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Trial By Social Media: Trying (And Failing) To Scroll Past Depp v. Heard
Published Jun 7, 2022
Updated Jun 7, 2022
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Published Jun 7, 2022
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Trial By Social Media: Trying (And Failing) To Scroll Past Depp v. Heard
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There are no cameras in France’s courtrooms. The general public sees no photos of defendants, no video clips of witnesses. The only available visual representation of what goes down behind French tribunal doors comes from the talented roster of sketch artists who would make Renoir proud.
Such a 19th-century way of doing things, chiefly on privacy grounds and to avoid distractions, seems diametrically opposed to the frenzied, overabundant, free-for-all coverage of the recent Depp v. Heard defamation trial, and helps explain the deep cultural rift I felt during the six weeks of what is already qualified under the “Trial of the century” entry on Wikipedia. Indeed, between instant images, video clips, Reels, GIFs, etc., etc. — anyone with a social media account would have been hard-pressed
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