OlderPeople Magazine: NY Times is Bogus
Larry Hackett, managing editor for People magazine, just sent this email to staffers to address the recent NYTimes piece titled “Angelina Jolie’s Carefully Orchestrated Image”:
“I don’t normally address press stories about how we do our business here at People. But today’s New York Times pg. 1 story about Angelina Jolie requires a response. In the lede, the story strongly suggests that People, while negotiating for the twins pictures, had explicit conversations about our “editorial plan” and made ‘a promise’ that coverage would be positive.
“These sorts of stories have appeared in media gossip columns before. I have ignored them in the past as the unfortunate fallout of competition and sour grapes. But today’s story, in a much different venue, takes these rumors to a new level, so let me be absolutely clear: The suggestion that we have ever made any promise of positive coverage, or have submitted an editorial plan, is completely false. That I or anyone else would promise, on paper or verbally, to purposely slant coverage as condition for acquiring pictures, is insulting to all of us.
“Here’s what is true: Celebrities-and senators and business executives and athletes-are always trying to bend stories their way. We deal with that pressure every single day and engage in many conversations regarding all elements of coverage. Angelina Jolie is very candid about wanting attention for her charitable efforts, and we have covered many of them because we believe they are interesting stories. But in doing so, we have never relinquished editorial control. There have been occasions when her goals and our needs could not be reconciled, and we have walked away, as we have with countless other story subjects.
“In our coverage of both celebrities and everyday people, People certainly often celebrates their accomplishments and milestones. To say that our coverage of Angelina Jolie has not been admiring would be disingenuous. But the suggestion in today’s Times that this ‘positive’ coverage is codified and promised is totally bogus, and needs to be rejected.”
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hahaha!!!
SHE’S SO PRETTY “! :D
Who cares either way.
Oh… *waits for gazillion posts claiming otherwise*
I’m glad People decided to answer the NYT.
who gives a crap?
yeah because i would totally believe people magazine of the NY times
Ny Times has been sinking for a while now.
They gave the 14 mil$ to CHARITY. duh.
Angie has been a UNCHR ambassador for 8 yrs.
NY Times is desperado & liars.
She should of given the 16 million dollars to the Africian relief and built
them some home to go back to instead she sits in a filthy tent in her
black hooded wrap and talks about how they need help… What charity
the Jolie-Pitt foundation aka for the kids.. and their lavish lifestyle?
Duh tell us what charity is was.. so what if she was an ambassador
for the UNCHR.. she has done squat for them..Just her videos…
put her money to good use…
Two words:
Judith. Miller. NYT
A reporter most singlehandedly responsible for spreading the neo-con LIES in the Iraq War, killing 1.6 milloon, wounding half million, and killing 5000 U.S. military.
This is proven FACT.
Between her, and Jason Blair – this paper has been sh*t for a looooong time.
Finally ! I always knew she used her status to bring awarness to her charities, but I never believed she used it to put herself in a “positive” light. She can careless about what people think about her,she is too busy with her family and just living life.
nothing new, the media keeping repeating the samething and it is getting boring, let her live her life.
The NY Times need to get a grip! Do they just need to pick on somebody? Why don’t they write about more relevant things and news worthy topics? The fact that Ms. Jolie have done more good that most if not all hollywood stars is worth mentioning. I am tired of the media almost printing lies and bad news. The way the economy and the world is heading to these days, bad publicity and dire news only fans the fire and achieves nothing but build more hostility, anger, mistrust and sadness among humankind.
..and NO, this is still NOT a new thread. Keep posting in Brad/Oprah.
That is all.
Angelina is a talented Actress, devoted Mom and Humanitarian. The media is obsessed with her and is making her an iconic legend of our generation. Whether you like her or not, the main thing is that people(mainly hens) cannot ignore her. She has been lied on, smeared on and her past brought up in many articles. Yet AJ continues to live her life and love her family. She seems to have it all and this bothers many. I admire her intelligence, talent, strength and conviction to her causes. All the tabloid BS, PR manufactured triangle and ranting from crazed nutjobs are just a minor inconvenience in reading about a woman who walks the talk. Keep on Keeping on Angelina Jolie. It is always good to leave the haters in the dust.
HAAAAAA……HA! (As bart simpson would say).
Kudos to PEOPLE for putting this hack in his place and in doing so, throw light on the trashloid-little secret that the NYT harbors within its ‘hallowed’ pages.
Journallism is no longer about strict lines of demarcation between ‘news’ and the opinions and commentary of the so-called writers who are no longer content just to report the facts. Everybody wants their 15 minutes. Everybody wants to give his or her spin on things and in the process, foul up the facts, as this so-called ‘writer’ of the piss poor hatchet job on Angie tried to do. (A page one article???!! i know media is feeling the economic downturn pretty hard but……man! i guess its worse than i thought LOL.
Anyhoo……seems to me the next step is to point the spotlight on this so-called ‘writer’. When writers insert themselves and their biases so blatantly into stories, its time to find out who they are, who ‘pays’ them and what their real agenda is!!!!
NYTimes has a lot of contributing writers. This one, Brooks Barns, again, probably is one of the women whose partner left her, or had an experience of a failed relationship which she never accounted herself for. Angelina’s critics are often themselves very insecure women who are extremely threatened by Angelina’s self-assured, honest life style. They can’t take it.
Everyone wants a piece of Angie.
I was waiting for this site to make a post in her defense…
I’m just kidding Angelina Jolie is the MOST ADMIRED PHILANTHROPIST ON THE PLANET, SECOND sandwiched between Bono & Oprah.
I mean, here we are arguing about how and in which way she can donate her millions to the poor, and actually discussing what she’s wearing when she’s sitting in war-torn dangerous area bringing attention to suffering refugees…I was just kidding talking about her black outerwear – those are clothes she had to wear to respect customs.
I mean, you guys know I’m kidding right??
Why would I be so critical of a woman doing so much for others?
It’s not like she’s Jennifer Aniston getting mani-pedis, and living with her colorist and hair stylist, or getting brazillians for her weekly beach shots. Now THAT is something to be critical of. She could spend her 100 million on someone other than her fake asss’d self, but she doesn’t – she chases obnoxious boytoys around the world and snaps photos offstage. Wow, what a role model. If the NYT says Angelina is ‘scary smart,’ she must ‘horrifingly DUMB.’ Hahaha.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7739707.stm
Emotional Jolie takes no prisoners
By Liam Allen
Entertainment reporter, BBC News
Angelina Jolie in Changeling – clip courtesy of Universal Pictures.
The excitement in the room is palpable.
The buzz, which manifests itself as lively chatter, is not one usually associated with experienced and sometimes cynical journalists.
And with the star of the show apparently running late, all eyes turn to the door each time it opens – only to be disappointed by the sight of late colleagues rather than a late Angelina Jolie.
The 33-year-old is in London to promote new film Changeling – the harrowing true story of Christine Collins whose son, Walter, went missing in Los Angeles in 1928.
When the press conference – at the swanky Claridge’s hotel – eventually begins, Jolie explains that “the hardest thing” about playing Collins was that the character is relatively passive.
As a mum, it was horrible and I had my kids with me as much as possible at work and, after doing the day at work, I would just run home and I just wanted to be silly
Angelina Jolie on Changeling
Jolie’s tears for her late mother
“I couldn’t relate to it,” says Jolie, suggesting her reputation as a tough cookie is not too wide of the mark.
But within seconds, Jolie – looking stunning in a plain dark olive green jumper – is fighting back tears.
And the journalists have their story.
She pauses to compose herself as she explains how she based her performance on her “really, really sweet” actress mother, Marcheline Bertrand – who died last year.
It is this softer, emotional side of Jolie that pervades the rest of the press conference as she talks affectionately about her family.
‘Very goofy’
Jolie says Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood, was “a very hard film for all of us to make”.
Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins
Jolie is being tipped for a best actress Oscar for Changeling
The movie, which is being tipped for best picture and best actress Oscars, tells the story of Collins’s fight for the truth after police officers return a different child to her, claiming it is her son.
When she tries to force them to admit they have the wrong boy and to resume the search, she is thrown into a psychiatric ward.
“As a mum, it was horrible and I had my kids with me as much as possible at work and, after doing the day at work, I would just run home and I just wanted to be silly.
“It was so emotional that I found myself just being very, very goofy.”
She says her four-month old twins, Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon, are “upstairs – hopefully sleeping”.
‘Wrapping presents’
Asked if she and the other half of Hollywood’s most famous couple, Brad Pitt, plan to expand their family – which already numbers six children – Jolie replies: “Sure you can.”
Jolie and Pitt with children Zahara and Maddox
Jolie says she and Pitt are looking forward to “doing the stockings”
A big family Christmas is planned in the “Brangelina” household, she says.
“We’re usually exhausted by Christmas Eve.
“We love it – it’s that fun of sitting up in the middle of the night and wrapping the presents together and doing the stockings and all that kind of stuff.
“It’s kind of the best thing about being a mom and dad.”
Such is the graceful emotion exuded by Jolie that, when a journalist asks how she is feeling in herself after the recent “extremes” of losing her mother and giving birth to twins, she actually thanks him for asking.
But anyone who thinks she has lost her edge should think again.
Jolie with her best actress Oscar in 2000
Jolie won the best supporting actress Oscar for Girl, Interrupted in 2000
The same press man’s follow-up question is met with an icy stare.
“There was a lot of focus on how thin you looked during the shooting of the film and in the film. I just wondered if you’re healthier now?” he asks.
“I think that’s an odd question,” she replies simply.
As the press conference goes on, it can only be a matter of time before someone asks Jolie the killer question – how does she respond to Jennifer Aniston’s claims that she romanced Pitt while he was still married to the Friends actress?
Whoever asks it may well get the cold shoulder from an actress who clearly takes no prisoners.
But the chance of taking the prize of a headline-grabbing retort back to editors is surely too good to miss. Isn’t it?
No-one dares ask.
Glad that this was finally said. The NY Times is struggling to keep their paper afloat. They have create drama to get readership. Sad but so true. Brooks Barnes is an idiot but the worst culprits are the editors that let her piece of garbage article run on the first page.
Brooks Barnes is a guy who looks frighteningly like Clay Aiken, only a LOT less macho. lmao
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/gbye-laura-holson-hello-brooks-barnes-meet-nyts-new-movie-biz-reporter/
well if the “good coverage” exsist .. shouldnt it be part of the deal that pepople HAS TO response to such stories Just saying
Thank you Jared.
God Bless the Jolie-Pitt’s always and forever .
How dare Angelina try to bring the focus to her charity? Seriously, the NYT is upset because she cares about her image as if that is different from any other celeb. She has been uncharacteristically honest in her interviews and still some in the media try to negate every good thing that she has done. The fact that article talked about her humanitarian efforts as a way to smooth over her relationship with Brad is beyond ridiculous because she was involved in those causes before meeting Brad. So, one has to wonder if the author had something to gain by his misleading article and it would be interesting to know who his sources are and WHO they are connected to…
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