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> Then we come back to Johnny Depp, the accused wife-beater with a long and documented history of violence to his name.

The only accusations of violence ever came from Amber Heard, whom he sued for defamation and won. Anyone watching the trial, including the jurors, could see what a narcissistic liar she is. She's rightfully being ostracized from Hollywood now.

I prefer to remain blissfully ignorant of the Depp/Heard bs, but I count at least three separate accusers of violence here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Depp#Other_legal_issues

What I got from that trial is that they're both narcissistic liars with violent tendencies. Neither of them came out of that looking better than the other.

This article was not a good use of time. Instead of saying how to spin, it just attacked Depp and Majors.

I applied their advice: "It’s a crucial skill to know how to read the news as it’s presented to us, whether it’s CNN’s rightward swing or the British media’s achingly inescapable royal propaganda during the coronation. One should be able to dissect how a story is told, who is telling it, and what the intended endgame is." and stopped reading right at this paragraph.

Agreed. The author writes mostly about celebrity gossip, and this article is no different. I flagged it.

> Depp cultists are already cleaning up the Wikipedia page details, such as reports that Depp was a nightmare on set.

From what I can find, this is a single revert[1], and that seemed an appropriate revert as it was a single guy saying it on TV with no real substance to it ("I heard that ...").

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeanne_du_Barry_(...

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