.jessphillips has underlined the big problem with the tabloids’ coverage of the Johnny Depp libel trial. JohnnyDepp AmberHeard
And, as the trial enters its third week, we’ve no doubt the conversation will continue in this manner. After all, this is the week that Heard will be quizzed by Depp’s barrister, David Sherborne, over 14 allegations of domestic violence that’s publisher, News Group Newspapers , relies heavily upon in its defence of an April 2018 article that branded Depp a “wife beater”.MP has noted in a powerful essay, Heard is not on trial here: NGN is.
“We are invited to hear claims about how much she drank, what a difficult personality she had, how she used to start arguments, as if any of this is relevant to the question of whether Depp ever abused her,” the MP continues. “It isn’t.” Phillips finishes her essay by noting: “Whatever the conclusion and whatever the truth in the case of Johnny Depp vs, none of us will ever truly know what happened. What I don’t want to happen is that the reporting on this case sends a message to victims of abuse in this country that no one will believe them unless they are a squeaky clean, Shirley Temple type and their perpetrator is a raging monster hated by all.
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