Chapter 789 Temporary Victory
Compared with Nancheng News, which was founded in 1997, Doubletree was founded in the first half of 1998 by Chang Haonan who suggested Du Yishan to publicize the quality crisis of Japanese companies. Even after more than a year of hard work, he is still relatively young.
However, after all, it is positioned as an abstract journal. In other words, the content covers everything from national events, astronomy, geography, to neighborhood gossip, so the audience range is much wider than that of Nandu Daily, which only reports social news. , so the reader groups are not very different.
What's more, Chang Haonan also has China Youth Daily and the Central Media Station in this wave.
In this era when television is the main means of entertainment, the influence of the 7pm news is almost unmatched.
Therefore, in fact, from the moment Chang Haonan decided to launch a counterattack, the outcome was already doomed.
Yangcheng, in the office of Nancheng News Media Group.
Senior editor and reporter Meng Yong looked at a magazine in front of him with twitching eyelids.
"Double Tree".
Everything started nearly half a month ago.
An intern editor below said that he found a very breaking news that can expose the widespread corruption in academic circles in China.
He briefly checked the manuscript written by the other party and found that the target was a school-enterprise joint laboratory that had just been established less than half a year ago. It was likely that there was a problem of poor fund management.
Of course, they definitely don’t know whether it exists or not, sitting in an air-conditioned room thinking about it.
But that’s not important either.
As long as we can find a reason.
Fortunately, this laboratory has been included in the pilot project of industry-university-research cooperation, so the degree of freedom of research projects is greater than that of normal research institutions.
Moreover, the “enterprise” in the school-enterprise alliance happens to be a state-owned enterprise.
Very suitable as their target of attack.
State-owned enterprises and universities collude inside and outside to embezzle research funds, resulting in a large amount of national funds being consumed but no useful scientific research results being produced...
What a perfect topic.
As long as you add some short stories at the end about how strict management and economy are implemented by some foreign scientific research institutions, and how strict foreign scientists are in self-discipline and indifferent to fame and fortune, it will become an excellent report that "exposes the darkness of society and reflects on real problems."
In fact, even Nancheng Daily will at least check the content before publishing in most cases.
At least the flaws cannot be seen too quickly.
But this time the situation is a little different.
First of all, Meng Yong was in urgent need of a report on this topic.
The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the beginning of last month was very effective, especially the military parade, which greatly improved the self-confidence of the people.
There are even voices among the public that believe that sooner or later we can catch up with developed countries like Britain and the United States.
This kind of unrealistic idea is something Meng Yong doesn’t want to hear.
But directly attacking the National Day commemoration...
I dare not.
Therefore, he believes that there is a need to dig out some real news hidden under the surface of prosperity to calm people down.
Secondly, the Torch Group has some private disputes with Meng Yong——
About a year and a half ago, he who had just joined Nancheng News personally wrote an article titled " The editorial "It is not advisable to launch satellites under administrative pressure" made a wave of cynicism towards the newly established Department of Equipment Industry.
As a result, Torch Group entered into some kind of technical cooperation with an Italian company within a few days, and even sold machine tools produced in China to Europe, giving him a slap in the face.
If that's all, Meng Yong has long been used to similar things and doesn't care about being slapped in the face.
However, within a few days, he received an anonymous email.
It is a photo frame.
It contains his editorial and a report on the Torch-C.B. Ferrari Group's successful production of top-level machine tools.
This is a naked provocation.
Meng Yong smashed the photo frame on the spot and threw it out.
Just kidding, he is a symbol of the fourth estate of the media.
Even if there were some reports in the past that were later proven to be false, few people would know about it when the heat had long since passed.
Only he provokes others, and no one has ever dared to provoke him.
Therefore, he had been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on the opponent.
And this time is obviously a good opportunity.
In fact, from the perspective of hindsight, even if Meng Yong is careful, it will not be of much use.
Before Chang Haonan’s paper was published in a journal, even Tang Lintian didn’t know about such a thing.
Unless outsiders can directly contact Princeton Press, Richard Hamilton, or at least Tian Gang, it is impossible for outsiders to predict such a coincidence.
In short, Meng Yong only polished it a little and almost couldn't wait to approve the report for publication.
At the beginning, it really aroused a good response.
So much so that he rewarded the intern editor with a bonus of 500 yuan.
However, the good times did not last long.
Just over a week passed, and even before the topic caused by this report had completely cooled down, Torch Lab suddenly came up with a result.
Although Meng Yong knows nothing about mathematics, judging from the specifications reported by the central media, he seems to be quite powerful...
This is very embarrassing. If this incident turns around later in the evening and everyone forgets about their reports, that's fine.
But now that they are stuck at this point in time, they have turned into clowns in Nancheng.
Not to mention the subsequent unnamed criticism from China Youth Daily and the direct humiliation from DoubleTree Magazine.
That three-in-one picture is simply full of contrasts, and its lethality is comparable to that photo frame from back then.
And this time it is still public.
Several times, Meng Yong wanted to tear up the magazine in his hand...
At this moment, the phone in his office suddenly rang.
Meng Yong answered the call impatiently and growled into the receiver:
"What's the matter?"
As a result, a deep voice came from the other side of the phone;
"It's me."
Meng Yong immediately shrank his eggs:
"Ah...it turns out to be Chief Editor Feng, your order..."
The other party is obviously gone. Kung Fu cares about his attitude:
“Meng Yong, the superior authorities are very dissatisfied with your publication this time and require us to immediately issue a statement retracting the article and apologizing, and also come up with a proper solution. This It’s up to you.”
In fact, if the system has been mixed for a long time, you should be able to hear the implication of this sentence, which has already defined this matter.
And "proper resolution" does not refer to the matter, but to the specific responsible person.
But for a media of this nature, Nancheng News, only a few senior executives are on staff.
Meng Yong is obviously not among them.
Therefore, he thought that things could still turn around, so he spoke out the "remedial measures" that he had been thinking about for a long time:
"Chief Editor Feng, can you consider starting from the results of their publicity, such as questioning the value of that paper, or bringing some rhythm in the direction of academic continuity?"
Feng on the other side of the phone? The editor-in-chief laughed out loud at his unbridled thinking:
“Their paper was published in the Annual Journal of Mathematics, which is a top journal published by the Department of Mathematics of Princeton University in the United States. How can you question Jinghang? University and central media, do you still dare to question Princeton?"
Meng Yong suddenly fell silent.
Although he didn’t know what the level of Mathematics Annual was, he had heard of the name Princeton University.
One of the eight Ivy League schools in the United States.
For people like them, questioning America’s prestigious schools?
Don’t even think about it.
"Then..."
Seeing that Meng Yong still didn't understand, Chief Editor Feng was a little annoyed, and immediately issued an ultimatum:
"This matter is a big deal. I don't care what method you use. In short, you must identify the person responsible!"
After saying that, he hung up the phone with a bang.
This is very straightforward.
If we really want to clarify the person responsible, the first person to bear the brunt is him, the editor-in-chief of the page, and then the editor-in-chief above can't escape, and then up...
Then it will be endless.
Therefore, Meng Yong knew that he could only adopt another approach.
Fortunately, this report was not written by him.
So, just put the main responsibility on the intern editor.
Others can only blame it on poor supervision...
Thinking of this, Meng Yong finally put his heart at ease.
Then, he picked up the copy of "Double Tree", got up and walked towards the editor's office next door...
...
The results of the processing soon reached Chang Haonan's ears.
The Nancheng Newspaper will issue a retraction and apology statement in the next three days. The author who wrote the news has also been fired from the publishing house.
Of course, he could also guess that the person being dealt with was just a scapegoat.
The real manipulator behind the scenes cannot possibly fall because of such an incident.
After all, some countries have been cultivating rebels for more than ten or twenty years.
It is more than just a Nancheng newspaper.
At least, compared to previous similar incidents that ended with three drinks of fined wine, this time we can seize the opportunity of the opponent hitting the muzzle and minimize the Nancheng Newspaper’s reputation in the hearts of the melon-eaters. Word of mouth is already a good result.
Chang Haonan knows very well that the struggle against internal and external enemies is a long-lasting process.
It is impossible to accomplish all the results in one battle.
Besides, for him, there are already more important things to focus on -
The J-11B fighter equipped with a mass-produced turbofan 10A engine is about to make its first flight. .
(End of this chapter)