Wake up, breakfast, work, lunch, nap, work, dinner.

This was Doug's daily routine for the time since he spoke with Lincoln.

He spends most of his day doing his work. The content of the office is not to develop new business, but to improve the existing business.

For example, the American Press Group, although at the beginning of its establishment, there was no independent demand for profit for each small newspaper.

Now, however, Doug has put the need for profit on the head of every newspaper.

To make money, not to lose money, this is the dead line set by Doug.

He doesn't really care how much wealth these newspapers can create for him, but he wants to put enough pressure on the operators of these newspapers to make their newspapers have more interesting content under such pressure.

If all newspapers, it is the same content.

So what reason does the American newspaper group have to continue to maintain so many newspapers?

Newspapers can be distributed in a relatively small area, but they must be distinctive enough to attract people from the place where they are distributed.

If every newspaper follows this code, then the diversity of newspapers will become richer.

However, if you directly ask for each small packet of paper, it has its own uniqueness, and they don't know how to do it.

Maybe you have to wait for someone else's action, for the sake of being different.

In order to avoid this possible problem, Doug directly took whether it was profitable or not as the assessment goal.

The main thing is that if you can't meet the requirements for profit, you can leave.

It seems that Doug's profit requirement seems a bit excessive. But is it really excessive?

People in different positions may have different opinions. At least Doug himself didn't feel excessive about his decision-making at all.

Not because he's more reasonable, but because he's richer.

As for Blair, the nominal boss of the American newspaper group, he is also supportive of Doug's approach.

Of course, he didn't support what Doug did, but he also felt that he needed to increase his control over the tabloid company below.

The establishment of the American Press Group is actually one capital acquisition after another.

And he Blair himself, before these acquisitions, had only been the editor-in-chief of the New Haven Daily for many years, and then organized the New Haven Times.

It's not a very weak qualification, but it's not very convincing.

So, for other newspapers that were acquired.

You, the person in charge, at most rate us, so why should you lead us?

Therefore, although the group's request, it is likely to be carried out.

However, Blair's feelings in this process will definitely not be comfortable.

In fact, it is extremely uncomfortable.

People who are engaged in news reporting, no matter how much ability they have, always have enough ideas.

Blair's desire to complete the tasks Doug had given him and to coordinate these people was a difficult task for him to do.

Of course, at the same time, he did feel a sense of power far beyond the others.

In the process, he can feel a certain degree of comfort.

However, cool is cool, but the resistance is still greater than the coolness.

Therefore, Doug's direct intervention that seems to have some distrust of his ability, he is not disgusted but supportive, which can already explain his attitude.

Of course, when Doug carried out various actions, he did not stand aside and wave his flag and shout, but acted as Doug's front soldier, supervising and implementing Doug's instructions one after another.

At this time, Blair's understanding of Doug's abilities became clearer.

Being a leader may be rewarding, but being a leader is not easy.

When the leader needs to do two things, one is to break down the things that need to be done into small links that can be executed, and the other is to hand over these small links to people who can do these things.

The former requires familiarity with the business and personal ability, while the latter looks at the management ability of subordinates.

Some people may be very organized when they do things on their own.

However, they do not assign work, even if they are able to lead, they cannot lead their subordinates.

Blair's biggest shock to Doug is not that he is very good at both.

Not only can it break down tasks, but it can also make those subordinates who are not very obedient obey them.

It's his age.

Doug is only fifteen years old now, and it is amazing that he can do this.

Although Doug has advertised to the public that he is twenty years old and just looks younger, as Doug's close person, he still has his own judgment about Doug's age.

It is unlikely that an adult Caucasian man who is already twenty years old will be as young as Doug.

As for why Doug would rectify the American newspaper group at such a point in time.

First of all, because before that, he didn't have time.

First the newspaper group was used to launch an attack on the Bank of New Haven, then it was used to launder the Bank of America, and then the battle with DuPont.

Until recently, the American newspaper group did not have such a big task.

Of course, it's not for nothing.

Supporting the election of Abraham Lincoln is also one of them.

But it's still early before the real election, and it's not necessarily a good thing to make the audience tired by premature publicity.

Of course, voters vote based on their familiarity.

However, if done too annoyingly. Maybe the voters can vote for anyone except those advertised in the newspapers.

Compared with the quick battle between the Bank of New Haven and DuPont, the presidential election is a marathon battle that requires more physical strength.

In such a situation, in order to be able to better carry out this propaganda run.

It is normal for Doug to use the gap to beat up the subordinate media of the American newspaper group.

Of course, at the same time, it is necessary to make a profit.

For some disobedient people, Doug will also use some small methods to drive them out of their current position.

These methods are not above board.

Doug simply showed them the evidence that they had taken bribes when they reported to DuPont and Eagle Bank.

Let them make their own decisions.

Whether to admit it or see you in court.

The vast majority of people admit it.

Even if they think that what they are doing is what everyone would do in their position.

This is not because they fear the court, but because they have a deep distrust of it.

Just like everything else in the United States, the judges in the courts will be more inclined to serve the big capitalists.

It's not that the American courts have gone bad, it's a tradition of the American courts.

Whether it's a lawyer system, or a jury system.

For ordinary people, it may be fair enough, at least impartial, but for those who have more capital, it is not at all.

For them, lawyers can hire the best team of lawyers, for judges they can choose within a certain range, and as for the jury, it is more convenient to operate the people they want to invite.

Many times, the verdict in court doesn't matter.

The real competition takes place outside the courtroom.

Therefore, a reversal like child's play is very difficult to happen in the courts of the United States.

Most of the time, it's a naked duel of money and power.

It's just that in the United States, the importance of wealth comes first, and only with money can there be power.

After all, what appears to be a throne like the president of the United States is actually in the service of the capitalists.

The capitalists put certain people on the presidency only in order to get the government to make decisions that are in their interest at all levels.

Of course, the United States is good at putting on a glamorous façade for these ugly deals.

Although the president is actually serving the big capitalists and big interest groups, they just want to open their eyes and tell nonsense that these people are serving the interests of the voters.

Of course, as an ordinary voter, I also feel that what I said seems to be right.

After all, the president is really elected by them on a one-person-one-vote basis.

It's just that......

What they haven't realized yet is that they think they're free to choose who is theirs.

But in reality, it's just what they think of as freedom.

Big capitalists can use a variety of methods to get them to choose who they want them to choose.

Even, even if there is an accident.

The kind of president who truly represents the interests of the electorate can't say how long he can do it.

First of all, there is hardly any person in this world who has not done something wrong.

Anyone has made mistakes, and they can be big or small.

But for public figures, especially presidents, small things are big things.

If, a president supported by voters, suddenly erupted in addition to many scandals.

The news media has played up his scandal extensively, will the vast majority of voters still stick to their insistence and almost support the president?

Alternatively, other options that don't seem to be stained will be supported.

And the other options, the reason why there is no stain is because they really have no stain, or because of what?

Ordinary voters, despite their largest numbers, are not the loudest.

Even if they shout with their loudest voice, their voices can easily be drowned out by the news media.

It's not that the content they promote is not good, it's that they lack a reliable propaganda medium.

Perhaps, in the United States in the past, the voice of voters was able to be released to a certain extent.

However, for the American newspaper group, which has been integrated by Doug, it is almost impossible to have such an opportunity from now on.

Because the American newspaper group has made a qualitative change on the basis of Doug's requirement that it must be profitable.

This change, in a way, is huge.

First of all, if a media wants to make a profit, it needs to make their target users pay willingly.

How do you get your target users to pay?

This is the same as a prostitute (harmonious) woman pleasing her guests, there is no difference.

A specific occupation, a specific living environment, will determine the general aesthetics of a circle.

Just like for the poor, obesity means not worrying about eating and drinking, and it represents abundance.

Different newspapers, if they want people to buy it, have to please their audience.

Pleasing is bound to be comfortable.

Although, the process of pleasing may not be the same.

After all, some circles like to be cold, some like to be unrestrained, and some like to be vulgar.

But, whatever they may seem, in reality, these newspapers have been transformed into newspapers that please their users.

The insistence of the so-called media people, the so-called ethics of the media people, do not exist here.

Those good things in the ivory tower can't survive in the real world.

A media person like Roman who has romantic ideals will also twist step by step in reality, gradually grinding off the edges and corners, and becoming a so-called mature person.

No matter how much the academic school criticizes this kind of flattery, in fact, as long as the market economy exists, this kind of flattery will not disappear one day.

Because, if you want to live, you can only please the audience.

Before Doug, those newspapers might have preferred to go out of business rather than engage in such pleasing actions and behaviors.

Is it because they don't know that it's going to be profitable?

Yes, of course they do.

But it's one thing to know, it's another to actually do it.

In the process, their body and mind are painful.

Because, on the one hand, they know how to live, but on the other hand, they don't want to do that.

Ideal and reality are divided into two completely different lines.

They choose the ideal, and therefore can only fail in reality.

But why did Doug come so that these newspapers could go and please their audiences?

First of all, Doug's approach is to change people without changing their minds.

If the current newspaper managers do not change their thinking, then you can step down and let people in their right minds come.

In this way, it is equivalent to a lot of external pressure.

Under this external pressure, some people will stick to their ideals and really give up the job in front of them.

But many more people will have a sacred heart. However, they will actually do what they were not ashamed to do before.

And, in the process, they will give themselves a psychological hint.

"I'm forced, I'm helpless, I'm just trying to survive. ”

They will blame others for everything, such as Blair, for example, Doug.

They will do evil things while thinking they are still holy.

Even if they have gained great wealth because of what they consider evil, they will still think that they have been forced to do so.

Are they really forced to do so?

No, it's not.

They just want to find something in their own behavior.

No one thinks they are evil.

Even the most evil person thinks that everything he does is right.

Because, only when you think that what you are doing is right, can you do it with firm faith.

Human beings are not only good at deceiving others, but also at deceiving themselves.