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TexasMommaWithAHat

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1. Why should the story lead with Alamuddin?

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2014, 02:40 PM

Sep 2014

Most Americans have never heard of her, and I daresay that "most" people here at DU would not know of her had she not wed Clooney. She is much better known in the U.K. and Europe.

There's nothing mysogynistic, imo, in this type of reporting, although it most certainly would have been nice to have read about her accomplishments. After all, she is brainy and beautiful.

I'm sure you noticed that the article is almost entirely about "George."

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Internationally Acclaimed Human Rights Lawyer Amal Alamuddin Marries an Actor Named George [View all] Fred Sanders Sep 2014 OP

Why should the story lead with Alamuddin? TexasMommaWithAHat Sep 2014 #1

this doesn't fit in with what all those men can't help it because evolution/biology JI7 Sep 2014 #2

I must confess I'd never heard of her Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #3

that's because she wasn't a celebrity JI7 Sep 2014 #5

She IS a celebrity of a sort unknown in America, a cerebral celebrity. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #11

George Clooney's commitment to marriage is a sign of the coming Apocalypse. Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #4

All I can say is . . . Brigid Sep 2014 #6

i'm sure there are other international human rights lawyers who are available JI7 Sep 2014 #7

I see what you did here. Brigid Sep 2014 #8

I am not sure who got the better catch, but I think it is George who lucked out. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #9

Indeed malaise Sep 2014 #13

Damn right. That is EXACTLY the way that it should be reported Number23 Sep 2014 #10

+1 I'm actually rather surprised treestar Sep 2014 #15

And I'll just bet that Clooney feels just like you do. CTyankee Sep 2014 #22

a pic from their Wedding on the people Magazine cover JI7 Sep 2014 #12

That is one stunning couple, she is a jewel. And it should be "Amal and George" on the cover. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #14

Hello Magazine overseas.... big_dog Sep 2014 #18

If a guy who won the nobel prize for science marries Madonna, she is going to get the lions stevenleser Sep 2014 #16

SHE is the one in focus outside the Western world that watches only Western movies. He is "George". Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #17

Few of my friends in European and Latin American media have heard of her before this. nt stevenleser Sep 2014 #19

Maybe you need to expand your circle of international media friends. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #20

Nope. She just wasn't that well known. nt stevenleser Sep 2014 #21

I think this is a poor example of institutional misogyny. RedCappedBandit Sep 2014 #23