In the era when traditional media is prevalent, if some irresponsible newspapers, magazines, and television stations are exposed to scandals such as rumors and fake news, they usually just issue a statement and introduce a "scapegoat", leaving aside their own relationships, and they can perfunctory the past.

The victimized parties have no way to fight at all, and even well-known directors and actors are vulnerable groups in front of the media.

The reason is very simple, because in that era, the right to speak was in the hands of the media, and the major media were all in a circle, and unless the country came forward, peers would cover each other.

As long as there are no media reports, such things as "fake news" and "rumor-mongering" will soon pass, and the average viewer will remember what happened months or even years ago.

Of course, it is not that no one has resisted, many directors and actors have sued the media for defamation and rumors.

However, in the Chinese law, the protection of reputational and moral damage is very weak, and the punishment is basically the same with or without.

If you sue the media for slander or defamation, even if the media loses the court decision, the most you can do is pay a small amount of money.

The process of legal proceedings takes a lot of time, and if you sue the media, they will drag you for a year and a half, so that you will delay a lot of time, and in the end you can only get a negligible compensation.

In the long run, who will dare to confront the media.

That's why for a long time, journalists and the media were called the "uncrowned kings."

Unfortunately, everything has changed after the advent of the Internet era.

Especially in China, a country with a huge population, the status of traditional media has been greatly challenged when self-media platforms such as web portals, video websites, forums, blogs, and microblogs have appeared on the Internet.

Everyone has their own channels to speak out, and celebrities who used to rely only on media publicity now have a way to communicate directly with fans and the public.

"Nanfang Daily" even wants to use the old-fashioned way in the past to fool netizens and audiences. In Peng Yichen's view, it is really a model of his own death.

As a result, dozens of celebrities on the Internet, under the contact of Peng Yichen, forwarded the so-called "statement" of "Nanfang Daily" on their respective Weibo, and everyone added a sentence below: "Rumors and slander can be let go so easily, and the cultural department of Guangdong is really powerful!"

Less than 2 hours later, the number of retweets of this sentence on Weibo reached more than 20 million times, and the first position on the thousand-degree hot search list was also firmly occupied by the "statement" of "Nanfang Daily".

If that's all there is, maybe the leaders of Nanfang Daily won't care, after all, in their opinion, the noise on Weibo is nothing more than a group of "actors" and "fart people". They are the "big masters" of the media who control public opinion.

But what this group of leaders who are about to be eliminated by the times did not expect was that what followed was the criticism and condemnation of them by netizens all over the Internet.

In a boys' dormitory of Wuhan University's law major, a group of boys are holding their mobile phones and constantly refreshing Weibo.

While forwarding this Weibo to their friends, they kept @ the official Weibo of the cultural department, and shouted angrily: "Hair, then post~ I don't believe that this bastard newspaper can cover the sky with one hand." ”

They are all loyal fans who have become Peng Yichen's fans since "Twelve Angry Men".

Such scenes also happened in all provinces and regions of China, on the bus, in the office, in the classroom, everywhere Peng Yichen's fans were helping him denounce "Nanfang Daily", plus the fans of those celebrity friends who forwarded Weibo, it constituted the largest public opinion incident in the history of Huaxia Internet.

In just half a day, Peng Yichen's Weibo has been forwarded more than 300 million times, and more than 2 million complaints and messages have been received from netizens around the country on the official Weibo of the relevant department that manages Nanfang Daily.

In the afternoon, the relevant departments could no longer sit and wait, and directly called the "Nanfang Daily" and asked them to deal with the online public opinion incident as soon as possible.

In the evening of the same day, netizens on the Internet were still denouncing the "Nanfang Daily", and after the leaders of the relevant departments held a meeting overnight to study, the next day the investigation team formed by the Department of Culture directly settled in the "Nanfang Daily" and publicly announced to the public through the official Weibo:

Immediately investigate the recent malicious slander and rumor-mongering of Nanfang Daily. At the same time, Nanfang Daily was suspended for an indefinite period of time for rectification.

For a while, countless netizens celebrated, and Chinese filmmakers also saw the power of online public opinion for the first time.

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At this moment, the leaders of Nanfang Daily felt the seriousness of the situation and were so frightened that they hurriedly re-published a formal letter of apology.

"Due to the false reports of our staff, it has caused great reputational damage to Mr. Peng Yichen and the entire crew of "Journey to the West", caused a great adverse impact on the society, and caused Mr. Peng Yichen's body and mind to suffer a major blow, and we are deeply guilty.

The leadership team of our newspaper hereby sincerely expresses its deepest apologies to Mr. Peng Yichen and "Journey to the West".

I hope to obtain Mr. Peng Yichen's understanding. We promise to strictly abide by the regulations of the journalism industry in the future, and to be cautious in our words and actions......

Our newspaper decided to fire the editor-in-chief Zhao, compensate Mr. Peng Yichen with 150,000 yuan, and organize all employees to go to the cinema to watch "Journey to the West". ”

It's a pity that Peng Yichen didn't want such a simple apology, he knew that there must be someone behind "Nanfang Daily".

Therefore, while reposting the apology letter of "Nanfang Daily" on Weibo, he wrote again on Weibo: "Nanfang Daily and I, 'no grievances in the past, no enmity in recent days', why would they smear our film so much at the critical moment when "Journey to the West" was released, and even did not hesitate to gather people from the 'Chinese People's Faith Association' to attack us together. What's in it for them?"

When netizens saw this Weibo, they all reacted.

That's right, "Nanfang Daily" is just a newspaper media, and it is not a peer with Peng Yichen, and there is no movie released at the same time as "Journey to the West".

Why did they work so hard to deal with Peng Yichen!

Don't be too happy, you must take advantage of the victory to chase and find out the real mastermind.

Under Peng Yichen's intentional guidance, Huaxia netizens once again mobilized all their strength.

Although this time this "behind the scenes" is obviously hidden deeper.

But the next morning, when the investigation team entered the "Southern Daily", netizens finally found clues.

It turned out that there was really a bigger black hand behind the "Southern Daily" directing their operation.

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