Subtitle of this chapter: Twilight of the Media of Conscience

Captain Aiden rushed back to the New York Metropolitan Police Department, returning for an emergency meeting. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe theme of this meeting is naturally our Master Yuan, and the participants are exactly the same table of bridge as last time.

The federal attorney general slashed his head and asked, "Captain, we're waiting for you." What happened to the Chinese? ”

General ZOD let out a sigh of relief, shook his head, and said, "It's not good. Attorney General Williams, according to doctors, the suspect most likely had sepsis. ”

"Sepsis?!"

The three people present exclaimed at the same time, and their faces also became very ugly. The boiled duck was about to fly...... When you go to heaven, who can bear it in your heart?

Mr. Harold Williams had the most unnatural expression because he was actually holding back a smile.

The federal attorney general peeked at the New York police chief and district attorney, and laughed in his heart, let you fight, fight for a dead man!

Hahaha......

However, on the surface, he sighed deeply, and said with a sense of "helplessness": "It seems that if you want to break the gap from this Chinese, you have to forget it......"

"Forget it?! Why forget it? How can it be counted? If you really want to forget it, what are we going to do......" The handsome prosecutor Ramsey almost said what was in his heart in a hurry.

However, he is also a professional politician who has been in officialdom for a long time, and immediately changed his tune: "How do we explain to the citizens of New York?" This is definitely not going to work! ”

Attorney General Williams pointed to a stack of newspapers on the table and said "seriously," "Donald, I understand your feelings. But now public opinion is a little unfavorable to us, so let's forget it......"

"Public opinion?!" The district attorney's handsome face was full of anger, and he turned his head and said loudly, "......What is public opinion?"

Well, he immediately came to his senses and changed his words again: "What's wrong with public opinion? In addition to Le Monde, a newspaper that is about to become obsolete, there are also a few tabloids chirping there. Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post said anything. ”

It is true that in 1920, there was no Internet and self-media, not even radio and television, and it really took a while for public opinion to ferment.

However, Prosecutor Ramsey's mind was in a mess, and he had no idea for the time being, so he had to look at Director Leo.

The old guy coughed and said, "Gentlemen, this matter really can't just be settled. ”

He said in a deep voice: "Even if that Chinese really dies, we can't let him go!" ”

The other three were not stupid uncles, and when they heard this, they suddenly understood in their hearts. Just like this old fox said, releasing the Chinese means that they are wrong, and how can anyone in the officialdom take the initiative to admit this mistake.

With a hideous expression on the handsome face of the district prosecutor, he said viciously: "That's right, you can't let it go!" ”

"I'm against it, I can't send it!"

While federal and New York judicial officials were meeting, a not-so-heated debate was taking place in the conference room of Le Monde.

The one who shouted out was the newspaper's senior political correspondent, and his objection to publication was naturally Yuan Yanqian's "A Few Questions About Wilhelm II".

A senior reporter about the same age as Mr. Editor-in-Chief said loudly: "I admit that what this Chinese said does have some truth. But attacking our allies and at the same time defending America's enemies is too much! ”

As he said this, all the reporters present looked at their editor-in-chief, Mr. Pulitzer. But the old man didn't say a word, but bit his pipe and looked out the window, as if he didn't hear at all.

Emma Pulitzer looked at her father outside the chalae, turned her head and plucked up the courage to retort: "Just because we publish his article doesn't mean we agree with him." ”

For her, the "little lady", the old reporter will naturally not be so unkind.

He explained pleasantly: "Miss Pulitzer, if it were just such an article, I would not object to it. However, he just published his article yesterday entitled "The Origin and Development of the Differences between the Top Leaders of the Democratic Party and the American People." Continue to post this Chinese article again today, this ......"

"The tendencies are so obvious!"

In 1783, the first daily newspaper in the United States, the Philadelphia Journal, was launched, and at that time newspapers were basically partisan political readings.

Of course, party affiliation alone could not support so many newspapers, and American newspapers gradually developed in the direction of entertainment and life, so in the middle of the eighteenth century, such as the four major tabloids, and various types of for-profit newspapers published in the city.

The market-oriented mode of operation gave newspapers an independent economic status, freeing them from the shackles of political groups to a certain extent. The progressivism that emerged at the end of the 19th century also influenced a growing number of American intellectuals.

Therefore, at the beginning of the 20th century, a group of reporters and writers appeared in the newspaper industry who took it as their mission to expose social evils, and they set off the famous "shady exposing movement".

The campaign not only exposed bribery, corruption and malpractice by politicians, but also pointed out the evils of the federal government and local self-government, as well as the corruption of the legislature. In addition to the government, they did not spare the capitalists, not only reporting on the appalling working conditions of the big industrial enterprises, but also about the phenomenon of newspapers and magazines selling themselves to monopoly capital.

The most famous of these works are Lincoln Stephens' The Shame of the City and Upton? Sinclair's "Slaughterhouse". (note 1)

By 1920, the major newspapers were neutral. It's rare to see Le Monde stand in line as nakedly. But these good days are not long. Because like all industries where free competition eventually leads to monopolies, the independent American news media is approaching twilight.

Of course, the sun was still shining on the earth at dusk, so it's no wonder that the veteran political journalist was upset.

However, it was useless for him to be dissatisfied, and Le Monde, like other mainstream newspapers of the time, adopted the editor-in-chief system. Whether to post this article or not, it is up to Herbert Pulitzer to decide.

"Let's ...... it"

The old man puffed out a puff of smoke and said softly.

The daughter sitting next to him didn't hear clearly, so she asked, "Dad...... Well, what do you say, Mr. Editor-in-Chief? ”

"I say......" Mr. Pulitzer raised his voice a little, "Fa!" ”

It's just that some of the reporters objected: "But ......"

The editor-in-chief of Le Monde looked stunned, and a burning light in his eyes swept over the reporters present, and his men were also shocked by such looks.

Well, Mr. Pulitzer is, after all, the heir to the "tyrant of the press". His temper is indeed good, and his ambition is really not big, but this does not mean that he is a sick cat who will not be powerful.

"When! While! ”

He slammed his pipe on the marble ashtray and said in a voice that was unhurried, plain and inviolable: "I will publish it when I say it!" ”

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Note 1: Upton, author of The Slaughterhouse, published in 1906? Upton Sinclair, a famous realist writer whom even Lenin praised. And this novel really caused the American people to worry about the quality of meat processing, which led to the United States Congress and various state legislatures deliberately enacting food hygiene inspection laws.

After the 1927 verdict in the Sakao-Van Zetty case, he wrote a novel called Boston, in which the protagonists were these two anarchists.

In the author's opinion, the book "Slaughterhouse" and John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" will be more effective when taken together by one worker and one farmer. The capitalist countries we see in the West are "elegant", but these novels also allow us to see a West that is not so elegant.

But then again, even if I ask Murong to read this kind of book now, I guess I won't be able to read it. It's so depressing to read this kind of novel, it's better to have a fight.