Yes, you are mourning the separation of Brangelina and apparently there is science to justify your grief. Meanwhile just outside of Hollywoodland, Kim Kardashian has a much more current affairs crisis (even including the speculation that Brad Pitt has been having a scene with co-star Marion Cotillard who doubts the official version of 9/11).
Kardashian was incensed when the Wall Street Journal ran a full-page ad by the Turkic Platform that denies that the Ottomans (aka Turkey) systematically killed or drove to death what is estimated to be anything between 664,000 and 1.2 million Armenians in 1915. The word genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer, to describe what happened to the Armenians. After the Holocaust, it is the most studied massacre of the 20th century. The WSJ defended themselves by saying, “We accept a wide range of advertisements, including those with provocative viewpoints. While we review ad copy for issues of taste, the varied and divergent views expressed belong to the advertisers.”
Kardashian, who is half Armenian, took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to respond to what she says is a reckless irresponsible move by WSJ. Back in April, when the WSJ ad had been published on Armenian Remembrance Day, Kardashian had been scathing in her blog post.
After visiting Armenia on the 100 anniversary of the genocide last year, Kardashian had written an essay in Time magazine urging Turkey to accept responsibility. She wrote, “My great-great-grandparents came from Armenia to Los Angeles in 1914, right before the genocide happened. We have no existing family left in Armenia. Had they not escaped, we wouldn’t be here..” Her NY Times response ad begins with more thrilling prose: Money talks, and right now it’s talking crap.
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