Chapter 84: The Story of the Reporter and the Child
"Dad, then can you take a look at the daily sales of our metropolis news newspaper first, and then say something like this?" Lin Kaijun slapped the table and stood up, facing his father's old and rigid views, and launched a head-on conflict.
"What era is it now? The era of the Internet! It will not work if we still follow the old path you used to do news, and readers will not leave any impression on news that is neither humble nor arrogant, nor salty nor light, let alone pay for it!"
"Yo, old woman, look at the son you raised, he has a lot of skills, and now he dares to slap the table with me and stare at him. The father's face was still calm and light, and he was not disturbed by his son in the slightest.
"What do you mean by my adopted son, isn't this your son?" The gray-haired mother picked up a few empty plates on the table and wiped the bits and pieces of oil on the table. She walked to the kitchen, and said slowly: "Kaijun, you must pay attention to the way you talk to your father, you can't be so big and small, you know?"
Lin Kaijun sat down, lowered the decibel and said to his father: "Dad, it's really not okay for us to still hold on to that set of old theories and not throw them away, and now readers like such explosive, bloody and controversial news, which is the trend of the market and the whole environment. ”
"Kaijun, let me tell you a story. Father pulled another cigarette out of his cigarette case and let the light cigarette wrap around his forehead.
It was a winter, and the weather was very cold. The north wind whistled and blew without sleep for three days and three nights.
On the fourth day, the wind stopped, and the whole city turned into a silver world, and even the big river, which our Jiangzhou City had never frozen, was frozen into a large lump of ice.
The wide and smooth surface of the river, like a piece of flawless jade, attracts everyone's attention. I don't know which daring child was the first to step on this smooth ice. The crowd was boiling, and the people who came one after another stepped on this never-before-seen feeling of walking on the river.
However, people's happiness did not last long, in fact, the crisis has been secretly lurking in the shadows. This seemingly frozen river surface is only a layer on the surface. Closer to the shore, the ice is about five or six centimeters thick enough to bear the weight of people. But the further you go to the center of the river, the thinner the ice becomes.
Danger is not long in coming!
The three children who were fighting and making trouble while running to the center of the river suddenly heard a clear "click", which was an early warning signal from the ice breaking!
But how could those three ignorant children understand this, they are still jumping and jumping happily. One of the children suddenly stumbled under his feet, and a big hole suddenly cracked on the ice under his feet, only to see that the child's whole body suddenly became short, and instantly disappeared into the bone-chilling river water under the ice!
The other two children were frightened to death by the scene in front of them, and when they came back to their senses, they did not even dare to cry, and immediately pulled their legs and ran to the shore. How could the shattered ice easily let these two innocent children go. Their running caused the ice to resonate, and before they had even taken a few steps, the ice beneath their feet made a "click" sound again.
The two children were so frightened that they ran and cried, and their cries attracted a reporter who was taking pictures of the noisy and joyous crowd on the frozen river.
The reporter didn't know why the two children were crying, so he picked up the camera and pointed it at the two children. At the moment when he pressed the shutter, the two children were short and empty, and they fell into the icy river at the same time!
The reporter hurriedly rushed over, and finally grabbed the two children by the collar one by one before the river swallowed the children.
Although the children were caught, the ice did not let them go, and the ice under the reporter's feet suddenly "clicked".
The reporter used all his strength in his life and shouted: "Help!" As soon as the words fell, the ice shattered, and the reporter who saved people also fell into the cold and bone-chilling river!
Beneath the ice was the surging river, and the reporter who fell into the water choked on two mouthfuls of water in succession, but he did not let go of his grip on the two children's hands.
The icy river water touched his skin through the layers of clothing, and the river water in this cold winter wax moon was like a needle prick. Within a few seconds, his body was shaking involuntarily.
His two legs kept kicking hard, but the weight of the three people and the clothes soaked by the river still made him sink continuously.
At that time, he clearly knew in his mind that if he didn't let go of one hand to paddle, it was likely that all three of them would drown in this cold and merciless river!
Faced with this cruel and cold truth, he had to make a rational but cruel decision in an instant......
Finally, before his limbs became numb, he was lucky enough to grab a solid piece of ice.
Fortunately, the reporter's cry for help was heard by the nearby crowd, and the kind people quickly rescued him and the lucky child. Unfortunately, the bodies of the other two children were not found.
Soon after, the overwhelming reports and propaganda came out, and the reporter who saved people with good intentions was written as a great hero who was brave and fearless, and all kinds of honors and commendations came one after another. But only he knew best in his heart what he had given up at that time......
The story came to an abrupt end here, and the cigarette in his father's hand was burned to the end, and he held the cigarette butt with the old cigarette ash, thoughtfully intoxicated by the bizarre story, and couldn't extricate himself for a long time.
Lin Kaijun asked blankly: "Dad, does the story you are talking about have anything to do with the matter we are talking about now?"
"Silly boy, can't you hear this? We should not look at only one aspect of everything and infer a reason for granted, but this is especially true when we eat the food of journalists!" the father snuffed out the cigarette butt and continued:
"You didn't investigate and collect evidence, and second, you have no factual basis, just relying on an old lady who was terminally ill and jumped off the building to commit suicide, it is too rash to hastily deduce that it was caused by the hospital's high-priced medical treatment. If I put all of these reports on the front page for you, wouldn't our urban news newspaper become a commodity all the way to the tabloids that are messy on the street and make up headlines?"
Lin Kaijun's bull temper that refused to admit defeat was committed again, he stood up and walked out, and said as he walked: "Okay, then I'll conduct an in-depth investigation into this old lady's story to see what is behind it!"