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[Patrick F]

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Hollywood actress ANGELINA JOLIE has hit back at critics of her aid work, challenging them to experience global poverty first hand before they comment on her charitable actions. The MR AND MRS SMITH star - who visited Africa last month (FEB07) to raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan - has toured some of the world's most deprived countries in her role as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. But she has regularly come under fire from parts of the media for using her celebrity status to highlight her charity work - a critique Jolie is particularly enraged with. She says, "Because I do care about the opinion of the aid worker, I do care about the opinion of the refugee. "I care less about the opinion of the person who's never been in the field but has an opinion about celeb

What I think about all that is that her humanitarian travels are not over-mediatized (I don't know if it's the same in the States, in Canada, in Australia, in Asia or anywhere else...); we never hear about her on TV or on the radio, sometimes a little article in the written press, and that's about it.
So, it's obvious Angie doesn't do all that to advertise herself, she's not the kind of person who would think "I'm active in charity work, that's good for my image, so let's do it to become more and more famous".
No, not on your nelly, Angie would never think such a thing, she's sincere, she cares about people. I must admit, if I were in a similar situation, I'd fly in rage ...

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I must say that the only times I saw anything to do with AJ in the Portuguese TV news was,
because of DAVOs 2 years ago, maybe because of her trip to afeganistan after the earhtquake (can't remenber well), because of Shiloh being born ...(even that was AJ's way of turning attention to a African country), and now because of her latest trip...



I think she uses her "celebrety status" to make aware, through media, people all over...of the refugees problems,
Whi wouldn't she?!
sometimes it's the only way, some people, get to hear from it.
sometimes it's the only way, some media, get to write/publish about it:)

but than...there's a lot she does that it's not as mediatized, if all...
the trip/work she did in Sierra Leone, what she's doing in Cambodja, what she does in the US to help foreign kids to have law help, etc...

there will be always someone to critize her...
most of times is just to"to say bad" about her, not about the work...
people that never did anything...not even tried to do something...people that don't even car about the refugee problems

[Patrick F]

Exactly, it's just for the sake of criticizing her.
As we say in French : "quand on veut battre un chien, on trouve toujours un bâton", which means, literally translated : "when you wanna beat a dog, you always find a stick".
And it's good celebrities care about issues ...
I remember for instance in the sixties, French actress, Brigitte Bardot (then considered as one of the most beautiful women and incidentally a quite good actress as well, now she's in her 70's) draw the attention to the killing of baby seals just to use their fur to make coats; later on, politicians decided to tackle the problem. If Brigitte hadn't intervened then, who knows, seals might be an extinguished species now.