Jolie Flustered by FOX Flurry

16. Fox new shut up and I hope TMZ stop brings this subject here.

Posted at 3:36PM on Jun 18th 2007 by belle

17. Miss Jolie is no different from any other democrat out there. They are so afraid of anyone who might ask them real questions regarding their actions or their intentions, they choose to ignore them completely. Look at the Democratic presidential candidates. They avoid Fox news like the plague. How could they lead the country if their afraid to answer tough questions. Angelina is no different. It's pretty pathetic when the only journalist you will speak to is "Larry King".

Posted at 3:25PM on Jun 18th 2007 by Jiggy

18. Angie is a wonderful woman Fox new needs some hit.

Posted at 3:38PM on Jun 18th 2007 by didi

19. Too funny. FOX News trying to pass itself off as journalists and reporters is a joke in itself.

Posted at 3:28PM on Jun 18th 2007 by SinCity

20. FOX NEW SHUT UP.

Posted at 3:41PM on Jun 18th 2007 by FOREVER

21. we are all sick of Jolie.....hope Bill goes after her. She can be nice when she wants to and is a bitch most of the time.

Posted at 3:47PM on Jun 18th 2007 by go away Jolie

22. Harvey Levine, stop whoring this story. You have got nothing on Angelina Jolie. You are despicable excuse for a human being, and some of your posters here are beyond disgusting. To think you are being bankrolled by AOL/Timewarner.

This is what real reporters are saying, not gossip hacks like you and Friedman who is trying to stretch his 15 seconds of fame at the back of Ms Jolie.

http://www.northstarwriters.com/jv009.htm

June 18, 2007

Fox News Hardly a Victim as Angelina Jolie Puts Limits on Premiere Press Coverage


Usually I find it irritating when celebrities complain about being in the public eye and try to sensor the questions put forth by their interviewers. Like it or not, being a celebrity goes hand-in-hand with leading a visible life. To enjoy the benefits of being rich and admired, you must deal with the downfalls, as do the rest of us regular folks at our less glamorous jobs.



But the recent hoopla over Angelina Jolie’s movie premiere press requirements – which included a pre-interview contract prohibiting members of press from asking about her personal life and an initial ban on Fox News attending the premiere - is a bit overblown and misses the point.



No one has been more vocal about Jolie’s indiscretions than the jilted Fox News, who called Jolie hypocritical for making a movie that discusses the importance of freedom of press and then setting into motion bans and requirements for the press at the movie’s premiere. The movie, A Mighty Heart, is based on the memoir of Marianne Pearl, a French-born journalist whose husband, Daniel Pearl, was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan while on assignment for the Wall Street Journal.



The movie premiere itself was held in conjunction with a fundraiser for Reporters Without Borders, an organization promoting freedom of press. I’ll admit, it sounds bad. Given the context of the premiere, Jolie probably should have thought twice before making such a move (or allowing her lawyers to make such a move as she now contends was the case). But looking past Jolie’s prima donna behavior, comparing Fox News to Daniel Pearl is even more ludicrous and egotistical.



Daniel Pearl was in Pakistan to cover issues regarding the War on Terror, and died at the hands of terrorists in the name of reporting the facts. Members of the press in Jolie’s case want to know what her husband and four children ate for breakfast. An article on the subject appearing on FoxNews.com sarcastically quips, “Reporters Without Borders, indeed,” as if Reporters Without Borders’ sole concern is whether or not the press can ask personal questions of celebrities. It is insulting to Daniel Pearl that the press would invoke his name and the circumstances of his tragic death in conjunction with something so inconsequential, and arrogant of Fox News to align their situation with his, especially considering that they were able to attend after all.



According to the contract put forth by Jolie’s lawyers, questions directed at the actress should be about the movie, and really, they should be anyway. Perhaps Jolie and her “people” just wanted to make sure that the premiere was handled in the media with the same seriousness with which the film itself handles real issues regarding journalism and personal loss. Surely if every question directed at her at the premiere somehow involved her personal life, it would appear that Angelina was stealing the spotlight from the issues presented by the movie and by Reporters Without Borders. And if she were to have told every reporter on the red carpet who asked about her personal life that she wasn’t going to answer such questions, she would still look self-important.



It’s not as if Angelina is shy all the time when it comes to talking about her life outside of her movies and humanitarian work. She recently did an interview with Marie Claire where she spoke lovingly and openly about her family. In that venue, a women’s magazine, such a discussion was relevant. At a movie premiere, which is supposed to be about the movie, not so much. Besides, how many times do we have to hear her say that Brad Pitt is a great dad and that she wants to adopt more kids?



Maybe reporters need to reconsider what is important. Sure, one can report about Paris Hilton’s stint in jail or Lindsay Lohan’s stint in rehab and still report about foreign affairs. It is when reporting of the former outweighs the latter, and even worse, when reporting on celebrity gossip becomes, in the eyes of the media, as important to free speech as reporting on the War on Terror, that we must acknowledge that something is not quite right with the state of American journalism.

Posted at 3:58PM on Jun 18th 2007 by Mary

23. If I were famous I wouldn't give a crap what Faux News thought of me, and I would tell them were to go. They are not a news station, they are a joke.

Posted at 4:00PM on Jun 18th 2007 by bring it

24. She blamed the whole thing on her lawyer, and he took the blame for it, so Angie wouldn't look as bad, Im sure he got a big bonus for taking the fall.

Posted at 4:36PM on Jun 18th 2007 by shesthepitts

25. See who is acting like a PRIMA DONNA now. Roger Friedman has stretched this non story for almost a week because he knows without the name of Jolie, nobody cares about his site, and of course, TMZ and Harvey Levine are helping him with his tantrums.

I regret that I am giving your site a hit, because this place is a cesspool of hate for miserable, jealous people who take out their frustration on the rich and the famous, like that will ease their misery.

Posted at 4:13PM on Jun 18th 2007 by Angel

26. If Angelina was really sincere, she would go on Fox news and apologize. If she would do that, they would leave her alone.

#16 Pattie - You are so right! I e-mailed a few of the major news programs and told them I'ld turn the channel anytime they ran a Paris Hilton story.As one person that doesn't mean much...but if more people would boycott celebrities that behave badly, it would mean a lot in numbers! They need us way more than we need them.

Posted at 4:14PM on Jun 18th 2007 by V

27. Obviously Jolie learn squat about freedom of the Press from the role she just played. Figures--she ain't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.

Posted at 4:36PM on Jun 18th 2007 by eddie

28. Poor Saint Angelina...burn in hell!

Posted at 4:36PM on Jun 18th 2007 by castra regina

29. What did she do again?!

Angie's reps did not want the FOCUS to be taken off of
this VERY important movie by allowing the"YELLOW PRESS"
(the tabloids) to ask her any TRIVIAL questions, as they do and
then falsify things and plain lie.

She worked hard on A Mighty Heart which is about her BEST
friend"s, pregnant then, losing her journalist husband in
such a brutal way.

THE MESSAGE OF THE MOVIE IS TOLERANCE.
It is about raising above the incredible pain and
SHOWING NO FEAR in front of TERROR.

E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y SHOULD SEE IT - instead of
all those cheap, IDIOTIC movies that some of you
run to see!

Angie has always been HONEST, like it or not..
This is why she is where she is: LARGER THAN
LIFE AND STILL DOWN-TO-EARTH (as her acting
partner in A Mighty Heart said and summarized it all
PERFECTLY).
All the best to you too.

Posted at 4:39PM on Jun 18th 2007 by A MIGHTY HEART, INDEED

30. I agree this couple is not one that anyone should look up to. Both of them are just not really like someone you would want to be around. Maybe they deserve each other. I just don't understand why they just don't open an orphanage instead of all this adoption action that is taking place. I heard her say she wanted seven to thirteen for whatever reason I didn't hear her say. There are lots of children without homes and it would be nice for all children to have a place of security. So that's why I wonder why they don't just open an orphanage and run it.

Posted at 4:49PM on Jun 18th 2007 by Bennie