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When confirmed bachelor George Clooney finally did get married, the world fell in love with his accomplished wife. Amal Clooney, née Alamuddin, is a human rights lawyer who has defended big names like Julian Assange and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, as well as Al Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy. She's been an appointee to numerous U.N. panels, including one that investigated America's use of drones as counter-terrorism tools. She clerked for Justice Sonia Sotomayor in the U.S. Court of Appeals. She's also co-authored four legal books. It's quite a resumé.

But to the Associated Press, she's just Mrs. George Clooney. The venerable news source sent out a tweet on Saturday in the very early morning, promoting a link to a story on the latest development in her case with Fahmy, in which they refer to her as "actor's wife." Sigh.

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Amal Clooney, actor's wife, representing Al-Jazeera journalist accused in Egypt of ties to extremists http://t.co/i6nQg0xPg3
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 29, 2015

Understandably, many people are not impressed with this the decision. Given all of her accomplishments and the context of the tweet, isn't she a little bit more than a someone married to an actor?

!!! Fixed it for you @AP. Let me know if you need an introduction to the 21st century. https://t.co/Zj5K0ocvto pic.twitter.com/tgI27xGWhg
— Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) August 29, 2015

@AP it's a good job that when she's not being George Clooney's wife she's not like A HIGH PROFILE HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER or anything.
— Tim Stillman (@Stillberto) August 29, 2015

@AP poor choice of words. A woman is not defined by her spouse. You can do better.
— Jessica M (@jayjum) August 29, 2015

.@AP Whoever wrote that tweet is a jackass. Amal is @MFFahmy11's lawyer. The CDN govt abandoned him. #cdnpoli DO NOT trivialize Amal's work.
— H K S (@Klayoven) August 29, 2015

Lawyer? Attorney? Advocate? Solicitor? Correct description rather than "actor's wife" & the story is about the journalist by the way! @AP
— Gone to Swan (@waheedaharris) August 29, 2015

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