Should Johnny Depp or his fans care what mainstream media says about him?

Amber Heard is doing one thing right. She truly is. It is not really MORALLY right nor wrong, but it is certainly strategically right. IF Johnny Depp should learn anything from Amber, it would be her blatant disregard to what is being said about her in SOCIAL media and apply that same disregard to what is being said about him in the mainstream media. He should perhaps trust his everyday fans and publishers to do his promotion, and ignore the likes of Sun completely.

Sounds risky, but here’s the thing.

Who reads that stuff ANYWAY?!

Let’s think for a bit about what kind of people read gossip magazines and sensationalist mainstream media. These are not smart people we’re looking at. These are not people ANY intelligent person wants to be lining up the red carpet screaming your name, are they? The people who still read mainstream media without a HUGE grain of salt, cannot truly call themselves intelligent by anyone’s standard. So do we CARE what those papers write? Should we?

People who still believe Amber Heard’s tale must also believe the Earth is certainly flat and dinosaurs never existed but Santa is real (well. Santa is real, every child and every Finn knows that bit… 😉 But you understand)

Believing Amber Heard is akin to believing NASA’s satellite photos are an elaborate hoax trying to prove God doesn’t exist. Sure, you can believe anything you want to believe, that bruises vanish overnight, that makeup artists perform miracles with a little cucumber (they should probably be sent to war zones with that kind of healing powers) and that plastic surgery has come such a long way that the deep lacerations Amber Heard claimed to have sustained can be healed without any trace of them ever having been there. I mean, the way she described it, there should be skin crafts needed to stop her from bleeding to death and stopping her skin from dying and rotting while still ON her.

NO medical records to show.

NO MEDICAL RECORDS TO SHOW. One nurse reported having seen her with some blood on her lip but didn’t say if it could have been dry lips due to dehydration that caused the split as she reported no SWELLING to the lip. No remarks or audio footage of bits of her skin being hunted from the scene at the same time as they hunted down Johnny Depp’s fingertip… Or anyone tending to her bleeding wounds. Judge Nicol of UK doesn’t seem to think this is a problem.

Believing her is the kind of stupidity or ignorance that hasn’t been seen for quite some time. I don’t even think SHE thought those lies would be believed. I think she told a mild lie to begin with “he threw an iPhone at me) expecting people to maybe believe that a calm and gentleman like Johnny MIGHT be provoked to a violent act in the heat of the moment, then when people thought that’s just too mild to get even upset about, upped the anty day to day until she realized there’s no limit to what she can say and for the mainstream media to print it without much scrutiny. Maybe she told her most obviously and blatantly exaggerated lies just for a reaction, or to underline the fact THIS SHIT DOESN’T EVEN MAKE SENSE, ASSHOLES.

Should Johnny Depp be concerned about making people like this believe him?

I mean…

You know that law that stops restauranters from refusing service from black people or gay people or the like? I say let them put a poster up on their window and flag themselves out of business. I say the same about Amber Heard supporters. If you’re THAT STUPID, you should probably be forced to wear an Amber Heard T-shirt just so we could all avoid the heck out of those people and never associate with stupidity that is drinking battery acid with my pizza -level stupid. Darwin Awards -level stupidity. I mean, people can be removed from the gene pool in various ways. Death by stupid is not the only answer. Requiring a Justice for Johnny Depp -passport to enter a dating venue is another… Effective method. (Joking, of course, but you catch my drift. Why associate with (or fuck) an Amberstan?)

Don’t make them shut up, make them flag themselves out with a loud banner that says “I believe Amber Heard” and the smart ones will simply see it as a sign of an unforgivable level of stupidity nothing more.

Smart enough people reading only the headlines are a true problem

The trouble are people who don’t really care one way or the other, who glance at the headlines and believe it’s somewhere in the ballpark of true and that it has something to do with the body text. The headlines are not required to be true. The BODY TEXT is what is supposed to be “effectively true”¹. Yet, many people don’t ever read beyond the headlines because they don’t want to be ‘click baited’… And that is a problem. They still read the headline, and now that’s lodged in there, and to avoid being ‘click baited’ they now don’t know the full story.

Johnny Depp should get some headlines trend that would be cleverly crafted to illustrate that point. Among other things.

I want to do Johnny Depp’s PR.

Just saying. Whoever is doing it now is dropping the ball left, right, and center. I’m in no way a PR pro, but damned I’d do a much better job at it than his current team is doing. They probably started from the damned mailroom.

Photo by Andy Templeton

1. I don’t think Judge Nicole even considered it his duty to assess whether Heard lied or not, but whether Sun reported her words somewhat accurately. He should have made it clear in his ruling that he didn’t see it right to punish Sun for Heard’s lies, but he did not. ↩

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