about prime time speech, commentators going at it and less than two weeks after the texas massacre, a gunman with a grudge against his surgeon killed 4 people in a tulsa medical building before taking his own life. former cmn anchor says she was this florida the day after the parkland, florida, when produce s s broke producers brushed off her pleas for air time, and the following day told her to return to new york. as for texas, baldwin predicts the audience starts to drop off. no ratings, less coverage. it s as simple as that. i think it s a little more complicated. it s not just about revenue. people have followed the texas tragedy intensely are, but there comes a point where compassion fatigue sets in. maybe people move on and the media move on because the past has convinced them that that nothing will change. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, piers morgan on softening his approach to talking about the guns and coverage of of the biden presid
howard: ahead, piers morgan on softening his approach to talking about the guns and coverage of of the biden presidency. and why johnny depp s legal victory over amber heard has become such a media obsession. if joe biden had one core message in his speech, it was enough. it was, do anything. do something. and the public s sharply disagreed on what that something should be or whether it has a snowball s chance of passing. after columbine, after sandy hook, after charleston, after orlando, after las vegas, after parkland nothing has been done. this time that can t be true. this time we must actually do something. this isn t about taking away anyone s rights. it s the about protecting children. it s about protecting families. the president says he s had enough, you ve had enough, i ve had enough, we ve all had
thank you for having me. howard: what explains the fact that amber heard got utterly vis rated in the pr war according to virtually every media account and some women i ve talked to before getting clobbered by the verdict? why all the anti-amber hate? yeah. well, first of all, this trial was really icky, and it got a lot of attention for a number of reasons. one, because the details were so shocking, the fact that there were cameras in the courtroom, johnny depp is one of the biggest celebrities in the world at a time, still has incredible star power. but i also think that there was a deeper reason as to why so many people were fascinated about this trial, and that has to do with the metoo movement. and some people have said that this trial, because she was found guilty, marks the end of the metoo movement. i don t think it does, but i think people codo do have a more nuanced. when it comes to why she was
they should all be held to ferocious account, and right now president biden is coming up very short both on the domestic and foreign stage. howard: covering the verdict against amber heard, do you have any quick thoughts on her not just losing the the suit, but why she s been so vilified by the media? well, i think we re in a new age, aren t we? whether it s covering war in ukraine or covering things like the depp/heard case where every spit and cough is thrown out on social media and dissect by the court of public opinion in realtime. you know, there are lots of issues about this case which i just found unsettling. one is that the saturation of television coverage. i don t think that should be admissible in a a domestic violence case. i think it turns it into what i think monica lewinsky described as court porn this week, and i think she had a point. secondly, the way that the people involved in the case were kind of ripped to pieces, particularly amber heard on
and have any other odds i influences. but outside influences. this could also set back women because we were in a phase when she wrote this article where we were believing all women without vetting claims. johnny if depp, no angel in this trial howard: well, on that point, you used the word icky, understatement of the year [laughter] yeah. howard: if amber heard hadn t written that the op-ed four years ago saying she was the victim of domestic abuse, can t name depp, both of them wouldn t have been dragged through this unbelievably ugly spectacle that the i think made both of them look awful. yeah. and it turns out that the aclu was actually behind this article. she can t even read it. there have been a lot of lawyers, howie, who have said that johnny depp could essentially sue the washington post because they have the responsibility to vet claims. you can t just publish anything. as a matter of fact, the washington post, an editor wrote