Chapter 252, Interview in Progress

"How did you and Will McQuayin meet?" As the laughter faded, Cuarón asked curiously.

"I've known each other for a long time." Brooklyn looked at Cuarón with a wicked smile and said casually

"I prefer to take some time out of the evening to watch the news, and the evening news he hosts is a rare show where the host doesn't express his opinion. Be more objective. ”

"You haven't met?" Caron saw that Brooklyn was not fooled, and asked again. His first question was a trap.

Although Brooklyn and Will McEvoy are known throughout New York, the two have always been in a state of 'God has been friends for a long time and have no chance to meet'.

He didn't ask, 'Do you know Will?', but came up and asked directly, 'How did you and Will meet?', and if Brooklyn didn't follow the explanation, it would be easy to inadvertently reveal the secret of his acquaintance with Will McWony.

This is very different from the way he and Will behaved to the outside world.

"I've only seen him on TV, and the first time I met him was in the dressing room." Brooklyn spread his hands and behaved innocently.

"Okay." Seeing that Brooklyn was not fooled, Caron looked down at the card and asked again

"Have you been in contact with him before?" Brooklyn shook his head.

"Please forgive me for asking. You've been arguing with him for so long since last year and this year, and I've never seen a topic stay hot for so long. It's hard not to wonder if it's the hype that you and Will are working with. Cuarón spread his hands and said with a smile.

"I'm a judge." Brooklyn shrugged and spoke in a relaxed tone

"My work needs to be done in court. The hype doesn't make me complete one more case. ”

"And my attitude towards the media is well known."

"Well, Brooklyn, a lot of people think you're being too the media, can you explain why?" Cuarón immediately asked.

"Is it harsh?" Brooklyn asked quizzically. Seeing Cuarón nod, Brooklyn looked back at the audience.

An answer rang out from the audience.

"You see, that's what the audience thinks, too." Cuarón took the opportunity to say.

"I don't think it's harsh." Brooklyn said musefully

"In fact, I don't want too much media in my courtroom. From time to time, they have to create some movement, which is not conducive to controlling the rhythm of the trial. ”

"You seem to hate the media?" Cuarón continued

"We've taken a look at your interviews with the media and found that you've been choking up with the media almost every time."

"That's because the quality of many journalists is worrying." Brooklyn said immediately

"They often ask idiotic questions or take me for an idiot."

"At one point, I suspected that press cards were issued arbitrarily and that you could get them as long as you applied for them."

"Why do you say that?" Cuarón asked.

"Like this morning." Brooklyn thought about it, mentioned the morning's incident, and briefly introduced the incident of the urine spiller, Brooklyn spread his hands and said helplessly

"A reporter even asked me if I would prosecute the perpetrators."

"I told him that the assailant was coming for the naturalized person, not me, and that the assailant did not cause me any harm. Why should I sue him. ”

"The reporter asked me again if I would be grateful to Kim Jae-jong and Ram Biza Yoon for coming forward when I was about to be hurt and being splashed with urine on my face."

"I told him that the assailant didn't come for me, and he asked."

"I suspect he didn't have a single language class in middle school."

"But they do think the assailants are coming for you." Cuarón said, pointing to the screen behind him, which showed a video of Rambiza Yoon and Kim Jae-jong being interviewed.

This interview video takes place shortly after the urine spilling incident. In the face of the interview, both said that they thought the assailant was going to Brooklyn, and they didn't think so much, so they subconsciously pounced.

They also told the camera that Brooklyn was fine. After the interview was played, Cuarón looked at Brooklyn.

Brooklyn looked at Cuarón and didn't speak. The two stared at each other for a long time, and Caron couldn't help but speak

"Won't you say something?"

"Say what?" Brooklyn looked puzzled.

"Don't you say anything about the heroic performance of these two? My friend, I thought you would at least thank them. Cuarón exaggerated.

"Why?" Brooklyn was still puzzled, and after a pause, he explained

"I don't really understand."

"Cuarón, if I hadn't been on this show, we met downstairs next Monday morning, and someone was going to kill me with a knife, would you stand up and block the knife for me?" Caron thought for a moment and shook his head

"I'm sorry, my friend, maybe I'll think so, but I must honestly say that I don't have the courage to do so. I'll call an ambulance for you after the gangsters leave, though. If you allow, I'll also take pictures of the gangsters for you. ”

"Look." Brooklyn said

"That's the problem."

"When you see someone suddenly rushing up with a wide-mouth glass bottle containing an unknown liquid, what does it think of at first glance?"

"Sulfuric acid?" Caron tentatively gave a reply.

"Whatever it is, it's not going to be Coke." Brooklyn was noncommittal about his answer and continued

"When someone spills sulfuric acid, you may block it for your family or friends, but it's rare for someone to block it for a stranger."

"I'm not president, or Einstein, after all."

"But you can't deny that there are people who do that." Cuarón said after thinking about it.

"Yes, there are people who do it, but not them." Brooklyn said

"I am in charge of this naturalization ceremony, and I know their information well, and I know what kind of personalities the 123 people in this naturalization ceremony are." Cuarón smiled with a hint of a treacherous victory, and immediately said with a wicked smile

"My friend, can I understand that you just leaked the privacy of Rambiza Yoon and Kim Jae-jong to a full-federal audience?"

"I don't know much about law, and you can't expect to teach law in a communication major. But personality traits are also considered private, right? ”

"This seems to contradict your verdict in Cedric's Eucalyptus."

"Well, you've got the handle." Brooklyn didn't panic at all, and was even in the mood to make a little joke with Cuarón.

After the joke, he pondered for a moment and said seriously

"It's not the same as Cedric."

"What happened at the naturalization ceremony was supposed to end after I left, and the attackers had nothing to do with me, nor did Rambiza Yoon and Kim Jae-jong being splashed with me."

"But they pulled me in an interview with the media, which disgusted me."

"I'm the one in this case, and I don't think it's a shame to not stand up when a stranger is in danger. This is normal. Recklessly acting in the face of righteousness and courage will not only not solve the difficulties, but will create more difficulties. ”

"You mean they're hype, right?" Cuarón picks out the subtext in Brooklyn's dialect.

Brooklyn didn't deny it, just said

"I don't like people to rush me into a storm." Caron nodded, and said again

"But under tort law, if they don't take action, they may face legal liability." Brooklyn glanced at Caron in surprise, and Caron innocently put away his card

"I'm a communications major, and law isn't my specialty. This is what I looked up before the show started. ”

"Then you're well prepared." Brooklyn nodded in approval.

"Thank you. I've always been serious about preparing for the show. ”

"But you're not prepared enough." Brooklyn explained

"This provision of tort law does not apply to the circumstances."

"If you come across a Chevrolet owner on the road and you're bleeding for help, if you ignore it and drive over, the law won't hold you responsible. But if you stop and don't do anything, just park next to him and watch him quietly, that's a violation of tort law. ”

"Because when you park next to him, other car owners passing by will think that the car owner has already received your help and will not help again." After listening to Brooklyn's explanation, Cuaron showed a look of sudden realization and said to the audience

"It seems that the communication major is really not suitable for studying law." Amid the laughter and whistles of the audience, Caron picked up the card without changing his face, looked at it, and put it down again.

"Okay, you've got through." His rogue tone made the scene, which had just calmed down, noisy again.

In the midst of the uproar, Cuarón played another video.

"The winner needs to be decided by both parties in court, and I have no right to decide who is the winning party. But I would like to warn some of the media, especially A, that I do not have the right to decide the winning side, and you have no right to make that decision. Whoever tries to use public opinion to interfere with judicial justice, I will let him know what true justice is! These are the words of Brooklyn in an interview outside the courthouse before Derrick's trial began.

After the segment, Cuarón played another clip of Will McEvoy's report on Cedric.

"Freedom of speech is a constitutional right, and a legal certificate issued by the government allows television stations to follow every hot story. In the tracking report, it is inevitable that some of the private information of hot people will be involved. This is within the limits of the law. ”

"We understand the Brooklyn judge's sympathy for the families of the deceased, but I would say that if Ben Eucalyptus ultimately decides in favor of the Bella's family, the federal will be a global laughing stock."

"The Federation is a country of freedom, since the DL War, countless people have used their lives to win the freedom for us, the citizens of the Federation are born free, we enjoy personal freedom, freedom of speech, the victory or defeat of this will test whether the Federation needs another DL war, whether our citizens have been truly free." That's what Will McWone Yin said on his show the night after his interview in Brooklyn.

"Your argument seems to have started with a split of opinion on freedom of expression in the media?" Cuarón asked

"Can you elaborate on what you think?"

"There's not much to say." Brooklyn smiled

"Now the verdict has come in and the plaintiff has won the case. The Federation has not become a global laughing stock. ”

"So in your opinion, future news programs must be like press conferences on the federal government, reporting only on the good and turning a blind eye to the shortcomings?" Cuarón asked.

"What is good? What are the shortcomings? Brooklyn was calm in the face of Cuarón's apparently aggressive questioning, not provoked by him

"The Law of Rights ensures that everyone has the right to say 'no,' but now news gathering is constantly crowding out the space for the Law of Rights to survive."

"What you mention about good and bad should not be defined by the media. Rather, it should be defined by the respondent himself. If the interviewee clearly says they don't want to talk about a topic, they should stop the interview and don't talk about it. ”

But isn't that just putting a lot of questions on the back burner and pretending not to see them? You can't ask everybody to be blind, can you? Caron said.

Brooklyn took a sip of coffee and explained

"Take, for example, the reporting of Cedric. There's nothing inherently wrong with reporting on Cedric. If they had reported the matter impartially and had obtained the consent of the parties when broadcasting information about Cedric's family, there would have been no problem with their reporting. ”

"But their reporting on Cedric is neither fair nor objective, and they broadcast personal privacy without the consent of the person concerned."

"In court, they use the law of rights as an excuse to try to exonerate themselves."

"I don't think the judges who amended the Law of Rights probably didn't expect that the supplementary provisions of the Constitution that he amended would be used in this way." When it comes to this, Brooklyn has a lot of emotion, and it is inevitable that he will say a lot.

In addition to the public's misinterpretation of the law of rights, Brooklyn also mentions the encroachment of technological developments on personal privacy.

"Law is a social science. It needs to be constantly updated and iterated with the development of society. No country's laws are immutable. ”

"When we can only listen to the news on the radio, a lot of the questions become simple and primitive."

"Things started to get complicated when we watched the news through TV channels."

"Things get extremely complicated when we receive news through various media such as the internet, video, mobile phones, computers, etc."

"I mentioned in Cedric's verdict that the mainstream media has changed in recent years. In fact, this is also the disadvantage of development. ”

"Compared to before, surveillance is starting to become more common, and in the past, you had to ask for their consent to take a picture of someone, otherwise it would be an invasion. Now the surveillance on the streets is clearly filming people coming and going, but no one cares. ”

"It's a space where development is constantly crowding out privacy."

"Surveillance certainly brings a lot of convenience, it increases the rate of failure by the police, and it provides a new type of evidence for the prosecution. Monitorability also makes people less sensitive to personal privacy. Or more precisely, it's not that people are no longer sensitive, it's that reality makes people insensitive. ”

"We can't sue the surveillance footage all over the street, can we?"

"I once came across a eucalyptus where the defendant's criminal act was filmed in its entirety by the dashcam of a car in the parking lot, and when the prosecution presented the video from the dashcam as evidence, the defendant argued that the source of the video was illegal and could not be used as evidence. His reasoning was that the dashcam had filmed him without his permission, which was an invasion of his privacy. ”

"How did you decide?" Caron was captivated by what Brooklyn was telling and couldn't help but ask.

"The defendant has a point. But I still allow the video to be presented as evidence. Brooklyn said helplessly

"Like I just said, this is the reason why the development of the law has not kept up with the times."

Nowhere is this more evident than on the web. Because the network is developing too fast, the management of the network by various countries cannot keep up with its technological development. This has led to a lot of chaos on the Internet. ”

"There are many things that you know are unreasonable, but because there is no law to rely on, you can only watch them exist."

"This situation is also a test for judges."

"What judges fear most is that there are no precedents to follow. Fresh eucalyptus is always hard to make. Because you have to consider that the decision you make will not only affect the two parties, but will also rule for many subsequent examples, and for countless similar situations in this society. ”

"What was originally controversial was decided after you made a ruling. But when you look at the similar situation, there are many changes. Sometimes it is a just verdict in one case, and it may be an aiding and abetting in another. ”