a letter to jennifer aniston

This is a brief overview. The numbered sections below are just in case you want more in depth info.

You came on my radar in 2004 when your then husband was filming Mr and Mrs Smith with Angelina Jolie. The mainstream press was an avalanche of stories about that. Had they become too close on set? Was your marriage in trouble because of your husbands closeness to his co star? But these stories were quickly eclipsed by a new story; your marriage was in trouble because you were denying your husband babies. Brad, a simple, family man at heart, was unhappy in his marriage because his career minded wife wouldn't have a baby. Soon there was a torrent of stories like this for every one story questioning what was happening on set. And the press trod respectfully around him: posing a question about him and his co star, while flat out stating their stories about you as fact.

For some period of time before this I had started to read celebrity gossip. It was my way to relax: reading mindless fluff. It was because of this reading that I brought a little bit of extra knowledge to the images the mainstream press was crafting of you, him, and her.

The first time I noticed her was through the mainstream press when she married Billy Bob Thornton. I had no idea he had been with someone else and the relationships overlapped. Laura Dern was certainly never mentioned in any of the stories I saw (and when I went looking later, she was not mentioned in the majority of stories). To me, at the time, they were just the new kooky couple in Hollywood. It's embarrasing to think back to what a fast asleep, unquestioning zombie I was, but I will disclose it here in hopes it will help others. I believed Everything I read in the press. And I mean celebrity gossip (CG) press as well as mainstream (MP). If it was in the press, it was true. So I believed all the image crafting around her. She was a woman of substance unlike all the other women of H.Wood who were shallow and superficial by comparison! She was an activist and wanted to help the poor and
downtrodden! She was no spoiled princess; she was a woman of the people! So I believed when her and Thornton split it was because she grew and her focus became charity and helping others; he was only concerned with acting and his band - How could he let her down like that!! I was glad Maddox had her, thought she was admirable, was sure she'd do good with her charity work.

I continued reading, including celebrity gossip archives, and gradually started to see a different picture of her.

From her earliest work, she was known for being difficult and causing trouble on set. On the set of Girl Interrupted she made a point of excluding Winnona Ryder and being nasty to her to the point where the producers had to step in and tell her to knock it off. She took on the characteristics of each character she played, in her real life - like she was empty inside and always trying on new personas. The crew and other "non talent" were beneath her. Mental problems including animal abuse, being committed, alcohol and drug abuse. These were all things that were not just mentioned by the press, she
talked about them. And then there was the big one, the thing everyone in H.Wood knows her for. She had affairs with her co stars in every movie she was in, and every other man that came her way, with a preference for taken men.

No man seemed to be able to resist her, even men that didn't normally cheat(1) and she seemed to delight in the pain she caused their partners. Oliver Stone, Colin Farrell, Olivier Martinez, Antonio Banderas, Mick Jagger, Jared Leto, Clive Owen; on and on. Eventually her behaviour became such a cliche there were rarely even full stories; just a tired "And on this movie she had an affair with" in one of those tiny boxes at the bottom of a column where one sentence has to be broken up into three lines.

My opinion of her changed radically to put it mildly. At first I believed the stories simply because they were in the press (CG) but as I learned to question more, I saw how she referenced them in interviews, to deny. I saw how important her image and having people think well of her, was. How she could never ignore them; she had to jump in to deny, deny, deny.

I also saw how great things were expected of her after her Oscar win but when a series of disappointments followed, neither the press nor the public had any interest in her. Basically she couldn't get arrested in H.Wood. So who cared enough to follow her from set to set making up the same lie about her? And what about the fact these stories weren't from one reporter or publication, but all across the board? And if they did want to lie to make her look bad..... wouldn't they be invested enough to also fake full stories with quotes from people "on set"? Not just one throwaway line (that most of the public missed)?(2)

After splitting with Thornton, there were photos taken of her playing in a park with Maddox. The press made clear that she had set up the photos. I suppose she thought she was being clever by having the photographers a short distance away, and she often had her back to the camera: who would set up photos of themselves like that? They had to be genuine, candid shots! Or at least that's what the viewer was supposed to believe.

She badmouthed Thornton, putting the blame for the marriage breakdown on him. Old stories I found showed she did the same to her previous husband Jonny Lee Miller. According to the scant few stories I found about each marriage break up that were not from either side, each man left her by leaving for work and never coming back. After reading her oldest interviews where she talked much more freely and the CG stories of her instability, overlapping cheating, inability to be alone, jealousy, rage, controlling, and boasts of sex with her brother when she first came to H.Wood, I understood why they would flee like domestic violence victims.

I know my knowing this stuff doesn't sound impressive now since most of it has come out in bits and pieces in the MP (usually when they're mad at her) but I read this in CG press around 05-06, much earlier than the MP wrote any of this stuff. And of course I was reading archives so it was written even earlier.

I learned something most famous people wouldn't want the public to know; most CG is (or was at that time), true. And why wouldn't it be? The press would develop contacts around famous people, pay good money for information, people would look at the charmed life of celebs and think "Why them and not me?" and happily sell info to the press. The only exceptions were people who the press had a vendetta against or a co operative working relationship with. Even then though, by watching the same person for a long period of time, reading everything written about them, their interviews; the lies could be seen. And by seeing what was lied about, (image management) you could figure out the truth.

While with Thornton she raved constantly about how much she loved him, how great the sex was but according to the CG press (in a throwaway line) she cheated on him with Nicolas Cage when they made a movie. It became clearer and clearer her intruding into other peoples relationships was never about the latest man. It was about hurting the woman he was with. When having an affair with Olivier Martinez she went out of her way to make sure news got back to his girlfriend Kylie Minogue, she delighted in being caught with Antonio Banderas by Melanie Griffith.

By the time it was announced she would be making a movie with your husband, I knew what she would try to do: people are their patterns. But I thought there was no one left in H.Wood who would fall for her lies. Any man she approached telling him how wonderful and special he was, driving wedges in his relationship by becoming a confidant then telling him his partner was cruel/ controlling/ neglectful/ not good enough for him, any man she was rubbing all over like a cat in heat would know she had no interest in him; her interest was in his wife or girlfriend. But then the stories about their closeness on set started. He was always last and least on every would-be affair partners list because he valued what he had with you too much, and turned them all down. But he had not been able to resist her just like no man could resist her. There is no such thing as a person who is attractive, irresistable, to all. But there she was(1). Strange.


When your marriage broke up, when the stories damning you became greater in number, I wished people would read back over her past to see the truth about her. While the mainstream press potrayed her as an activist and crusader for the poor and downtrodden; the wonderful woman who was giving Poor Brad the child he had always longed for, her history on celebrity gossip sites told a different story. Once they were openly together, the CG press was black or white. They either had a love story for the ages or he was miserable due to her rage, controlling, and mood swings. And by now I knew which image of her was true by simply finding and reading as many of her old interviews as I could. And I knew who gave the press the "white" stories about her and them.

Her thinking, reasoning, ways of looking at things was off... odd. Her interviews contained many Huh?/ What?/ Double take moments. When I finally read about Borderline Personality Disorder, it fit PERFECTLY. All the odd things she said made sense in that context. Her interviews and BPD descriptors helped more than anything in sorting through the avalanche of stories that followed your separation and divorce, as she stepped into your recently vacated position by his side and enjoyed the higher profile career that should have been yours after proving yourself for a decade on Friends and bringing projects like A Mighty Heart to your production company. And of course the previous CG stories of her behaviour fit with a BPD diagnosis also.

The higher profile resulted in something she knew would happen, considered, and decided was worth it for the new big beautiful life she would gain; a heightened interest in her private life and past.

Some people read celebrity gossip, looking into her past and joining the dots. There were many more negative stories about her on CG sites than there had been in the past. They were mostly ignored by mainstream media which meant that people who didn't read CG, maybe even considered it beneath them and for simple minded people, missed seeing the truth about someone the MP sold to them as a wonderful person. A shame because it might have started them wondering what else the MP could lie to them about.

She could no longer rampage through H.Wood relationships as she had once done. Now if she was difficult or nasty on set, people were talking about it online. For people without conscience the past doesn't exist but now people were matching her old statements with new and calling her a liar, her old behaviour with new and calling her a fraud. When she changed her behaviour/ attitude/ statements after criticism online, but of course not related to the criticism, since she said repeatedly she never read her own press (the timing must have been a coincidence I guess), she was called a phony. As much as
it enraged her BPD ego to kowtow to these insects, she also couldn't take blame, judgement, or being thought of negatively, so she tried to placate them.

If the C.G press had stories her kids were raised by a host of nannies and she had little to do with them apart from taking her anger out on them, there were photos of her taking the kids on a fun outing (the photographers helpfully waiting till the nannies stepped out of the shot). If there were stories she and Brad were fighting: here was a photo of them on date night. If she messed up in an interview and called Shiloh a blob and talked about getting knocked up? In the next interview she would helpfully be asked if Shiloh was planned, allowing her a chance to smooth over the public backlash to her previous statement (that she didn't know about).

Yet no matter what she did the insects wouldn't leave her alone. As she spun faster and faster trying to make her stories fit, her image fit; only one thing was 100% clear to her. Who was responsible for all this. The internet that gave people numerous sources of info rather than just mainstream press? Herself for doing everything she could to court publicity and attention, while also wanting her skeletons to remain hidden? Of course not! Since she was blameless in this situation as in all, only one person could have done this to her. You.

Many people who started reading about her as light hearted CG, came to see they were reading a much bigger, more important story. But the biggest mistake most of them made was not reading about you. They would say "She doesn't interest me," because you had successfully made yourself grey rock, knowing both Jolie and Pitt were stalking you through the press. But in not reading about you, they missed out on a huge piece of the story. How could they learn about how much power celebrity gives, and what corrupt evil people can do with that power, if they didn't read about one of the favourite targets of two such
people?

Her power over the press grew over time. Initially they would write the stories and take the photos she wanted, but they were also happy to bust her and say she gave those stories. They wrote negative stories about her too. They clearly didn't like her. As the years passed however, the negative stories about her dwindled as the ones about you grew. But her power wasn't only over the press. Her work with the UN did more than just rehabilitate her image. Her meetings with world leaders did more than provide a good photo op. The charitable foundation was never about donating money to worthy causes.

I read everything I could find about the two of them and you. I felt bad, knowing you are a private person but this was bigger than you. This was about waking up and seeing how the world works. I copied and pasted stories, made sure to get links, dates, story authors, photos, footage, you name it (too many times stuff had changed or disappeared) (3).

It was from you I learned the press is one organisation that works together. I learned they can be controlled by actors - so who else can control them? I learned to turn each piece of info I received over and over like a rubik's cube, examining all sides and angles; not just about this situation. About everything. I saw how suggestible most people are, how easily they can be distracted from the truth. I learned how important reading was and that to fully understand the world you needed to read a few different areas - advice columns to see that people are herd animals and do the same few things over and over (so you can learn to spot bad people, their patterns, and how to avoid them). True crime to spot targets, read about wildly different treatment and sentences of people who committed similar crimes till you see how the "justice system" is as fake as the press and their real job is to elevate some and crush others. And CG to see how many followed in the footsteps of The Brand and control their own press.

To show you can gain truth even by reading lies, I will tell you some things I learned about you, them, and how the world works. If I listed all the sketchy crap they have been involved in, I would be typing for a week so I will just list a few things, as well as tell you something about yourself you either don't know, or didn't know for the majority of the time you have been divorced from him. Some of these things are discussed by other people on CG forums but some are unknown by most people who follow them, without also reading about you.

I should also add I stopped reading about you and them years ago so have little current knowledge. My reading became about helping me wake up and see how the world works, and once I knew those things, there was no need to keep reading. I just looked you up every once in a while, just to see what was going on with you as I wished you well and only wanted good things for you. And every now and then I'd catch something about them.

She wrote most of the stories that have appeared in the press about you since 2004, creating and shaping an image for you.

Poor-Sad-Pathetic-Jen who was constantly getting dumped, Jen and her drinking problem, serial homewrecking, jealousy and competitiveness with other women, Poor-Sad-Lonely-Jen who drove all the men away because she was so needy: all from Angelina Jolie. Having this image cast on you must have sometimes been infuriating but for an outsider looking in, who also understands BPD projection, they were also illuminating. The truth about who the borderline really was: direct from her own subconcious.

But these of course weren't the most painful stories that were heaped on you over the years once she evicted you from your life and took your place. That was the pregnancy stories.

If you wore something loose you were trying to hide a pregnancy. Something tight? Then wait for the fabric to pull across your hips creating a little bulge across your middle, snap the picture and here come the "Jen's pregnant!" stories. IVF! Adoption! Pregnant and dumped! The number of stories reflected the strength of your desire to be a mother. She did this because she is a sadistic psychopath.

Although most of her stories were in the CG press, the MP also knew she wrote those stories, that she controlled your image as well as her own. They said nothing because they bowed down to her also. And adopted the image of you that she wanted, repeating these false stories themselves(4).

But it wasn't just the constant press attacks you had to contend with because your husband had an affair and lied about it. There were her fans. Borderlines instinctively recognise each other the same way they see other people's weak spots. And they flocked to embrace her. Known all over the internet as loonies, they gloated and reveled in your pain, trashed you as a liar whose marriage was already over when work began on Smith, made up lies about you, and attacked and threatened anyone who dared to defend you. But that was only on celebrity gossip sites and forums that were open to all. On their own private message boards, invitation only sites etc, they didn't hold back and revealed their true character behind the masks. The sites were they plotted to kill you so people would stop looking at AJ as a homewrecker.

People mentioned these sites and the things they said but I personally didn't see them at first, until somebody either hacked one or joined by subterfuge, then copied and pasted conversations onto a regular site. I remember reading a thread where they were talking about ways to get close enough to you to kill you. On regular sites they often came across as chaotic, unstable, and just angry, tweens but that was only one segment of them. There were also the calculating, methodical ones who could work patiently towards their goal.

Some proposed ambushing you when you were walking to work, after watching a few days to learn your routine. Then they would shoot you. They said they would not try to escape. They would be proud to be arrested for defending AJ. Others counselled them not to do this as Poor AJ would be blamed as she was always blamed for every bad thing that happened to you. So the discussion moved to scouting the area and plotting out a route to escape. Which street was a dead end? If they had to run through people's gardens, who had dogs? By which street would the police show up and how long would it take them? (Report a false emergency to find out).

An alternate plan was joining a bodyguard/ protection agency, and reaching you that way since you used bodyguards. They would guard different clients, take various jobs, before asking to guard you as they had always admired you.

Gloves. DNA. Hairs and fibres that may fall from them and be left at the scene. Invisible blood traces that may end up on their clothes or shoes. But these weren't just empty words along the lines of "Wouldn't it be great if she was dead and gone?" or just blowing off steam. They planned for all eventualities including being caught. Arranging an alibi before setting off. Don't talk to the police: they'll try to confuse you and get in your head so learn their pressure tactics in advance. The best lawyers to hire. The best courtroom strategies. Throwing out so many red herrings the jury would be too confused to be able to reliably say they did it. This thought closed with "If it doesn't fit you must acquit. O.J, O.J, O.J."

I knew you made a point of staying away from CG but I also realised writings like these must have been brought to your attention. And since being able to move freely and live without unfair restriction meant so much to you, you must have had these writings evaluated by psychologists/ psychiatrists/ profilers etc before you started using bodyguards.

All of her adoptions have been shady, with a black market baby, a child who was never officially up for adoption and was effectively stolen, money greasing hands to let her break the countries adoption rules.

She claims to have done huge amounts of work in Cambodia; clearing landmines, building or funding schools, hospitals, roads, bringing jobs........ but she wouldn't let anyone see it? The same person who would issue a press release about donating a couple of bicycles shrouded all this incredible work in the greatest secrecy? Maybe the secrecy has something to do with the claims from employees that the foundation funding all this work has done nothing, while on paper masses of cash pass through the place? At least one of these men was then arrested for being the one who stole the foundations cash. So first he carried out the theft, then having got away with the crime drew attention to it? Where is that man now? Since she has the Cambodian govt in her back pocket, is he in prison for someone else's crime? Knowing how she feels about anyone who risks her image he will probably be there the rest of his life or until she loses her power.

She and Pitt paying lip service to supporting a free press while having journalists jailed or deported. What kind of champions of the poor shut down a border and stop people getting to their jobs? And why did they go to such lengths to hide in Namibia in 2006 anyway? As I'm sure you and H.wood already
know, to hide the fact she wasn't pregnant with Shiloh of course. That she got pregnant much earlier but they had to lie about dates because you cried and became upset at the possibility of them having a child in your Vanity Fair interview. Just another of your vicious attacks on her; the victim in this, and in all, situations. But the most important part of this story is that the press knew. All segments of the press knew, and have always known, just as they knew who controlled your press. Just as they know all the despicable things done by The Brand.

Which brings us to your ex. He was not some innocent dragged along in her wake. Whatever she is, he is. He began an affair with her on the set of Smith while the two of you were very much married, in fact you were trying for a baby. He is a narcissist and is no more able to handle bad publicity than she is. And he did what he had to, to get the negative attention off him and onto you. It wasn't the first time, he felt totally justified; always has, always will.

When she told him she was pregnant and her masks dropped, he realised how he had been played, he realised that everyone who had warned him she pretended to be something she wasn't and he needed to end it, had been right. He understood everything at that stage. That the carefree persona had just been an act, that she had planned this all along because it was true she couldn't be alone. That by planting those stories he had put an apple on his head and handed her a bazooka.

There was only one way for him to escape her. To have you take him back. There was only one problem with that. He knew, like everyone in H.Wood knew, that when a relationship failed, you moved on without looking back. You were ruthless with your time because what you wanted most in the world was to find that one person, get married, have kids and be a happy family.

A plan was formed. The kind of plan that makes me say you need to hire former FBI profiler John Douglas (possible target) to read the press about you AND meet the people in your life.

He would spread stories through H.Wood, your dating pool, that you were waiting for him to get fed up of Angelina and come back to you. This kept serious marriage material away from you, and one day you would be so desperate for babies that you would be willing to take him back.

He was aided in his plan by his people who worked for him, and his friends. His family helped also but their job was more to provide a steady drip drip of stories, quotes and pictures to the press, readying the public for the day you would take him back. But of course the plan wouldn't have worked if it was only him and his camp.

When the time was finally right he contacted you; firstly to apologise for blowing up your marriage the way he did, then he wanted to be friends, then would come the part where you would take him back. He and his helpers were so sure it would happen, they didn't even make sure you were on board before they began to plant stories about the situation: Brad had developed a drinking problem due to the stress of living with the high maintenance and difficult Angelina, but he was getting better with the help of his doctor and an old friend. You were talking, meeting, his mother was facilitating the relationship. And the stories that showed personality disordered people don't learn from their pasts: "Jen's Revenge... she's going to steal him back!" And the press that had been attacking you for years were suddenly kissing your ass, while writing much more negative stories about Angelina, than they had been doing for a long time. Brad even pulled out his biggest weapon against her; saying SHE had been the one planting the "denying him babies" stories, and he angrily shut her down when he found out.

But nothing went as planned. Although you took his call, accepted his apology, took further calls: you refused to take him back. He begged. He pleaded. He crawled on his hands and knees. He made increasingly desperate promises. But you, the people pleaser, held firm. You, who had loved him more than you'd ever loved any man before him and he knew it, were effectively saying you'd rather be potentially single forever and give up on your greatest dream than have it with him.

The balance of power shifted in his relationship with AJ. He had refused to marry her all those years waiting for word the time was right to approach you. But now she had the upper hand. He WOULD marry her. He WOULD star in her vanity project movies. He WOULD pretend to fight with her in full view of the press as part of her never ending quest for pity. He raged angrily against you in Parade Magazine (for this and for narc 2) and follow up interviews but it was all he could do: he was trapped. (Note; "If he has compassion, kindness and an accurately sized ego" was an awesome smackdown.)

I only happened to catch one story each about the wedding, "mastectomy" and the balcony fight by complete accident; I just saw links to them as I was reading something else, and looked up stories about the divorce after someone mentioned it. So how did Brad escape? I have a theory but it is based on years old information. Nevertheless I am willing to bet it is mostly accurate, since people are their patterns and do the same things over and over.

She went too far and started doing things that risked damaging Brad's reputation and image. He brings in a lot of money for the power brokers in H.Wood and they wouldn't let her do anything to risk that money. So they ordered her to let him go. Because they had a piece of dynamite that could destroy her career just as she could destroy Brad's. Her serial affairs with taken men. She only *just* got away with what she did to you because of the narrative that it was your own fault. But what of all the other women? They would be ordered to stand up and say "Me too." How many affairs could she blame on the wife/ girlfriend before it was all over for her?

Now I may be wrong but my theory is based on:
A. The only thing that the public would feel is indefensible and could potentially destroy her career.
B. Someone willing to save Brad who wasn't before.

They accepted a certain amount of lashing out at Pitt but again reined her in when she went too far.

Now I have hopefully convinced you I know of some things going on around you, I want to tell you I know something else about you. I recognise you as a targeted individual. Read the threads For Newbies: "Organised Stalking" and "Directed Energy". Those people you mentioned in interviews who are always around when you walk down the street; saying weird things, doing weird things? Those people are organised stalkers. What they are doing is something targets call Street Theatre. They wait for you along your route then put on little skits designed to make you feel uncomfortable or embarrassed or uneasy that something is not right about the situation. After you are gone they laugh, high five each other and say "Did you see her? She doesn't know what's going on!" They have always been around you.

The people who have hurt/ betrayed you most in life; intimate betrayals, didn't end up in your life by chance or coincidence. They were sent to cause you pain. Your enemies know your greatest wish is to be married to a good person and have kids. But as a target, they will make sure you never get the things that mean most to you. Unless you read, understand what is going on in the world, how you fit into the plans of those who control the world, and fight back.

I could have danced in the streets when I read you were divorcing narc husband 2, good riddance to him and his massive hostility towards you that was evident to me from the beginning. But the sad truth is, unless you accept you are a target and read, he will only be replaced by narc husband 3. And on and on.

Your situation with him should not have happened. You have been in some sort of therapy since your twenties. You life has been an intense crash course in disordered personalities since 2003 (although there were plenty before that). You are smart about people, their motivations, relationships. You should be able to spot a narcissist at 200 yards by now. But it happened again. This is how spot blinding works. Hopefully your interest in the mind body connection(1) and your artists ability to think big will help you not turn away.

I know you think we call things into our life and everything happens for a reason. But the world is much crueler than that. Most bad things that happen have human hands behind them, even the things we think humans can't control, and/ or things no one would be cruel enough to do to a stranger. And as a target you have more than your fair share of these peoples attention. Read. Form closer friendships with the targets in your own community; Elton John, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carey, Randy Quaid, Amanda Bynes, Rene Russo. Be each others support.


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2. When you and no.2 went public the press was full of stories about your "on set affair". Full page, blaring headline stories, for months; not one throwaway line. It was clear the stories were from someone who didn't know you since they didn't know the two of you didn't meet on set, that you had already known each other for years. Once I stopped reading your press constantly, and just dipped in now and again, I was discerning. I refused to give hits to any of the "Jen Dumped/ Jen Pregnant" and other hate filled attacks launched your way and just read the odd impartial story about what was going on in your life (according to you).

I refused to give any of the "affair" stories hits but at the same time I was curious to read one because as we all know, when you're going to lie, you should make as much of the lie as possible, be the truth. And I felt reading one of these stories (one would be enough; the author never knows when it's enough and so does the same thing over and over) would be the closest the public would come to hearing the truth about what happened on the set of Mr And Mrs Smith, from one of the principals. Finally I saw one somebody had copied and pasted onto a non CG site, and read it. It was indeed what I had thought it would be, including gems such as "As soon as she met him on set, she decided she wanted him for herself. She knew he was in a relationship but she didn't care about that at all." And "she would walk across the set (or lot; can't remember now) brazenly to his trailer at lunch time. Everybody knew what she was going there for but she didn't care."

It must be frustrating for you to see how unquestioning people are with this stuff but hopefully they will learn as I did. Firstly if you were having an on set affair with a man in a relationship; You! Everybody's favourite Wronged Woman and role model for how to survive stuff like this, it would be dynamite information, and the person who sold it to the press would be well rewarded. So why didn't these "on set sources" do so when it was happening? Why did they wait until after the two of you went public and their information was worth less?

Why didn't your "friends" who gushed to the press about no. 2's proposal give the information to the press immediately after it happened, thereby earning themselves more money, instead of waiting till he made a statement?


You have no one around you who sells stories about you. Which speaks volumes.



3. I and numerous other people who posted on CG sites and forums had the same experience of reading negative information about her through both MP and CG outlets, that later disappeared. She proves that "Once it's on the internet it's out there forever!" is a lie. On the plus side, she has probably helped many people wake up.



4. Coming to realise the press was one organisation that moved together to present an image of the world they want the insects to see, while pretending to be separate entities was something that happened gradually.

It was seeing some big scandal involving The Brand in CG but when I went looking in MP, there wasn't a single word about it. Over and over and over. I turned the situation over and over like a Rubik's Cube, giving them the benefit of the doubt always.

Maybe they didn't know.
Maybe even media organisations that had both a regular news section and a CG section; the two sections had nothing to do with each other.
Different sources
didn't speak to each other
the CG section wouldn't tell the MP section when they were printing incorrect information (acting more like enemies than 2 departments in the same organisation).

But just when I had finally accepted the MP didn't know, they would make a passing reference to the scandal. I would think (with increasing disgust as time passed) "Oh so you did know. You just didn't feel like telling your readers."

They adopted the narratives that were constantly pushed in CG press as being the truth. Since these were fictions; how could they adopt them unless they did swap information with CG press?

But they would also sometimes go against these created narratives. Eg; millions of "poor sad needy Jen" stories but a few others that (briefly) made clear you had ended things with Vince Vaughn and Pitt, and refused all their pleas to get back together.

I learned I just had to be patient and wait and the truth would come out one way or another. Reading your old and current interviews helped also.

I saw one story (throwaway line) that AJ had people in H.Wood who she paid to spread lies and nasty stories about you. Something I was expecting to read one day since I had been reading for years all the quotes from Friends writers about what a terrible person you were and how much they hated working with you. I knew they were lying because 99.99% of people who had worked with you had nothing but good things to say. But many of them have not worked much since Friends and you have said many times how much you loved working on that show, and with those people.

So why would the MP ignore a big story only to reference it later? Why would they push a narrative/ image 99% of the time but then go against it? For the same reason I started reading, saving, checking and cross referencing stories about you and The Brand. Because the real story is that the press cannot be believed. They elevate some and destroy others, upon orders. They all reported the same image of you, while going against it when it suited them. They all reported the same image of The Brand while going against it when it suited them. They HAVE to show people they are not to be trusted as part of the game they are in. But they are also allowed to weight everything in their favour; so they showed the truth about themselves in a section of press most awake, aware, thinking people consider beneath them and wouldn't read.
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It isn't just you. The first stories I read about Kevin Spacey* and others (in a throwaway line) were from MP years and years ago. Long before the scandals hit. Although you have been the biggest target, so the most attacked, so the biggest, eye opening teacher.

*I believe Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein and the others who are being the most attacked currently in H.Wood (while everyone carefully skirts around
what happened with you) are most likely to be targets, rather than predators so they have my support.