Brian Barlow pulled a crumpled box of cigarettes out of his pants pocket, searched for a lighter on his body, but found nothing, looked back at the distance from the parking lot, thought for a moment, and finally continued to walk in the direction of the office.

The San Francisco Chronicle's branch office in Burbank is a busy day to kick off, and today is no exception. Brian nodded and greeted his familiar colleagues all the way, and after entering the office, he sat directly on the desk of Chris the reporter of the Social Department, "Is there a fire?" Brian took a cigarette in his mouth and gently lit the end of his cigarette with the flap of his lips.

Chris rummaged around the table to find the match he had picked up during his unannounced visit to the club last week and tossed it over, "Do you still have the heart to be here?" I just saw Cooper enter the office with a furious look on his face, and an emergency meeting was held, and all the people left behind in the entertainment department went in. ”

Brian was still unhurried, lit his cigarette, smoked slowly, and said disdainfully, "When will Cooper not be angry?" The flirtatious and mocking tone made Chris laugh too.

Cooper-Singer, the editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, took office in 2002, and because the Los Angeles Times is the dominant company on the West Coast, Cooper has been under tremendous pressure since taking office, and in recent months he has simply left his headquarters in San Francisco for Los Angeles. However, because the branch office was not fully equipped, Cooper did not even have a separate editor-in-chief room, but only used the conference room for office.

After laughing, Chris also slowly lit a cigarette, "However, this time it may be real." Brian paused and looked at Chris, "Penelope Cruz seems to hook up/hook up with Matthew McConaughey during filming......" The words behind him didn't have time to be spoken, and Brian jumped off the table directly. Stepping on the Hot Wheels, he rushed towards the conference room, and one accidentally stumbled two steps, almost falling a, but he got up again and continued to rush forward.

Chris stared at Brian's embarrassment dumbfounded, and it was too late to say the rest of the words, and then pouted, "The scoop is not ours. ”

Brian opened the door to the conference room and saw half of the room occupied, but he ignored the rest of his colleagues. Looked straight at Cooper, "What's going on?" ”

Cooper frowned, crossed his hands on his hips, and paced back and forth anxiously, clearly angry. After being interrupted by Brian, it was as if he had been thrown into the oil depot of Mars, and it exploded directly - he picked up the newspaper on the table, and threw it at Brian unreasonably, and suddenly the sky was full of scattered newspapers flying. "What happened? God hell! The most sensational news of the year doesn't belong to our family, and here's what happened! The most ridiculous thing is that you haven't received any news of it until now! Damn what's going on! Aren't you spying on Lancelot all day? He's working on a hellish movie with Tom right now, and you haven't heard anything about it? So have you been eating//all this time? ”

Cooper was almost firing on fire. Foul language spewed out incessantly, but Brian didn't have time to care for Cooper's thoughts, he crouched down and rummaged through the spilled newspapers. This is a "New York Post", one of the top 10 best-selling newspapers in the United States, and its influence is far higher than that of the "San Francisco Chronicle". Moreover, this newspaper is an entertainment newspaper owned by News Corp. -- not that it specializes in entertainment news, but that it is a newspaper that does everything to attract attention for the sake of entertainment, and often relies on sensational scandals and anecdotes to attract attention, and it is also the only so-called "gossip newspaper" that can gain recognition throughout the United States.

Of course, the "New York Post" itself is not a "gossip newspaper", it is an absolutely rigorous, strict, and serious high-level media, but the focus of news is different.

Brian searched through the scattered floors, and soon found his target—it was actually a front-page headline, and the eye-catching red headline came into view, "Crack!" The clear and unambiguous title creates a strong visual impact, and the image directly below is divided into two versions, the left is a photo of Tom Cruise holding Penelope Cruz, and the right is a PR photo of Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock attending a charity gala together, but both photos are torn apart in the middle, and then Penelope and Matthew are implicated by a red thread.

There is also a small page directly below the picture, which is a small photo of You Hugging Pipa and half-covering his face, this is a photo of two people hugging each other tightly, and Matthew's side face can be vaguely recognized, and the long black hair hides the woman's face, and a red question mark is drawn next to it, bringing out the subtitle - "What happened?" Next to it was written, "See the twenty-third edition."

Brian only felt that he was about to go crazy, and knelt directly on the ground, rummaging through the twenty-three plates, while Cooper's angry and angry curses still echoed in the office, and the other colleagues lowered their heads and cast their eyes at Brian, and the atmosphere in the whole room seemed a little weird.

"Found it!"

Brian quickly picked up the twenty-three editions, and then saw the huge group pictures in the center, there were six of them, all of them were intimate photos of Matthew and Penelope, one of which was even a photo of two people kissing directly in the car, almost without any explanation, the shock came to the face, and the iron-clad facts could not be refuted at all.

Brian briefly scanned the article to the effect that Matthew and Penelope had sparked during the filming of "Sahara Cavalry", and that both men were personalities who were open to all possibilities and unwilling to be determined, so they came together without any burden.

Astound! Astound! Astound!

As a veteran entertainment journalist, Brian knows better than anyone the shocking power of this news, not only because Penelope and Matthew now have their own dates - and both are not small, but also because this is the umpteenth time that the two prodigal sons have ruined a stable relationship - Penelope has been in Hollywood for just four years, but has broken up Matt Damon and Winona-Ryder. A few couples such as Nicolas Cage and Patricia-Arquette, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman have sparked almost every collaboration.

Now, Penelope is once again with Matthew, who has not only been separated from Sandra Bullock in the past few years, but has always been accompanied by beautiful women during his free time, which can be called a low-key prodigal son in Hollywood.

Just by reading it once, Brian's mind was already lit with a storm of thoughts, and he could imagine that this piece of news would be enough to sweep the entire North American continent, and even continue vigorously into the awards season at the end of the year, and the topic would definitely be hot enough to surpass last year's "Bennifer......

"I'm going to Morocco!" Brian stood up and shouted.

But Cooper ignored him—or more accurately, Cooper was still immersed in his own world," ...... Do you know what the New York Post's sales were this morning? Two million three hundred thousand! Jesus-he//of-Christ, two million and three million! Now they've started the third round of reprinting! God ......"

With the gradual rise of the Internet, the influence of the print media is slowly declining little by little, and now the top 10 newspapers in the United States have an average daily sales of about 2 million, and the top three "Wall Street Journal," "USA Today," and "The New York Times," which are the top three in terms of sales, have the ability to exceed 3 million -- but it is not every day that they can reach such a level, and the "Los Angeles Times" ranks fourth, with daily sales of about 2.6 million, which is enough to be proud of the West Coast.

In other words, the New York Post had already sold 1.8 million in less than a morning -- it was just over 11 a.m., which meant that it was very likely to sell more than 3 million a day, which was an incredible feat for any newspaper.

The "San Francisco Chronicle" is only outside the fifteenth place in the United States, and the average daily sales are only about one million.

Brian didn't want to continue listening to Cooper's complaints, so he could only roar angrily, "You fuck me!" Cooper was stunned by the words, and then Brian clenched his fists and said, "I'm going to Morocco!" The fastest flight! "Brian can imagine that behind this scandal can be mined countless connotations, countless news, and countless follow-ups, compared to such a powerful scandal, Lance and Kayla's news can only be regarded as pediatric, and there is no difficulty in choosing at all." If you still want follow-up news, if you don't want to be left behind, I'm going to leave for Morocco right now! ”

With that, Brian turned and left the conference room and strode towards his workshop, where he had to get ready before leaving.

Cooper stood in the conference room, stunned for a moment, and finally yelled at the others, "What are you doing here!" Hurry up and go out and find the news, no matter what method you use, dig up more information about this news event, more! ”

The entire conference room suddenly dispersed.

At the same time, there was silence in the office of Diorama Pictures, Ryan Cavalauger's expression was mysterious and deep in thought, making it impossible to tell his true feelings, and Tucker Toure, who was sitting next to him, frowned, sometimes happy, sometimes worried, and the contradictory state of mind could not say a reason.

In the center of the desk is an octopus docking machine, a system for multi-party conference calls, when there is only an intermittent murmur on the other end of the phone, and nothing else. After a long time, Jason Berkeley's voice came from the other end of the phone, "No, I don't think it's a wise idea. (To be continued.) )

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