I don’t know how many times I’ve tweeted the words that are now the title of this article but it has never been more appropriate. The level of acrobatics that are currently on display through printing presses the world over are rivaling Cirque du Soleil.
Over the last six weeks an enormous, publicly televised, defamation trial took place between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. After six long years of suffering and evidence slowly stacking up, Johnny Depp was awarded a landslide victory. All three statements under scrutiny in the courtroom were proven to be defamatory with Heard ordered to pay $15 million for her lies and deceit. One statement made by Depp’s lawyer, Adam Waldman, was awarded to her regarding splashing wine around a condo and “hoaxing” the police.
What should have followed is a complete denunciation of her actions and behavior towards not only him but how she paraded around the world under the guise of a victim. She was awarded speaking engagements, ACLU ambassadorships, and championed as a leader for women’s rights. The hammer should have come down hard after the very public mockery she made of all of the above in the courtroom. Instead the media has gone into an absolute spasm trying to save face and it is fucking disgusting.
A massive chasm has cracked open between what the public knowingly watched unfold on live stream and what the media is trying to pander to their readership. The trial was viewed daily by millions. The Law & Crime live stream had upwards of 350k viewers per day, the “lawtube” community overlaying commentary simultaneously stacked up hundreds of thousands of views. People watched this trial. They know exactly what happened and how Amber Heard was proven a liar over and over again. Yet the main stream media is out doing damage control for Heard because of women’s ideology narratives instead of apologizing to Johnny Depp, the actual domestic abuse survivor.
All kinds of ridiculous articles have appeared accusing the jury and the public of everything from misogyny to blindness. The pushback on this very obvious attempt at gaslighting has been swift and severe. Every single publication putting out a bullshit take is getting obliterated en masse and some outlets have resorted to turning off their Twitter comments in response. The world will not be told that they didn’t just see and hear what they know they just saw and heard. It is a beautiful thing to watch but horrifying to look at the legacy media carrying on lying on behalf of a woman who was just found to have lied about everything she said about this man.
What should be getting championed is the right to due process, the realization that men are victims of domestic abuse, accepting the fact that women are not a perfect species and capable of inflicting great harm upon others, and that the truth is of greater importance than any narrative. The only person setting back any women’s rights is Amber Heard. And now, by proxy, the media is helping her do it with their pretzel like, ass backwards, response to this trial and its outcome.
There is an even greater conversation unfolding amongst this chaos. The realization that legacy media has lost the plot time and time again and only serve those who serve them. The uprising of independent journalists, or as someone I greatly admire likes to put it, “internet journalists”, has proven to be a tremendous thorn in MSM’s side. They don’t know what to do about us and the attempts at discrediting have already begun. Unfortunately for them the public knows damn well who to trust now and isn’t The New York Times, Rolling Stone, or the God damn Washington Post. Its people like That Umbrella Guy, Laura B, That Brian Fella, Adam Waldman himself - directly, and hundreds, if not thousands, of others who took the time to dive into this fiasco and pull the truth to the surface.
The people at large are not sheep. They won’t stand for those who consider themselves elitists to tell them they are and they won’t accept being lied to. The conversation here is so much bigger than an unpleasant celebrity relationship and divorce. The entire process has woken up a number of sleeping giants. Men are now coming forward with their horrific stories of abuse at the hands of women. They need to be listened to and supported. The media has made a fucking joke of itself on a worldwide scale and they need to be held accountable. What Johnny Depp has done is open the eyes of the world to a number of deeply seeded societal issues. That door can’t and won’t be closed again.
I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect a woman adjudicated to be a lying, abusive, fraud.
Thank you so much for this. I needed it.
I find it particularly disturbing that media articles are prompting comments I have seen from friends uninterested in watching the trial, but interested now in voicing their views, which are along the lines of:
1. “It should never have been filmed.” (Imagine! Then we would ONLY have the press perspective & they could spin it however they wished!!!)
2. Whatever you think about the result it’s a loss for all women & all victims of abuse.
2 is truly disturbing to me! Amber is not “all women” & the implication that “all women” should be believed despite evidence & the verdict of a jury after a 6 week trial coming to the opposite conclusion beyond reasonable doubt is to say that in the circumstance all physical violence came from Amber towards Depp it doesn’t matter - Amber should be allowed to call Depp an abuser& a person who committed DV & SV & she should be heard for all time while Depp should do nothing about it. !!!?! Where is the logic? 🔍
People are quick to jump on the “whatever your perspective on the verdict, the loss is bad for women” train, but I say whatever your perspective it is important to remember that one person could have NO blame at all here (as a jury has ruled it, based on evidence - this person is Depp!) & there is no societal rule that should mean it is wrong for that person to receive justice & to then, very simply - be believed. Just like they’re suggesting victims should be!!!?!
Thank you. Yes. I want to scream this from the rooftops. Send this to every major editor. The coverage has been disappointing, disorienting, and insulting.