![]() Many of the ads have been promoted on the Facebook pages of prominent right-wing public figures, including Candace Owens.Īds include the paid promotion of an article headlined " The Attempted Character Assassination of Johnny Depp" which states, "The only negative words written about the Hollywood A-lister came from the occasional film critic. Vice reported they have spent between $35,000-$47,000 to do so, garnering about 4 million impressions. Since the Heard-Depp trial started, The Daily Wire has consistently been promoting Facebook and Instagram ads featuring false and misleading articles and discredited information about the case. In 2021, in a story headlined " Outrage As A Business Model: How Ben Shapiro Is Using Facebook To Build An Empire," NPR reported The Daily Wire "received more likes, shares and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher by a wide margin" in part by "turn anger into an art form" with repackaged, conservative-slanted pieces. RELATED: "Saturday Night Live" becomes part of the Heard-Depp media circus problem with its disturbing skitįounded in 2015 by political commentator Ben Shapiro and director Jeremy Boreing, The Daily Wire has grown to be currently the second most popular publisher on Facebook. Overwhelmingly, ads from The Daily Wire focus on discrediting Heard. Conservative outlet The Daily Wire has been throwing its hat into the ring in a major way.Īs Vice reported, The Daily Wire has spent thousands of dollars to promote misleading social media ads about the case. Competition is healthy in all things, especially art.As the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial continues in Virginia's Fairfax County Circuit Court, social media persists in trying the divorced couple in the court of public opinion. I feel pretty sure that is what will happen to some extent, but I’m holding out hope that it won’t. What I hope doesn’t happen is that actors and artists involved in these films are chased and harassed online so that it damages their careers to get work. This has probably always been true, it’s just that what defines what life should be like has become much more insular. If the film community can barely handle Hillbilly Elegy, which removed politics entirely but was still somehow about politics to film critics, you can imagine how they might handle this.ĭaily Wire is getting into the production, development and distribution game, which means a broader offerings overall for people who don’t necessarily always want to be sold a singular view of what life should be like, which is where so much of films – especially those in the Oscar race - find themselves. ![]() I guess because it appears to back up the conservative idea about mass shootings – that we should fight back rather than ban assault weapons. Art must push and poke and prod at humanity, otherwise what is the point? Then you are really just attending a kind of fundamentalist revival that always confirms for you what you already believe.Įither which way, Deadline reports that the first trailer has dropped for Run Hide Fight – and honestly, this is the kind of movie I could find on streaming and would immediately watch but also one that probably is “verboten” to discuss online. ![]() But unfortunately the best art can’t do that and remain provocative. ![]() We all know there are movies that don’t get picked up by Hollywood distributors because they are deemed “problematic.” We know that films that glorify our utopian vision for our lives tend to do better in this climate. I already wrote about the Daily Wire a while back but now they’ve made good on their promise to start distributing actual movies. The Oscars, and movies in general that are not of the blockbuster kind, all speaks to a very singular mindset – it’s the most vocal mindset online, perhaps, but one that doesn’t represent anything like vast factions in this country. ![]() Entertainment on the left, it seems to me, has bottlenecked in that it has become so tightly controlled and policed for hints of anything that might offend any marginalized group. In the natural world this is usually the beginning of the end for that species as it’s much easier larger groups with the same genetic makeup are more vulnerable to extinction than those with genetic diversity. I have been writing lately of what they call in evolutionary terms a “ bottleneck.” That is when a species finds itself in a place where it can no longer adapt or diversify. ![]()
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