{"id":213502,"date":"2019-05-09T05:40:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T09:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=213502"},"modified":"2019-05-09T05:40:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T09:40:57","slug":"clooney-hopes-media-will-be-kinder-to-meghan-the-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/09\/clooney-hopes-media-will-be-kinder-to-meghan-the-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Clooney hopes media will be ‘kinder’ to Meghan the mom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: After a meeting with actor and human rights activist George Clooney, the President invited him and three of his colleagues to shoot hoops on the White House basketball court. This photo garnered a lot of attention when it was hung on the walls of the West Wing.\u201d (Photo<\/a>
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LOS ANGELES \u2014 George Clooney is hoping the media will be gentler to Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, after she gave birth to a baby boy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people should be a little kinder. She’s a young woman who just had a baby, you know?\u201d Clooney told The Associated Press on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Clooney is a good friend of Meghan and Prince Harry. He and his lawyer wife Amal attended the royal wedding last year, and Amal was one of the guests at Meghan’s baby shower. Clooney has been outspoken in his defence of Meghan, a former actress and American, who has been the subject of harsh gossip in some publications.<\/p>\n

At the premiere of his new Hulu series \u201cCatch-22,\u201d Clooney said the media scrutiny will likely intensify now that the baby, who was named Archie, has arrived. He conceded that some of that comes with the royal territory.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you’re a royal, that’s what you have to do,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s the other versions of it: Going to interview people’s parents, that kind of stuff. It starts to step into a really dark place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides celebrating upcoming May 17 debut of \u201cCatch-22,\u201d Clooney was also in a joyous mood because of the release of two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who had been imprisoned in Myanmar. They were released early Tuesday after more than a year behind bars. They won the Pulitzer Prize last month for international reporting, along with the AP.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife spent the last year, every day, with (Reuters chief counsel) Gail Gove and with (Reuters editor-in-chief) Stephen Adler, working, as hard as you could work, behind the scenes, to get these guys out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd last night, for my (58th) birthday, at my birthday dinner, those two men walked out,\u201d Clooney continued. \u201cAnd I have to tell you, I couldn’t be more proud of my wife. I couldn’t be more proud of Reuters and the way they stuck up for journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt’s a dangerous time to be a journalist. So, to win one, I’m very proud of my wife. And congratulations to everyone \u2014 and the AP.\u201d<\/p>\n

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