The Public Loathing of Amber Heard

Amber Heard & Johnny Depp, Fairfax Circuit County Courthouse May 16, 2022 Source: Reuters

Over the past month the American masses have been drawn like flies to the contentious defamation trial between Hollywood actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Beamed in to living rooms every weekday and cut-and-pasted into innumerable (and often snarkily edited) video clips that achieved instant virality, the trial became a curiously massive sensation. Netflix binges were sidelined across the country in favor of tuning in to the…