Chapter 10: The Mysterious Press Release
"It's all true, but how do you know so much about these situations?" Fat Dong's narration fascinated Luo Fangyi.
I really didn't expect that I, a native of Hedong, would know nothing about these things.
"Hehe, it's all told to me by some friends in the society. Let me tell you, I have a lot of friends. Down-to-earth weather on top. Fat Dong looked proud.
There is indeed such a group of people in society, who are not good-looking, and they have no power or power. However, they can do what others can't do, and they can get the news that others can't get.
Society has its rules of survival, and everyone has their own survival skills......
Let's go back to the Luohe Village incident. The media's sense of smell is sensitive, not to mention that this is an era of mobile Internet.
All it takes is a cigarette for jokers and internet experts, and the world will see what's happening through their smartphones.
In just one morning, the news of the arson case in Luohe Village began to ferment on the Internet.
Initially, the case spread through mobile phones, and several onlookers at the scene posted pictures to the circle of friends, accompanied by a few descriptions that added fuel and vinegar, which quickly attracted a large number of forwards and comments. Immediately afterwards, some community forums combined with the land acquisition project in Luohe Village, cobbled together a few sentences of description and expanded the description into a thousand-word long article, and many netizens commented and broke the news in the comment area.
Near noon, this long article was packaged by the editors of major websites and became a piece of news and made the headlines on the front page.
Luohe Village suddenly became the focus of the whole country, and there was a great posture of mountain rain coming.
Unfortunately, it happened to be a Monday. Media people understand that from the perspective of the law of news dissemination in the Internet era, it usually takes three or four days for a piece of news to go from fermentation to hot spot and then to silence. If it happens on the weekend, people's attention will be significantly lower, and its transmission cycle will be shorter.
But the breaking news that came out on Monday was hard to manage.
While Xiang Bei and Luo Fangyi were busy interviewing, the Beijiang Evening News was also busy.
As soon as he got to work on Monday morning, Executive Deputy Editor-in-Chief Yu Chongming urgently convened Chen Lu and Qu Changguo, two deputy editors-in-chief, for a meeting.
"You have all seen that the matter of Luohe Village has exploded on the Internet. Yu Chongming went straight to the point and went straight to the point.
"yes, I've been following its progress from the early hours of the morning until now. I turned on my phone this morning and the news was all about it. Qu Changguo yawned, looking tired, "Fortunately, we sent reporters over overnight, and we hope to grab the first landing point of this report." ”
"I'm worried about two things right now, first, whether we can get ahead of other media outlets to make the first report, and second, the incident is expected to ferment in the next few days, and if the impact is too great, it is not suitable to continue to report. ”
For Yu Chongming, these two worries also reveal his dilemma: if the report is not in place, it must be a dereliction of duty; on the other hand, the Beijiang Evening News is after all a local media in Hedong City, and it has a certain influence in the whole country, and every report must be cautious and must take into account the local image.
It is indeed not easy to grasp the proportions.
"It's okay not to let it be reported, and we have less pressure. Chen Lu said with a smile. As the only female deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Chen Lu's femininity is also very obvious, and she treats people and things with softness, softness but not weakness, "Anyway, listen to the leader." ”
Qu Changguo took a sip of tea, his expression showing disdain: "You can't say that, after all, we also have media responsibilities." In any case, it happened in our realm, and if we don't speak up, we can't say anything about it. I urged him to send back a report today. ”
Yu Chongming was noncommittal, he was still a little worried about this report, so he had to think carefully to avoid any mistakes: "Judging from the current situation, this should be a campaign report, and the cycle is relatively long. You get the mind ready to go north. In addition, we will draw a few more people from the reporters to do cooperative reporting in the rear. I will coordinate the overall reporting of this time, Changguo is responsible for the reporting work at the front, and Chen Lu is responsible for the cooperative reporting at the rear. ”
Chen Lu and Qu Changguo both nodded in agreement.
At the end of the meeting, it was already early afternoon, Qu Changguo returned to his office, closed the door, and sat down in a chair. He touched the mouse with his hand, and the computer monitor in the screensaver state lit up.
What appears on the screen is an open document. Qu Changguo stared at the screen, pondering, the cursor at the end of the document kept flashing.
This is a red-headed document within the relevant departments of Hedong City. The title is "Report on the Arson Case of Luohe Village, Hedong City (Draft)", and the content is very short, with only 100 crosses:
At 2:45 a.m. on November 23, a tent fire broke out in Luohe Village, Xincheng Street, Hedong City, killing three villagers and injuring four others. The investigation by the public security organs determined that it was a man-made arson case. After the case occurred, leaders at all levels attached great importance to it, and the local public security organs quickly mobilized capable forces to carry out investigation work. It is now preliminarily ascertained that Zhang, Li and other 5 people are suspected of major arson. The case is under further proceedings.
Qu Changguo understands that this is not the final press release sent to the media, but the public version will not be much different from it. Although the material is brief, with the sensitivity of many years of writing work, he still deduces some important information from it: first, the case was arson, and second, the arson caused three deaths and four injuries.
Combining all of this information, combined with background information such as the contradictions in land acquisition, he was able to estimate the power of the "earthquake" caused by this event.
Qu Changguo copied and pasted the material back into the new document, modified the font and font size, took a picture with his mobile phone, and sent it to WeChat to the north.
A minute later, the WeChat notification sounded. "Leader, this is ......"
"An internal information, for reference only, remember to keep it confidential! ”
After replying to the message, Qu Changguo thought for a moment and added, "Brother, I sent a military order with the leader, please, combined with the previous interview, I must send back a manuscript today." ”
After sending it, Qu Changguo let out a sigh of relief, whether this "atomic bomb" can be detonated or not depends on today's manuscript. To the north, I hope you can give along!
This tense atmosphere is not just in the Bac Giang Evening News. Towards the end of the evening, the Xincheng Hotel, the nearest four-star hotel to Luohe Village, suddenly had forty or fifty more guests, all of whom were all kinds of media inside and outside the province, TV stations, newspapers, news websites, and even several mobile phone live broadcast platforms and self-media.
In this unknown village, a media war is about to begin......