Chapter 194: Off the beaten path
It's easy to make scandals, but it's more difficult to quell them.
Maybe Lin Zixuan's reputation in the past was too good, and there was no news in his private life, but this time it was a peachy incident with a popular female star, and many newspapers participated in this entertainment carnival.
Especially when the photos were taken this time, with evidence, it seems that it is even more true.
A big newspaper like "Declaration" pays attention to identity and will report truthfully.
After all, the two are just in the same hotel, and there is no photo of the two of them in the photo, let alone the scene in the room of the two, everything is just a tabloid speculation.
In this era, I was not as crazy as the entertainment reporters of later generations, who were able to climb outside the windows of other people's homes with high-definition cameras to shoot.
Of course, the success of journalists is related to the bad habit of those who do not draw the curtains.
Lin Zixuan feels that as long as the curtains are not drawn, the scandal is fake news.
Just think about it, the two stars have a tryst in the room, and they have to open the curtains, that's not directly telling reporters, come and shoot me, I'm ready for a pose.
What he wants to create is a plausible scandal, not a scandal with solid evidence.
But tabloids are not as objective as the big newspapers, and the tabloids are doing their best to exaggerate in order to sell, and even hired ghostwriters to write erotic novels to describe in detail the story of Lin Zixuan and Meng Xiaodong's night in the room.
They did not name them directly, but used Mr. A, a literary genius, and Miss B, a movie star.
This is a common tactic used by tabloids, even if they go to court, they can argue that I didn't write about you, you don't have to sit down.
There are also newspapers that comb through the women who have a relationship with Lin Zixuan. Looking for suspicious places in it, their slogan is to make up scandals even if there are no scandals.
For example, a certain year and a certain month. Lin Zixuan and a certain woman had dinner together, talking and laughing. Or go on a tour with a certain woman.
Lin Zixuan soon discovered that the situation was showing signs of getting out of control, including tabloid hype and malicious slander.
He had many enemies in Shanghai, and it was rare to seize this opportunity, so he was naturally unwilling to let it go, and the magazines under the Commercial Press carried a long report.
The Commercial Press and Lin Zixuan's Vientiane Bookstore compete on all fronts.
Not only in movies and textbooks, but also in various magazines and periodicals, such as the Commercial Press's "Oriental Magazine" overlaps with the readership of "Vientiane Magazine", as well as the Commercial Press's "Women's Magazine" and Vientiane Bookstore's "Family Magazine" and so on.
The magazines that Lin Zixuan had in mind began to be printed. As a result, the number of editors in Vientiane Bookstore increased to more than 50.
Other studios didn't sit idly by and did behind the scenes.
"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" starring Meng Xiaodong opened a precedent for costume martial arts films, which was well received by the audience, this is only the first episode, you can imagine how popular the next sequel will be.
This series of movies launched by Star Pictures is definitely a money-attracting weapon.
Including the sequel to "Naughty Boy", the sequel to "Journey to the West", and the sequel to martial arts films.
As long as the first movie has a good reputation among the audience, the second movie is considered to be of poor quality. There are still audiences who buy it, and that's the strength of the series, which has cultivated a large number of fans.
In later generations, Hollywood was best at series movies. A series can go on and on.
"007" was filmed for the 23rd, "Star Trek" was filmed for 12, and "Star Wars" was filmed for the 7th......
They love and hate Lin Zixuan. Lin Zixuan found a way out for Chinese films, but did not leave a way out for other film companies. Other studios can only follow behind Star Studios.
No one likes to follow the herd, but they have to.
So. Seeing Lin Zixuan's accident, they were not only happy to see it, but also fanned the flames.
They naturally knew that this would not ruin Lin Zixuan's reputation, and even Meng Xiaodong's reputation would be difficult to influence, but they could always find some trouble for these two people, and it might affect the movie "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
Those viewers who regard Huang Rong as their dream lover may not like Meng Xiaodong when they see this kind of news.
However, no one thought that this was a scandal written and directed by Lin Zixuan.
Of course, he encountered a lot of trouble, mainly from his family and Feng Jingyao.
Lin Boqing talked to him once, even if it was fake, it was nonsense, too undignified, the older generation regarded reputation as particularly important, and did not want a scandal in the family.
Lin Zixuan felt that he still hadn't fully integrated into this era.
After all, he is not a person of this era, he often uses the thinking of later generations to do things, and subconsciously thinks that scandals are not a big deal, and there are not a few scandals on the Internet in later generations, in order to entertain the public in order to make headlines stars.
But in the eyes of the older generation, it is something that affects the family style.
Therefore, Lin Zixuan was ready to cool down this scandal, and he sued the newspaper that first published the news and the newspaper that arranged the scandal in court.
Everyone didn't expect that Lin Zixuan really used legal means, which was not scientific.
In the past, this kind of news was carried out with an attitude of calming things down, after all, this is not a good thing, and after a while, readers will lose interest, and it will be over.
Lin Zixuan's approach undoubtedly added fuel to the fire and made this matter continue to heat up.
At this moment, many people remembered that Lin Zixuan had gone to the United States to fight a lawsuit, although he did not win the lawsuit, but he restored his reputation.
The concession in Shanghai is actually no different from Western society, and everything is carried out according to Western law.
Lin Zixuan fiercely criticized this kind of malicious slander and slander of others' reputation in the newspaper, believing that it was the people's patience and swallowing their voices that fueled this unhealthy trend.
Society needs a good atmosphere and positive energy, and we cannot tolerate the cultivation of adultery and still survive by this kind of tabloid.
The Republic of China is a society with a legal system, and it is necessary to govern the country according to law, so that there are laws to follow, laws must be followed, law enforcement must be strict, and violations must be prosecuted.
We must not only know and understand the law, but also take up the weapon of the law to safeguard our own rights and interests.
His statement was unanimously supported by Shanghai jurists, especially the provost of Shanghai University, Shi Zhen.
Shi Zhen is not only a J.D. from the University of Michigan, but also the Chinese representative of the third International Bar Association, and can be said to be a representative figure in the legal community in Shanghai.
He greatly appreciated Lin Zixuan's concept of "governing the country according to law" and supported Lin Zixuan's lawsuit in the newspaper.
As a result, the wind of the news media suddenly shifted from the scandal between Lin Zixuan and Meng Xiaodong to the legal aspect.
Many jurists have published articles on this issue, because it is a very interesting question.
Is tabloid reporting a free press or malicious defamation? How do you define the difference? How to tell the truth of a tabloid report?
Through this incident, Lin Zixuan gave people a different impression, and he always felt that this person did not follow the usual path and could not be viewed with common sense. (To be continued.) )