality since we don’t where you’ve been.