14 DAY TRIAL // For weeks, the media scandal involving Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore and some blonde he reportedly picked up at a bar and slept with has been raging on. It's just now that Ashton is addressing it – without as much as saying a word about it.
Kutcher posted a vlog (video blog) online, in which he speaks about putting literature in print and how hard it once was to do that.
The full video is below, embedded at the end of the article.
Today, thanks to social media and technological advances, he continues, the costs of printing literature have been annulled almost completely, which, in turns, means that everyone can do it.
Not even once does Ashton mention the ongoing media scandal to say that the media is printing lies about him and the state of his 6-year marriage to Demi, but this is the message that he's clearly sending, voices online are saying.
“I started thinking about that in relation to social media and media today,” Ashton says, looking straight into the camera.
“The threshold to have literature printed and distributed – the cost structure went down to zero dollars,” he continues.
“Thereby, there is no gatekeeper of the truth. We are our own editors, and our own publishers. We are our own printers. Therefore people can bastardize the truth in any way, shape or truth they want,” Ashton says.
To prevent this from happening, we need to start being more responsible about the things we say and, just as important, we believe.
“We really have to take it upon ourselves to instill a level of honesty in our works and the media we create and we share with each other,” Ashton says.
“And be certain we are doing our own diligence to ensure what we're saying is for the benefit of another... using our full capacity to share the truth,” he adds.
Check out his message below.
