Because of the holding of the Huaxia Youth Daily, a reader's selection of the award-winning works of the Lu Award, the first Lu Award has received wide attention from the people of the whole country.

This is good news for the Lu Prize.

The high popularity and influence prove that the Lu Award has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people at the beginning and has a lofty position in people's minds. That's certainly a good thing.

At the beginning of its establishment, the Lu Award was positioned as the highest literary award in the country, and it is very promising to compete with the Mao Award for the status of the rivers and lakes.

Because compared with the Mao Award, the Lu Award is more comprehensive, targeting all literary genres, rather than only rewarding the creation of novels like the Mao Award.

This is the natural superiority of the Lu Prize over the Mao Award.

If it is done well, it is entirely possible that the Lu Prize will truly replace the Mao Award as the highest award in Chinese literature.

Therefore, the more positive news about the Lu Award, the better, and the award committee is also happy to see it, hoping that the whole society will pay attention to the Lu Award.

However, now that the Huaxia Youth Daily is playing such a play, the award committee does not like it very much, and the public opinion turmoil caused by this is also a big trouble for the award committee.

Literary awards are a very professional thing, how can the masses be allowed to point fingers and participate excessively?

Now, domestic readers have begun to participate in the evaluation of the major awards of the Lu Award, and the award-winning works selected by the masses will definitely have a considerable conflict with the award-winning works selected by the judges.

After all, when it comes to literary aesthetics, how can the average reader compare with the professional judges?

Readers appreciate literary works at best just to see the excitement, and the judges need to consider too many aspects, the value of the work, the meaning of the work, the form of the work, the structure of the work, etc., all of which need to be evaluated together, only in this way can the final evaluation of a work.

It is very irresponsible to let a layman participate in the evaluation of literary awards!

If the Huaxia Youth Daily finally mobilizes readers to participate. There is a big discrepancy between the list of winners of the Lu Award and the judges, so I am afraid it will cause an uproar in China and arouse the public's doubts about the Lu Award, right?

Out of this consideration, the Lu Award Committee even sent an article to Huaxia Youth Daily, hoping that the newspaper would stop this selection activity.

But this request was rejected by Huaxia Youth Daily.

The leaders of the Huaxia Youth Daily newspaper believe that the newspaper has the function of exercising supervision by public opinion. The purpose of the newspaper's readers' selection of the Lu Prize is also to cooperate with the publicity of the Lu Prize and to supervise the selection process of the Lu Prize.

Besides, Huaqing Daily's activity has already been vigorously launched, and many readers have participated, and if it suddenly stops abruptly, it will greatly damage the reputation of the newspaper.

How can Huaxia Youth Daily afford to be hurt?

In response to the tough response of Huaxia Youth Daily, the Lu Award Committee was also helpless, and could only let Huaqing Daily continue to promote readers' evaluation of Lu Prize.

But the award committee also decided to make its voice heard, and made a tactful criticism of the readers' awards held by the China Youth Daily.

The Committee is of the view that. Readers' motivation is good, but its drawbacks are obvious.

Why?

The Lu Award Committee made the following explanations.

First, most readers are not comprehensive enough to truly appreciate the value of literary works.

Second, the readers' awards, which are driven by the money lottery, have been seriously degenerated, and readers only participate in the selection for the purpose of participating in the lottery, and the selection of the award-winning works of the Lu Prize must be randomly selected. Such a selection result does not have any reference value at all.

These two drawbacks alone are enough to negate all the readers' selection of the Lu Award in China Youth Daily.

The Lu Award Committee held a press conference to make their views public. It was soon reported by a lot of media.

The Beijing Evening News made a big news article with this topic.

Their reporters randomly interviewed some readers of Huaxia Youth Daily, asking them about their own selection criteria and true thoughts when they selected the Lu Prize-winning works in their minds.

The reporter found that, as the Lu Award Committee defended, the vast majority of readers do not have a clear standard in mind when exercising the right to select.

Some people say that if the title of the work is interesting, they will choose it; Some said. The works I choose are all works I have seen, and those who are not familiar with them will not choose at all; Some said that they were dragged by friends to participate in this event; Some said they just wanted to try their luck and see if there was a chance to win the cash prize of Huaxia Youth Daily......

In short, the readers behaved extremely unprofessionally. More than 60% of them are spontaneous, and they don't take the award seriously at all, thinking that it's just a game that is not very important, and that's it!

The Beijing Evening News is also a major newspaper in China.

The Beijing Evening News played against the Huaxia Youth Daily in this way, and its investigative report-style news immediately caused a lot of public outcry.

The trend of public opinion has even begun to reverse, and more articles criticizing the Huaxia Youth Daily have begun to increase.

"Who turned the Lu Award selection into a complete 'prank'?"

"Huaqing Daily, this time, you are really wrong!"

"Stirring up public opinion, trying to influence the selection of the Lu Xun Literature Award, Huaxia Youth Daily, what do you want?"

"Readers' participation in the selection of the Lu Award is just a fantasy in the country of Zixu, and there is still a long way to go to replace the expert selection with the readers' selection!"

In short, many newspapers published a large number of controversial and critical articles in a short period of time, pointing the finger directly at Huaxia Youth Daily.

The vast majority of these articles believe that the readers' selection of the literary award can only be an absurd farce, and that the result of the award can only be ruined by the people's abduction of the results of the republic's nascent literary award!

The article appealed to the Huaxia Youth Daily to realize its mistakes as soon as possible, correct them, and not go further and further down the wrong road.

The article also earnestly hopes that readers can mature and not be kidnapped by some media, and realize that the evaluation of literary awards such as the Lu Prize is a very serious matter, and the professional work should be done by professional people, and the task of awarding should still be done by literary experts.

The emergence of these articles has caused great trouble to Huaxia Youth Daily and brought a lot of pressure to Meng Xidong.

Meng Xidong knew that this was a counterattack by the Lu Award jury.

This counterattack can be said to have grabbed the seven inches of the Huaxia Youth Daily, and it is still quite sharp.

Now, there are only two ways in front of Huaxia Youth Daily and Meng Xidong, one is to compromise, and the other is to fight to the end.

The leaders of the newspaper are still very courageous, and the leaders believe that at this time, they cannot back down, and they will be doomed by a single step, so it is better to face them head-on.

Since the opponent thinks that there are many disadvantages to the reader's selection, and a lot of articles have been made around this point.

Then, if you want to win the battle, you must start from the judges' selection, find the opponent's dead end, and make it painful.

There are actually a lot of disadvantages to the judges' selection.

Many people know the problems that exist in bribery, running awards, ranking according to seniority, engaging in small circles, excluding newcomers, and participating in the award of judges' works.

Now the test is whether the Huaxia Youth Daily dares to lift the lid.

In addition, there are many people who know about the above, but where can they get the fierce information with real evidence? This is also a big problem.

Just when Meng Xidong was at a loss, that night, Liu Ze invited him to dinner.

At the dinner table, Meng Xidong confided in Liu Zelai about the various difficulties he had faced in the past few days, and the leaders of the newspaper now wanted to catch a big negative aspect of the Lu Award jury, so as to achieve the ultimate goal of negating the jury system.

But now, he doesn't have a smooth channel to break the news, and he can't get the right news material to use to write a big article.

This made him very worried.

Hearing Meng Xidong say this, Liu Zelai, who came prepared, took the opportunity to tell him what he had heard.

This is the strange thing that Zhang Meng, the judge of the Lu Award Jury, tried to cooperate with other judges to disperse the nomination quota for the literary award, and there were actually judges who deeply agreed.

At the same time, Liu Zelai also told Meng Xidong about some of the judges he heard from the other judges of the prose award committee accepting bribes from writers, making deals with other judges, and electing each other's related households.

As Liu Zelai said, the three elements of location, events, and people are all determined, and this can be directly written into a news report.

For a new literary award, there are so many insider stories in its first award, and if such an incident were reported, public opinion would definitely be in an uproar.

Meng Xidong was very grateful to Liu Zelai, and when he needed help the most, it was his old classmates who lent him a helping hand.

However, if he knew that Liu Zelai had been using him since he first approached him for advice, I don't know how Meng Xidong would feel.

Huaxia Youth Daily responded.

The way it responds is more intense than ever.

"When a small group of people control the right to judge, the death of the award begins."

"The inside story of the Lu Award selection is exposed, and the chaos is thrilling!"

This is the introduction and main title of this news, and at a glance, it makes people very interested in reading. After this article came out, there was another huge earthquake in the domestic literary world, and the events in the news quickly began to spread wildly.

This news vividly shows the ugliness of the individual judges of the Lu Award, which is shocking after watching it.

At the end of the news, the ten major crimes of the Lu Prize selection committee were listed with only a small number of judges, and these crimes were described one by one.

At the end, he said: "With such a judge system, the profession is really very professional, but when the judges lack conscience and selfishness is rampant, such a judge selection mechanism is the root cause of completely destroying a literary award!" Rather than let the Lu Prize be ruined by this kind of judge selection mechanism with a serious lack of monitoring, why not try a reader selection mechanism that allows ordinary readers to participate broadly?

This ending is deafening. (To be continued......)