"The big news you want, we've got it." Ryan said to Swift, "But there's no way the editor-in-chief likes the news. ”

"Yes."

"I can go over and take pictures of the scene, and then we can say that it was done by the Chinese."

For Lane's construction, Swift was silent.

Ryan quietly waited for his partner's decision.

Finally, Swift said, "I've done a lot of distorted reporting in my life, but I've always believed that those reports didn't go against my bottom line." But this time...... I cannot cover up the crimes of people who kill a large number of their own people - and women of their own ethnicity - and of that ethnicity. ”

"So we report the facts?"

Swift hesitated again, and while he hesitated, the Arabs, who had shot and killed the women of their own race, were overtaken by the banshees in the air and brought down with their cannons.

Ryan decisively captured this scene.

And Swift also made a decision.

"We're going to report the facts."

As soon as they finished speaking, unfamiliar English came from behind them: "Raise your hands, surrender your guns and don't kill!" ”

Swift hurriedly raised his hand, then slowly turned around, and he saw the faces of the Asians who were pointing guns at him and his partner. It was really a face full of stupidity, but the soldier's expression was murderous, and it was very contradictory to his face, which gave people a very strange feeling.

"We are journalists......"

As soon as Swift spoke, he was interrupted by the soldier in Chinese, and it seemed that he only understood the English sentence "raise your hand and shoot without killing". Swift had no choice but to maintain the posture of raising his hands and wait for the officer who knew English to come.

Sure enough, an officer arrived more than ten minutes later.

"We're American journalists," Swift said to the officer, "and we're here to do news, and we hope you'll keep us safe." ”

"Of course," the officer nodded very cheerfully, "it is our country's commitment to protect the safety of foreigners in the Persian Gulf, at least for now." ”

The implication is clear, and Swift also knows that the momentum of US action in the Persian Gulf is becoming more and more obvious, and perhaps in the next month, the United States will go to war with the Chinese Republic of Mesopotamia in the Persian Gulf, and at that time, of course, the government and military of the Republic will no longer be able to continue to guarantee the safety of foreigners in the Persian Gulf -- at least not the safety of the Americans.

"Now it's not safe here," the officer continued, "please evacuate with us." ”

"Are you going to evacuate?"

"Of course, we're only attacking here to sweep up the pirates, and we'll be evacuated as soon as we're done collecting and destroying the weapons and other supplies stored by the pirates in the town, and it won't take long."

As soon as the officer finished speaking, a loud noise was heard in the town, and Swift turned his head to follow the sound and saw a huge cloud of dust slowly rising.

"That's our work of blasting the pirate ammunition depot, and later destroying the pirate's oil storage equipment, and by the way, setting the pirate ship on fire. We'll finish this in about an hour, so please follow us in our retreat. ”

"What about the townspeople?" Swift couldn't help but ask.

"We believe that all the pirates were killed in the firefight they had just exchanged with us, and that the rest should be innocent. We don't do anything to them, you might as well use your own eyes to make sure. ”

Swift nodded thoughtfully.

**

Two weeks later, Swift finally made it to Europe and finally returned to the United States on a new transoceanic flight.

On his return to the United States, Swift was greeted and was called Human Rights X by the people who came to meet him at the airport. Swift himself was completely unaware of the reason, and was welcomed back to the newspaper office in a daze.

In the newspaper, he was greeted even more grandly, and the newspaper put up a banner in the newsroom, and all his colleagues who were working stopped what they were doing and stood up to applaud him.

"Congratulations," Kelly, the office flower who had been ignoring Swift before, took the initiative to greet and shake Swift's hand, "You are the Pulitzer Prize this time." ”

"Wait a minute, what the hell is going on?"

"Your report," Kelly said, glaring at Swift, "your story has been reprinted in all the newspaper headlines, and now the whole of America is calling for intervention in the Persian Gulf to stop the humanitarian catastrophe that is taking place there." ”

Before Swift returned home, his report was supposed to be faxed back to the newspaper along with Lane's photo, and it appears that it was the story that attracted a lot of attention.

"So we're going to fight the Arabs?"

The flower of the office frowned: "What are you talking about, of course it's to stop the evil deeds of those Asians." ”

"Wait a minute, give me a newspaper that published my report."

Swift's colleague immediately handed him a copy, and when he glanced at it, he saw the huge headline on the front page: Demons from Asia, Tragedy by the Persian Gulf.

The caption picture is not a photo taken by Lane of the guerrillas themselves slaughtering women, but a low-altitude shooting of the partisans who start to run away after slaughtering the women.

The two photographs are placed together, clearly misleading, giving Swift a sense of foreboding.

Sure enough, the content of the report was completely different from Swift's feature, and there was no mention of the guerrillas' practices throughout, but a bunch of empty words. This is a normal means of guiding public opinion, and the whole news does not say anywhere that the Chinese massacred the women and children in the photos, but only that the Chinese opened the killing ring - this is not a lie, because the Chinese are indeed killing on a large scale, and it is difficult to guarantee that no civilians were killed in the bombing. But putting this article together with these pictures creates the impression that the Chinese are massacring women and children.

This technique is all too familiar to Swift, and the American news industry has been using this method to guide public opinion for many years, and every reporter understands it, and they all use it with extraordinary skill, and the skill level is unknown to their counterparts in other countries.

Swift's hand trembled slightly.

"Calm down, partner." Photojournalist Ryan whispered, "You and I both knew it was going to be like this, didn't we?" ”

"Yes, yes." Swift's voice sounded terrible, and you can imagine how devastating he was at this point.

"Shall we open champagne?" At this time, an unknown colleague asked.

Swift put down the newspaper and said in a tired tone, "I'm a little tired, let me go home and rest first." ”

"But the editor-in-chief told me to let you see him as soon as you arrived." Kelly said, "Do you want me to help you inform the editor-in-chief that you don't want to go?" ”

Swift hesitated for a moment before shaking his head: "No, I'll go." ”R1148