Cenk Uygur
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Associated Press Tweet Calls Human Rights Activist An "Actor's Wife"
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September 1, 2015
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7:02Now PlayingThe Associated Press is under fire for the way they tweeted about Amal Clooney. They referred to her as “actor’s wife” which seems to ignore her vast accomplishments as a human rights lawyer. Critics are accusing the AP of sexism. Ana Kasparian (The Point), John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“She’s a renowned human rights lawyer whose clients have included Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the state of Cambodia. She’s been appointed to several United Nations commissions, and has spent time teaching at Columbia Law School, The Hague Academy of International Law and other respected institutions.
Yet, on Saturday, when the Associated Press penned a tweet about Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin), they chose not to identify her by her many achievements but instead by her marriage to actor George Clooney.”
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