AP scolds your lack of pop culture knowledge July 3, 2008
Posted by Chris Stover in Cut to the Chase, Journalism.Tags: Angelina Jolie, Babies, Brad Pitt, Journalism
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Don’t worry. Brangelina has not yet given birth.
The Associated Press covered a French doctor’s announcement that Angelina Jolie checked into the hospital for normal baby reasons. No emergency, no pinching a baby’s bottom.
However, one small graf from the AP stood out in my mind…
“Mrs. Angelina Jolie and her husband, Mr. Brad Pitt, told me to tell you that she is doing absolutely fine,” said the doctor, apparently unaware that the actors aren’t married.
Well, excuse me. Not even I, a person who wrote an entertainment column for a year and keep up to date on the entertainment page on cnn.com, could keep track of which Hollywoodites are married and which ones aren’t.
Granted, the AP should have made a correction if they used that quote. Another solution? Don’t use that quote.
Now I’m taking much less (to no) offense to this than I may be portraying, but it’s humorous the doc made that mistake and the AP pointed it out.
The solution? If you’re dating in Hollywood, get married. That makes things easier for when you get divorced, as well. No?


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