Saturday, June 6, 2026

Today Show Double Standard: Lets Angelina Jolie Off Hook on Hacking After Booting Amy Adams

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Al Roker just interviewed Angelina Jolie about Unbroken, an NBC Universal movie. At the end he said “We asked her about the Sony hacking scandal including emails between Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin about her, and she politely declined to answer.”

Really? Two weeks ago the Today show cancelled their interview with Amy Adams, after she’d arrived for a live spot, when she said she wasn’t comfortable talking about the scandal.

Of course, Amy’s movie wasn’t from Universal, the parent company of NBC.

Whoops! Double standard?

Also, Angelina’s interview, you know, was taped and edited. She didn’t have to get up at some ungodly hour to promote her film, “Big Eyes.”

Let’s not forget, Angelina was actually part of the emails that were hacked. Amy Adams had nothing at all to do with them. So it was actually more pertinent to get Jolie’s take.

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