In a letter Clooney penned to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, the former explained that it has become “untenable” of her to “urge other states to respect and enforce international obligations while the UK declares that it does not intend to do so itself”. Amal Clooney, prominent human rights lawyer and wife of famous American actor George Clooney, has ended up resigning from her position as UK envoy on media freedom, after the House of Commons passed the Internal Market Bill earlier this week. The new legislation, seeks to scale back some of Britain’s obligations under the Withdrawal Agreement, related to […]
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With a title like Trial by Media, you’d naturally expect Netflix’s true crime series—executive produced by CNN and The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin, alongside George Clooney and Grant Heslov—to focus on the multifaceted ways print and TV reporting affected, for better or worse, high-profile legal cases. Like a student term paper that sporadically forgets to relate all of its evidence to its thesis statement, the streaming service’s latest doesn’t always stick to that guiding objective. And yet at its best, this six-part affair does serve as a routinely dispiriting portrait of the press’ impact on the process of determining guilt and […]