Subtitle of this chapter: Big News Finally Becomes News

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"Our school's problem? Mr. Yuan, do you have some mental problems? ”

"Hahaha. Mr. Vice Chancellor, I am normal. Listen to me......"

After listening to Yuan Yan's words, James B. Conant really felt a little ...... No, it's very exciting.

His background is a bit similar to that of the master of love, both of whom were born in a famous New England family, and are a member of the proper blue-blood aristocracy of the United States. Of course, the current status quo of his family is much stronger than that of the broken family of love craft.

The position of vice president of NYU is just a transition for him, and his old man's goal must be to be the president of a first-class university, and even the position of president of Harvard or Yale is a step to get him into the upper political circles.

Isn't Wilson, the president of Princeton University, the president?

Although Mr. Conant is only an educator at the moment, he has deep ties to the Republican Party, and he is the current vice president, John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. of friends.

All in all, James B. Conant has some political ambitions.

He habitually frowned slightly, and began to carefully examine the Chinese student's statement.

As the little guy said, losing is a personal matter, and winning is NYU's academic achievement, and it will be a great benefit to the school board. Thinking about it this way, it seems to be beneficial to the school and to himself.

Mr. Vice Principal pondered for a while, and then he spoke: "I have to admit that Mr. Yuan, what you said makes some sense. But ......"

He pointed out, "NYU is a famous university, not a racetrack. If you don't stop, then what about so many people out there? ”

"It's easy to do, it's easy to do." Yuan Yanqian said without thinking, "Mr. Vice President, from now on, I will only accept bets from people in the school. This is our NYU gentleman...... Well, there's also the 'game' between ladies. ”

"Well, that's an idea......

Just as Mr. Conant nodded, four men rushed in through the door. The four of them had crooked hats and slanted clothes, and it seemed that they had made a lot of effort to break through the crowd outside to get here.

These four guys immediately found the only yellow person in the room, and they ran towards our Master Yuan without stopping, shouting as they ran.

"I'm a reporter for The Sun."

"I'm a reporter for the New York Herald"

"I'm a reporter for the New York Tribune."

Yuan Yanqian couldn't help but raise her hand and look at her watch, it's more than two o'clock, and these guys' movements are too slow.

He sighed secretly in his heart, hey, if it was a hundred years later, the live broadcast car would have surrounded NYU a long time ago.

These three nineteenth-century newspapers are very "distinctive" and are known as the three penny newspapers in the history of American journalism. The term "penny" refers to the fact that the newspaper sells for one penny per copy and is sold on the streets. At that time, other newspapers sold for about 6 cents, and they were generally delivered directly to readers' homes and offices.

Although the price is cheap, the reports of these three newspapers are still very "quality". Common headings are:

"I Spent Thirty-Four Hours in Another Woman's Love Life"

"He Hit Me - I Love Him"

"I know who killed my husband, but I can't say"

……

"Mr. Yuan, I'm a reporter for the New York Daily News."

The New-York-Daily-News, of course, was not as well-known as the New York Daily, but in a few years, it would become the largest circulation in the United States at the time, with a daily circulation of 2 million copies by the thirties.

It launched just last year, and from the beginning it was keen to spread peachy news, and later published sexy girl photos "in a "unique way", which earned it the honor of "the king of American daily sales".

These four newspapers are a true portrayal of the shift from "yellow journalism" to peachy journalism in the United States. (note 1)

Heck, I've got all the reporters from the four major tabloids in New York at once, and it's really quite rewarding to think about it.

Yuan Yan said hurriedly: "Mr. Vice Principal, if you don't have a better way, please adopt my suggestion." I'm going to deal with these reporters. ”

Then he straightened his clothes and greeted the first media interview in two lifetimes with a big smile on his face. And the first question he was asked by reporters in his two lives was......

"Mr. Yuan, I heard that you have mental problems?"

What's the problem? He instantly lost his affection for these uncrowned kings.

"This ...... This is a slander of Chi Guoguo. I am extremely mentally sound, otherwise how could I have become a PhD student at NYU? ”

"Uh-huh."

The old man immediately lowered his head and wrote a line in his notebook......

"Mr. Yuan, I heard that you are a relative of the Great Commander of your country?"

Well, is this question much more normal?

"Well, let's just say that, it was one five hundred years ago anyway."

"I see."

The reporter who understood wrote the book......

"Mr. Yuan, I heard that your family is the richest man in China?"

Hey, don't let people underestimate themselves.

"No, no, no, it's a rumor. However, my family is indeed the richest man in a 'county' in China. ”

Generally speaking, there are three levels of administrative divisions in the United States, the first level is the state, the second level is the county (in fact, the county), and the third level is defined by the state governments themselves - it can be a town (towm) or a city (city). (note 2)

Yuan's hometown was just a county-level city in later generations, but here he cleverly changed his concept and changed from the richest man in a county-level city to the richest man in a prefecture-level city. The difference between the two is huge.

"I see!"

People have made corresponding records in a good way......

"Mr. Yuan, what I want to ask is how do you make a judgment that the Republican Party can win 250 votes?"

Hi, finally a more normal question.

"The Republicans won by 250 votes. This is the conclusion I came to with my dissertation advisor, Mr. Julian Chandler, a professor of political economy at NYU. Of course, the main thing is his opinion, and I am very convinced of this, otherwise I would not have accepted so many people and such a big bet. ”

"Then Mr. Yuan. Where is Professor Chandler now? ”

"Oh, he's back to Pennsylvania on a bit of a personal matter. If you want to interview him, come back in a few days. ”

"Okay, Mr. Yuan, can I take a picture of you?"

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Note 1: Yellow journalism and **** are not the same concept, and the origin of the title is not the same.

There are many theories about the origin, and the author thinks that the more reliable (you) spectrum (qu) is that the famous British nineteenth-century writer and gay Wilde was arrested for "offending morality" when he was arrested with a yellow cover book under his arm, so this yellow book became a "yellow book" under the reporter's pen, so there was the title ****.

Yellow journalism, on the other hand, does not refer to news that greets people from three directions, but refers to sensational and exaggerated crime news and social scandals, which make a lot of use of shocking news pictures and have a great inflammatory effect on the people at the bottom.

Remember the aforementioned assassination of President McKinley?

The arrested anarchist Assassin was found to be carrying a copy of Le Monde, known as "yellow journalism". Because of this incident, public opinion has lashed out against it, and yellow journalism has begun to disappear, and these tabloids have also turned to peachy news.

Note 2: Cities in the United States are not necessarily the third level of administration, but may also be semi-autonomous polities independent of the county. For example, all municipalities in Virginia are independent of counties. And Daxinxiang is a special case, where the city has jurisdiction over the county.

To understand the United States, those of us Chinese who have felt that centralization and unification are natural since our ancestors, must first know that the United States is actually a country within a country, and a country within a country.

This is because North America began as a colony of independent self-government, large and small, and the pioneers of these colonies were not originally from the same country; By the time of the Thirteen States of North America, a loose confederation system was introduced; Finally, after winning the War of Independence and signing the Declaration of Independence by the representatives of the states, federalism was established.

So the United States of America retains a large number of remnants of the Confederate system and independent colonies, and these semi-independent cities are one of them. There is also the fact that the cantons have independent judicial powers.

There are such plots in many film and television works in the United States, and the local police department can completely control the jurisdiction of certain cases without the FBI. But when these cases involve federal jurisdictions, such as the postal and financial systems, the local police department is no longer willing or able to stop the F.B.I. from interfering. This is the manifestation of the independent judiciary of the states and the jurisdiction of the federal government.