Loading ...Amal Clooney: Media Around The World At Risk, Blames Trump’s Attacks
SOURCE: HOT AIR
BY: KAREN TOWNSEND
Amal Clooney, the wife of actor George Clooney, is a human rights lawyer and the U.K. government’s special envoy on media freedom. She delivered a speech at the Global Conference for Media Freedom in London last week where she declared that President Trump vilifies the press to the point that they are vulnerable worldwide. She wasn’t quite bold enough to name-check Trump directly but rest assured she delivered her message loud and clear.
Clooney used a reference to James Madison to make her point. It’s not often that America is referred to as “the country of James Madison”, is it?
“Today, the country of James Madison has a leader who vilifies the media, making honest journalists all over the world more vulnerable to abuse,” Clooney said.
She continued: “With authoritarianism, isolationism and nationalism gaining ground, the relevance of international institutions and respect for intentional norms are seriously in question.”
I do wonder why she felt the need to preface the word “journalists” with “honest”, though.
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Listening to this clip from Reuters’ Twitter account, I hear some applause begin to break out. No doubt our European and Canadian betters enjoyed her attack on the American president. The governments of the UK and Canada are working together “to defend media freedom and improve the safety of journalists who report across the world” according to the conference’s website.