Chapter 1280: Scapegoat
Who is making today's news environment a miasma? It's the eyeball effect of the gossip news, and the commercial benefits of the hot spotlight.
Who is it that makes the media lose their most basic professional ethics and professional integrity? It's the attention and attention that comes with endless news hype, it's the one that comes with endless voyeurism. Desire. Looking at the carnival of the whole people.
Who made the uncrowned king lose his crown and become a minion of commercial interests? Be...... Be...... It's the imagination of those supermarket gossip tabloids, beyond the bottom line, and doing everything.
Everybody condemns journalists, everybody condemns the journalism industry, but it is impossible for people to involve the entire industry, which is a huge group and a part of society, and in the final analysis, it is a social phenomenon - it can also be explained as the inevitable result of the entertainment and death of the market economy. It's hard to satisfy the general audience, so they need a scapegoat.
The National Enquirer became the target, or more accurately, the supermarket tabloids represented by the National Enquire became the point of attack for concentrated firepower, and Anthony Bond Stewart became the prey from which there was nowhere to run.
Almost all the media have aimed their guns at supermarket tabloids, believing that it is the supermarket tabloids that ignore the facts in the process of reporting, and even do not hesitate to fabricate and falsify news in order to attract attention, so as to achieve the goal of creating a breaking point among readers.
This was the case at the time of the Michael Jackson incident, and the "National Enquirer" even bribed the staff of Neverland and the relevant personnel of the Los Angeles Police Department, just to obtain scattered clues, and then fabricate and associate them according to the facts they wanted.
It is precisely because of the malicious hype, mercenary and distortion of facts in the supermarket tabloids that the audience's appetite has become more and more unruly, which in turn has affected the audience market and misled the market orientation. The supermarket tabloids' snooping on privacy, ignoring the truth, and creating explosive points are also stimulating the changes in the news market step by step.
Not only celebrities or other public figures, but also supermarket tabloids often like to exaggerate and add drama to the coverage of many ordinary news events, and they will even report the content of ordinary citizens' daydreams or fantasies as facts, making Yan SΓΉ news also a means of entertainment.
In other words, the supermarket tabloids are the culprit.
The major news media have joined forces to spare no effort to attack the "National Inquirer" in an attempt to divert the attention of all audiences, and even more than 89 media outlets have reported on the relevant content as the front-page headlines, and the thriller headlines similar to "who is the murderer" all point to the "National Inquirer", and the overwhelming news has focused almost all the firepower on the "National Inquirer......
It is as if these media had never been on the side of the "National Enquirer" against Hugo before, as if the entire news industry had no connection with them, as if the media industry had been ruined by a mere insignificant supermarket tabloid, as if these media had always been defenders of the moral high ground.
The media, which has been so, is so, and will be so, is what they do best.
Less than four months ago, when Michael Jackson cleared his name, the New York Post and the National Inquirer became scapegoats, leaving them miserable in the aftermath of the witch trials; And this time, without the "New York Post" as a difficult brother, the "National Inquirer" would be alone in the face of the pain of ten thousand arrows piercing the heart.
Under the guidance of mainstream public opinion, the headquarters of the "National Enquirer" in New Jersey and the main branches in New York and Los Angeles have become the targets of the protesters to vent their anger. Violent. Alarm. Cha had to go out en masse, and it took nearly thirty minutes to bring the scene under control.
Now the "National Enquirer" is a real storm, as if it is in a state of imminent collapse at any moment.
Among them, Anthony is a lone target who dances wildly on the line of death, and before things get more serious, he was stopped by a parade on the streets of New York, and he was beaten so hard that he couldn't even remember how many people beat him, and his head went blank, and when he woke up on the street with a bloody face, the pain suddenly overwhelmed him, and he had to struggle to call a taxi to the hospital. At that time, after those people beat him, they scattered in a swarm, and when they arrived at the hospital, they came to inquire about the situation. Cha also looked excited, and looked like he didn't want to ask at all.
This reminded Anthony of what happened to Michael Jackson in the first place. Although the Constitution stipulates that all persons are equal before the law, even a convicted prisoner has the right to basic human rights, let alone a victim of a beating. But the reality is that many times, a little prejudice, a little preconceived, a little self-righteousness, a little condescension, can change too many problems.
For example, without any evidence, Michael underwent a disgraceful fruit examination; For example, in the case of only chasing after the wind and shadows, everyone is probing Hugo's psychiatrist's inquiry records; For example, when Anthony became the scapegoat of the United States, they were not very motivated to investigate the criminal process. Anthony speculated that perhaps deep down they were still muttering "good fights, good fights", but it was just an obstacle to justice, so they routinely came to investigate.
Thinking of this, Anthony dropped the complaint and did not give in to the police. The investigation continued. Because he knew very well that now he was also the prey, and like Michael and Hugo, he was the target of encirclement, and those fierce eyes were waiting to tear him to pieces.
Sure enough, in less than three days, Anthony's residences in New York and Los Angeles were all found out, and some people even stood guard at his door day and night, obviously with bad intentions, which made him so scared that he didn't dare to go home at all, so he could only hide in a remote and dirty motel in Pasadena, panic all day.
Anthony has always known the reality of this society, all people are small individuals, today they can be hunters, but tomorrow they may be prey, so everyone is struggling, trying to keep climbing up, the higher you climb, the higher you can have more control over your own destiny, but the real life is, the height is unbearable, even the top leader of a country, even the richest man in the world, even the top artists in the world, they are also subject to countless constraints, their constraints are more and heavier.
The uncrowned king, a name that is still coveted by countless people, but behind it is the danger of being betrayed at any time. Journalists can turn anything into a story, it's their ability and it's their obligation; If there is enough interest, they can sell their colleagues, sell the organization, and even sell their own souls.
Anthony once sold his soul, he did anything to get the news, and he suddenly remembered the first meeting with Hugo, the 1993 Golden Globe celebration, when he easily won and played Hugo around. How proud he was, how proud he was, he really felt like the uncrowned king.
Now, Anthony is suffering the consequences, he has become the object of betrayal, and this time, he seems to face a bottomless abyss.
Brandon-Bryan comforted him to avoid the limelight recently and not to come out for the time being, but Anthony knew that Brandon was now the editor-in-chief, and if he could save Brandon himself as a scapegoat, then Brandon would definitely not have any hesitation; The National Inquirer also needs a scapegoat, otherwise they will be drowned out by the accusations of the news media, and Rupert Murdoch will not let his investments be ruined in this way, so he is a ready-made target, and with a single push, all ties can be discarded.
The same is true of fellow journalists, who dare not have anything to do with him, lest they themselves become the target of the media's crusade, and not only that, but they also stand opposite him and attack him with their weapons, not only for self-preservation, but also for profit.
That's the reality.
Anthony hadn't heard anything for five whole days, no one had contacted him, no one cared about him, no one cared about him; But when you open the newspaper, his name is the most eye-catching headline in the major newspapers, "Mr. Bond, the source of evil", "Anthony Bond Stewart, the cancer of journalism", "Jackson, the mastermind behind Lancaster: Anthony Stewart", "The saboteur who threatens journalistic ethics, gossip reporters from supermarket tabloids", "The dirt that erodes the crown of the uncrowned king: the history of Mr. Bond's rise", "Expelling Mr. Bond from the press!" The source of all evil in society! ββ¦β¦
See, almost all of them remember his; But his phone didn't have a single call for five days, which is ironic.
Anthony suddenly remembered a very small thing, when Michael Jackson was molested. Child. At the time of the case, he bribed the doorman of Neverland to take some exclusive photos, but he was spotted by Michael, who was standing on the balcony, and he was shocked at the time, thinking that Michael would riot and ask the guards to evict him, which made him run away.
He glanced back at Michael as he fled, and found that Michael was standing motionless like that, his face hidden behind his sunglasses was full of loneliness and confusion. In the end, he escaped along the way, and there was no chase from the guards.
At this moment, Anthony seemed to suddenly understand what that look meant, Michael's, Hugo's...... The bitterness that danced on the tip of his tongue made him taste it carefully and slowly.
On Monday, August 21, the front page of the latest issue of the National Enquirer read, "The Sinner of History: Anthony Bond Stewart." β
No one informed Anthony, and it was Anthony himself who saw this issue of the newspaper and learned that he had become an outcast after all, and he himself was the last to know.