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Angelina's Masterful Media Manipulation
Posted on Fri Nov 21, 2008 02:30 PM PDT
Just how much time does Angelina spend thinking about her image? Quite a bit, apparently.
In a fascinating article in today's New York Times, writer Brooks Barns reports that when Angelina and Brad negotiated $14 million for the first pictures of their newborn twins they also had strict editorial demands the buyer, People Magazine, was forced to follow. Those restrictions included highlighting the couple's charity work, and never referring to them as "Brangelina."
- According to the deal offered by Ms. Jolie, the winning magazine was obliged to offer coverage that would not reflect negatively on her or her family, according to two people with knowledge of the bidding who were granted anonymity because the talks were confidential. The deal also asked for an “editorial plan” providing a road map of the layout, these people say.
This was not the first time Angelina had cut a deal to ensure she was portrayed in a positive light. In 2006, Barns reports Jolie used her philanthropic advisor, Trevor Neilson, to solicit bids for pictures of her adopted son, Maddox, in Cambodia. Jolie insisted coverage of her charity work was part of the deal.
The article also shows how Jolie has used the media to shift the focus away from negative stories about her:
- When she became romantically involved with Mr. Pitt, for instance, she faced a public relations crisis — being portrayed in the tabloid press as a predator who stole Mr. Pitt from his wife, Jennifer Aniston.
This time, it was Ms. Jolie’s charity work that helped turn the story. Long interested in international humanitarian work, Ms. Jolie appeared in Pakistan, where she visited camps housing Afghan refugees, and even met with President Pervez Musharraf. Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt made a subsequent trip to Kashmir to bring attention to earthquake victims.
“Presto, they come out looking like serious people who have transformed a silly press obsession into a sincere attempt to help the needy,” said Michael Levine, a celebrity publicist and author.
Her efforts, Barns reports, seem to be working, he reports that marketing experts rate Angelina as one of Hollywood's "most likable" stars.
Do you think Angelina has manipulated the media to portray her in a positive light?
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Comments
SO GIVE HER THE DAMN NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AND BE DONE WITH IT !!!!!!!
You can tell by her candid shots she is posing. Particularly when at the park with her kids - there is no way you act that way - I spend half my time yelling at them and sitting on the park bench! btw I don't care what anyone else thinks of my comment because it true. Angie's smiling in control but when she goes home she is probably losing control
She's a whore in every sense of the word.
This is not surprising. Everything the woman does, reflects her need for attention. She may truly love those little kids, but.., she also uses them to draw attention, they're just another part of her well performed movie, she's laying out. I personally think, she's sick in the head, and Pitts right behind her.
You can take my picture but be sure to highlight all the chairity work I do.
Oh Please,she flat out lies every chance she gets. speaking of chairty work what happend to the chAIity that was suppose to be for Paxxs orhange, oh yahh it closed due to lack of funds.
once she got the kid she stiffed the other needy kids, Bitch!
I think now that she has been labled UNCOOL, no amonut of PR can repair that.
In the interview othier not suppose to ask whay arent your kids in school and why do you drag them around from place to place.
She is a skank. Pack up your shit and move to africa. Cause nobody in the us can stand to look at your ugly face anymore. Media Whore just like Paris, Britney and Lindsey. HATE THEM ALL AND WISH THEY WOULD GO AWAY FOREVER.
This is the same skank who had sex with nasty ass billy bob on the way to a award show and told the whole world they had sex in the back of the car. Not to mention how she seems to love sucking face with her brother. This Bitch justs makes me want to loose my lunch.
Angie's number one in the whore contest. Britney's number two.
Booo, i think she know how to control her image just like tom cruise would. they are both are control freak. and using their children to emotionally connect to brad pit so he will not switch to another home-wreaker. smart thing to do. but it's just so UNCOOL. she has been lucky with movie she picked, and intentionally create a sexy big lips image.
poor children. they will never ever have a chance to be normal. other celebrity children are not used to the extent brangelina use theirs. thank God.
hate her
I think they have their information is incorrect about"Her efforts, Barns reports, seem to be working, he reports that marketing experts rate Angelina as one of Hollywood's "most likable" stars. There is small percentage of people out there that like her compared to any other celebrity" Look all I can say is if you are going to help others and it comes from the heart.... You are not going to show your doings....
Oh come on, just how stupid does one need to be to not know about this?! She admitted to being a Heroin addict, kept Billy Bobs blood around her neck in a vial, has had gay lovers and has been a nutt case for years and all of a sudden we were supposed to believe she is Saint Angelina? Give me a break. I have been saying for MONTHS that she is a fake, phoney and douche bag who is working overtime on her PR to turn her from a whore into a housewife. Now it is confirmed, she IS a douche bag.
publicity about charity is just shameful, further more using her children to amplify the news. she is a manipulative witch.
UNCOOL
ugh this lady makes me sick. She is a disgusting attention whore with serious mental problems. Thats all.
She's disgusting!!!!
X17 be careful. don't try and get all high and mighty or take a holier than thou attitude.
this agency has made so many deals with celebrities for photo ops. too many to list.
we all know the deal you had with Britney and Sam Lufti a year ago.
your people worked with them and you had exclusive access to information and the best pictures.
in fact I would say lots of celebrities do this type of wheeling and dealing with agencies. A-List and D-List.
can't wait to see who is exposed next.
Not a wonder why John Voight (her father) said she was a mental case and tried to stop Maddox's adoption. She is unstable and it is finally public knowledge what a manipulative witch she is. She is a husband stealing, drug addict who buys children to fix public opinion of her. Shameful on all levels. It is time for her to go away.
I can't stand this woman. She is as phony as they come.She is not looking good either. Brad is now getting what he
deserves,being the cheater he is.Their Karma is,they are both losing their looks bigtime.
VERY UNCOOL
i wonder how her PR will handle this news >.< manipulative witch! hate her big time.
what are they doing for turkey day ? adopting another kid. angie is getting old and losing her looks.
she looks eviel
I think this information is very accurate. Angelina has been involved in charity work since 2001 and donated millions of dollars and yet NOTHING has made a difference, all of that money she donates goes to through the corrupt government first and doesn't even make it to the people who NEED it, even with her own ridiculous charity with Brad. I am asking you "devoted" fans to really think with an open mind rather than to blindly follow whatever crap she throws at you asking YOU to donate, to make a difference, because she is obviously hasn't got a clue in her head as to what she is doing. I am no way saying this in a hateful way, I am just asking you readers to think about it.
charity means tax cut. adoption also means tax cut.
Don't care!
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that's not masterful that's normal.
she's a mother of many of course she wants good angles.
as for brangelina that's a revolting hangover from journalists from another marraige.
try at least to come up with something else.
i'm sure with 6 kids brad hasn't time to think of his past or would want to.
i plan on my honeymoon to sit infront of angelina with fags brimming over ashtray empty whiskey bottles strewn & mouth the word backpacking.
memories eh memories?
6 kids i can't believe she even had time to even do an interview.
well done with the boarding school.
i'd like to do something like that.
backpacking angie backpacking.
you can ruin them both with that one word.
I know Angie's fans will all defend this practice saying all stars use the media to promote themselves, including Jennifer Aniston. True, but how many exploit refugees and orphans to do damage control when they get involved with a married man? Giving an interview to a magazine to promote a film is one thing. Exploiting desperate people in need of food/shelter and using your own children as leverage to make sure you only get positive news coverage is one of the most awful celebrity stories I have ever heard. Angelina Jolie is one of the most shameful, soulless people to ever work in Hollywood. And that's saying a lot.
Charity means doing something nice for someone and not expecting anything in return. Can anyone actually say Angelina hasn't gotten anything in return for her charity work? Global fame, millions of dollars, glowing news coverage, getting out of that sticky little adultery situation. Ms. Jolie's fans must be really damaged if they think exploiting helpless people for personal gain is even considered an act of charity.
SHE'S A FAKE THROUGH AND THROUGH!
Well, I am under no contractual demands to fawn and swoon, so dare I say SLUT!
she looks OLD! Jen astion looks young and sexy and angie looks like an old whore!
Brad looks brow beatn and a huge whimp!
Wow Slutgelina uses the media big suprise
The lies the Joile pitts tell!
angie is putting it out there that she is pregant agin just to get at jen.
I realy do think once brad is done
being draged all ovwer the Globe and
pretending with angie he well go right back to jen. surpries Jen might not want him after he hasbeen with that skank. Plus Brad isnt sexy any more lost his looks and personailty a couple of years ago. who would have thought Brad pitt would go grey so soon and fall apart like he has and his career is in the crapper. Joile pitts a bunch of self serving pigs. well all be laughing when they get thier s taken away cuz they suck as parents and neglect the kids expesaily the adopted ones.
Angelina is not only an award winning, stunningly beautiful actress and a great mom who spends time with her children, but also she is a solid humanitarian that not only gives millions to charities, but informs closed minded people like you idiots how badly this world and it's people need the kind of help she gives.
Thank god for Angelina.
Yes she is beautiful and talented.
She is also very smart as well. Most celebs have publicity hounds.
Angelina has everything.
Suck on that Chinnifer Maniston!
Indeed...Jolie is very likable- only ignorant idiots would disagree. She is a hands on mother. She is a tireless humanitarian. She is a superb actress. She doesn't care what 9 months of pregnancy will do to her celebrity body. She is real. No wonder Pitt chose her to be his mate for life. He is one smart man.
The last 3 post are odviously a paid blogger to say nice things about angie. Its all so canned. a great humainatirean a hands on mother ha ha
you throw in thier Angelina has everything! How lame. Her Kids dont even have a place to call home.They arent gertting an education have no rules or bed times eat junk food and all angie worries about is that jen has a better body than she does and Brad is still in love with jen. surberb actress give me break! not worried what 9 months of preganycy well do to her body so funny its like your saying all the oppeiste things, just as angie told you to tyep cuz she is too dumb to type for herself. No wonder Brad refuses to marry her! he chose jen as a life mate
angie stuck her nose in it.who cares what she does for humitine work she sucks as a mom doesnt spend time with her kids and drags them all over the globe. No amunt of fake blogging well change opion sorry better luck nexted time.
Brad is one smart man beacus he knows better than to get married to angie itwell only end in divvoce. nop matter how many kids she spits out it wont be eonough for brad to keep it in his pants. angie has lost her looks and charm now its all about Brad useing her womb to fill up the missing void of Jen.
Brad wont play nanny forever he is going to get so sick of angie and Bolt!
Thanks for the 10 kids Bitch!
Brad well take her to court and win costody of the kids and him and jen can raise them proper. The kind of help she gives ha ha she only wants to help herself to some PR to take attion away from how crazy she is.Paging Jaye pitt.
save your gradkids form this insane peace of shit named angie joie!
One day Brad well get on his bike and never return to that house of horrors called the Joile Pittts.
all thier kids are illlagimente.
Thier parents arent married so that makes them all Bastards!
I cant imjaine that these qulaites would be admired by the public.
No moral standards just fake Hollywood
jerk offs wanting to have something real that money cant by but its out of controll and those kids suffer .
see more info on Shopping and Info I saw more about them there
I heard they call the Paps whenever they go to the park with them in Malibu so they look like they are good parents
Everything they do is to look good. I
wonder if People will print a come back
in their magazine. So far they have put
one in Just Jared and everybody knows
that is for the Angelina loonies. They
have played the public ever since they
started shacking up on the set of Mr.
and Mrs. Smith. Good for the New York
Times. About time somebody saw through
it. Uncool is a good word for them but
I think maybe dishonest fits a little
better. Think of all the poor people
that have come up with money for magazines, pictures, donations so they
can look wonderful and live in a mansion. You gotta admitt they do deserve each other. I'd be willing to
bet that they won't sue because it just
might bring up a lot of things that we
don't know about. Whatever happened to
honest, decent people?
Jen don't want him anymore.
what a coincidence? while jen maniston is the cover of the new york magazine they ran a negative story about angelina. this is defineitely jen and stephen huvane's work. its known that jen and her publicist are the ones spreading all the ugly rumors about brad and angelina. get over it jen. move on already.
yes yes this is true!! jen is the cover of today's NY Times Magazine which is running the angelina story on page 1. jen agreed to be on the cover providing they run a negative angelina story. so why is brad not mentioned at all/ only angelina. brad was in the pictures too. when jen was at oprah she was all praise about brad. fake!!! deep inside she still loves him thats why shes only attacking angelina
jen move on already. we all know you're the one spreading lies and rumors to these tabloids about brad and angie. youre actually posting some of these post we all know that!!!!
Its so sad that in order to make Angie look good, her fans have to tear down Jen. It says a lot about Angie and the type of people that support her.
I used to be an Angie fan. But that was a million interviews press conferencesand photo-ops ago. Now, I see her for what she is and I feel bad about having liked her in the first place. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I can't believe people are still talking about this ridiculous woman. Why? She's the Paris Hilton of 2008. PR Stunt, PR Stunt, PR stunt. Rinse and repeat.
I think this says a lot about women in the 21st century. Society won't accept you until you have children. The more children you, the more people accept you. . Women are not allowed to do as they please. Not unless they're super attractive and have lots of children. I think most of the hate directed at Jennifer Aniston, hate that comes from a lot of other women by the way. I think people hate her because she give her "price charming" what he wanted. She didn't turn into a baby factory for him. How dare she!!! So we'll call her awful and ugly and every other nasty thing we can. It's kind of ironic that Angie is the one who is considered unconventional. Isn't it Jen who went against social norms? We still have a long way to go before we have true equality. A looooong, loooong way.
Yes, ANGELINA JOLIE IS A MANIPULATIVE...
If you look carefully at Angelina Jolie's video... The last one where she does the promotion of the Changeling and she uses her mother died...
you can note, Angelina Jolie prepares to cry before she talks about her mother ...
She answers to the journalist‘s questions but in fact she is in introspection… she is looking for one emotion... She has small deep breaths, she blinks eyes, she joins eyebrows…
When Angelina Jolie puts her lock of hair behind his ear, she finds her emotion and she is ready to integrate his mother in the speech ...
Angelina Jolie mixes one emotion, some words « Marceline », « Marsmallow », the cameras are lit... SHOW MUST GO ONE…
I don't see anything wrong with that.
She's a big enough star and she doesn't need any exposure sismply for the sake of exposure.
Go for it Angie!
Admire your class and charity work.
They are just stating the obvious. Everybody knows what a manipulative bitch Angie is. People are finally seeing you for what you really are! You're fooling nobody!
COMPLETELY UNCOOL
Angie's a lying manipulative bitch. Yeah? Tell me something I don't know.
Angie is back on the speed pills to lose wieght,, so look out. The kids and Brad better run and Hide from her cuz she is bitch on the lose. More controlling and crazyer than ever.
Jen is looking all sexy and Joile is looking like well,, a mom of 6 kids.
angie we never get ober her jealously to jen. angie wel never be Brads wife.
It just may be interesting to see what
plays out. She and Brad look so awful
they need to start being even more on
the ball about manipulating people. Just getting more kids isn't going to
do it and getting peed and poop on is
definitily getting old. Her sexy is gone
so she needs to really come up with a
winner.
She manipulated Pitt too making him think he likes all those kids while trapping him in her web. Now he can't leave. She knows he is her only claim to fame. She wore no pantieswhile shooting love scenes. I wonder when Pitt will wake up.
Who ever thinks she is a well liked actress is not reading bolgs recently. I say she is slowly falling to the most hated.
Karma will bite her hard. Just you wait.
Ho-humm..shocker. I remember the first photos of her and Brad in some far-far away desert and wondering how the HELL the Paps figured that one out. Now we know.
i've always thought she was fake fake fake!!
My what vicious, jealous people.
Give credit where it's due. Angie is a wonderful philanthropist. Also, Brad is a much NICER person with Angie in his life.
ANGELINE JOLIE USE HER MOTHER DIED LAST YEAR FOR THE PROMOTION OF HER LAST MOVIE... IT IS DIFFICULT TO NOT THINK THAT SHE IS NOT A MANIPULATIVE...
Angelina is very unhealthy.
evil
She's still a brother screwing, blood drinking, husband stealing white trash ho. She can pretend that she is some goddess but she's just a rich skank.
THAT WAS WHAT ALWAYS KEPT ME WONDERING, WHY DO THE MAGAZINE DONT SEE THE WRONG SHE WAS DOING, EVERYTIME IT WAS ONLY THE GOOD, NEVER THE BAD, IT SEEMS LIKE THEY PATCH UP ALL HER MISTAKES. YOU ALWAYS HERE WHAT DID SHE DO FOR THE POOR. ANGELINA JUST KNOW HOW.....
THAT WAS WHAT ALWAYS KEPT ME WONDERING, WHY DO THE MAGAZINE DONT SEE THE WRONG SHE WAS DOING, EVERYTIME IT WAS ONLY THE GOOD, NEVER THE BAD, IT SEEMS LIKE THEY PATCH UP ALL HER MISTAKES. YOU ALWAYS HERE WHAT DID SHE DO FOR THE POOR. ANGELINA JUST KNOW HOW.....
She's all 4 the public & fake as a person can ever b. She's using Mr. Tit, the children and "all the good work" she's done so the world would feel 4 her & luv her! Won't happen.
Angelina Jolie has transformed herself from a "former Hollywood eccentric" who played with knives into a respected mother of six and United Nations do-gooder. HYPOCRITE...
We recently lost another actor famed for his looks and his dedication to charity—Paul Newman. Over the years His "Newman's Own" brand yielded more than $250 million that went straight to charity. He was also famous for having one of the strongest, longest-lasting marriages in show biz: he and Joanne Woodward were married for 50 years.
What didn't get prominent play after his death is the fact that when he met Joanne, they were both understudies for a Broadway play—and he was married and had three children. As Joanne said of that time, "there was a lot of lust." They were already living together when he filed for divorce. They had three daughters together, which made him the father of six.
My point: If you think that you know everything there is to know about AJ + BP, the past, present, and future, you have greater self-assurance than you deserve. If you think six children is a monster-size family, you're probably young (I am one of six children, and when I was growing up in the Midwest, six children wasn't considered a large family at all). We all have some responsibility for the "smell" of the world we share. When we say profoundly ugly things about people we don't and never will know, the putrid smell isn't coming from them—it's coming from us. The arrogant ignorance isn't theirs—it's ours.
Mary, why are you trying to condone adultery? What Paul Newman and Joanne Woodard did was wrong also. However, they did not flaunt their affair or "lust" for each other publicly. Also, they did get married! Brad and Angelina keep having these children out of wedlock, and she was in fact, pregnant while still denying that she and Brad were involved. Once a slut, always... Brad wants all of the children, Angelina, wanted to steal Brad, whether he and his wife were having problems or not, hence the baby making machine began. No, six are not too many children, and I am from the Midwest, but six without a marital commitment is far too many. I am not judging, but I am sick and tired of the comparison of Paul and Joanne, to these morans, Brad and Angelina. Everything that they do is publicity oriented. They are full of *hit, and if you don't know that, then you must be his mother!