Chapter 603: A Sharp Weapon for Manipulating Public Opinion: Newspapers
The Propaganda Department is a new department mentioned in Sarean's national policy proposal, which is mainly responsible for guiding the general trend of public opinion at home and abroad, and tilting the international public opinion wind as much as possible in its own direction.
When it comes to propaganda and public opinion, we have to mention the newspaper as a big killer.
Since taking office as Minister of Propaganda, von der Lores has been busy preparing for the establishment of the newspaper, and now it has begun to bear fruit.
Kael'thas and others lacked sufficient awareness of the power of newspapers, and only after Sarren's repeated emphasis did they pay more attention.
Sarian has long realized the importance of public opinion from the barrage, and those who hold the power of public opinion can even say that black is white, and can also use fake news to mislead the enemy, and use a pen to turn the clouds and rain.
Newspapers, a powerful mouthpiece organization, are naturally in the hands of state organs, and the so-called freedom of the press is a fool.
Many barrage netizens also really recognized this problem through the recent Da Mao and Ermao wars on their side.
News Without Borders? Art without borders? Sports without borders? Science without borders?
Dute is a lie, and it is just a slogan used by Western countries to engage in double standards.
The Cabinet Office was also in the court of the Sunseeker, and von Delors soon arrived in Kael'thas with the newly established editor-in-chief of the Silvermoon Weekly.
The reason why it is a weekly newspaper is because the people in the technical department have just received the movable type printing technology submitted by Sarren, and it takes a certain amount of time to engrave those movable type models.
Fortunately, Quel'Salas's science and technology were quite advanced, and he had long since developed cheap paper that could be mass-produced, otherwise even movable type printing would not have been able to guarantee the production of newspapers.
When you become familiar with the process of newspaper materials, publication and printing, the weekly newspaper can evolve into a daily newspaper, further emphasizing the timeliness.
"Your Majesty, are you looking for me?"
Von der Lohr was not as one-size-fits-all as the priest of Lordaeron, he was a funny and easy-going man, and he was very popular in the cabinet, and he could even talk to the fringe man Darkan.
Von der Lores seems to be in a bad place in private, but he is quite strict in his work, and he has never missed work for personal reasons.
Although he could not fully understand the importance of the newspaper and public opinion, he conscientiously followed Kael'thas to build the framework of the newspaper.
Kael'thas smiled and nodded to von Delauer, raising his hand to hand him the secret information that Valeera had sent him.
"You read this information first, and then we'll discuss it in depth."
The newspaper editor von der Lor chose was named Dmet Huizh, who was also an old acquaintance of Kael'thas.
Prior to this role, Demeter was the leader of the royal family of bards and was trusted by the Sun Kings of Anastria and Kael'thas.
The information recorded in the letter made Von Delore's brow furrow.
"It's the Dreadlord again, these guys are really haunted."
Kael'thas chuckled and said, "It's not surprising, the Dreadlord who can change his appearance at will is the most suitable demon race in the Burning Legion to carry out infiltration missions. ”
"Since the collapse of the Council of Tirispha, the demons who have entered Azeroth have no one to stop them, and no one knows how many Dreadlords have taken the opportunity to enter."
"Fortunately, with the protection of the planetary enchantment under the Titan, the people who can squeeze in are not very strong individuals."
Von Delors passed the information to Demeter, who was beside him, and touched his chin thoughtfully.
"But it's not a way to go on like this, someone has to stop these lawless demons, right?"
Kael'thas nodded solemnly, "Recently, I was discussing with Antonidas whether to reorganize the Tirisfa Council. ”
"It's a pity that almost all the members of the council were killed by Medivan, and the only one left is still missing."
Von der Lores raised his eyebrows: "Merry Winterwind? ”
"Hmm."
Kael'thas subconsciously tapped his finger on the table: "Merry Winterwind is a veteran mage who has participated in the battle of trolls, and he also has some friendship with his father. ”
"Merry Winterwind is said to have a powerful Dreadlord sealed in his body, and since then he has chosen to self-exile, and even Medivan, the guardian of Tirisfa, has not been able to find his whereabouts."
Merry Winterwind was the first recorded lich in Azeroth.
Due to the perverse behavior of the Scourge in later generations, many people believe that the existence of the Lich is inherently evil.
But it's actually a prejudice.
The lich itself is not biased towards good and evil, they are just transforming themselves into undead mages, and the so-called good and evil only come from the personal position of different lichs.
Merry Winterwind is a lich who walks on the right path.
The tragic troll war was very short of people, especially mages, and Merry volunteered to transform into a lich in order to help the humans and the High Elves win the troll war.
Sometime after the end of the War of the Trolls, Merry Winterwind sealed a powerful Dreadlord named Casanatier within himself.
Casanatir was no simple figure, he had a high position among the Nasrezm clan, only below the leader Tikdios.
As we all know, in order to assist the Burning Legion in conquering the universe, the Dreadlord gathered the power of his entire clan to "create" a pair of sister swords.
The most famous of the sisters' swords is Frostmourn, which was brought into Azeroth by Tikdios, and is now in front of the frozen ice at the top of the Ice Throne, nominally belonging to the Lich King Neozu.
And the other is the magic sword Apocalypse that was once used by Casanatyr.
He used this bewitching magic sword to infiltrate a world called Navan, and used the magic sword's bewitching ability to guide Nawan's soldiers to kill each other, and easily destroyed that world without a single soldier.
After being reminded by the barrage, Sarren had long known that the two sister swords were not from the hands of the Dreadlord, but from their master, Emperor Denasius.
During the period when Dalaran was first established, a large number of mages used arcane art unscrupulously, and the uncontrolled arcane energy tore open a large number of space-time rifts, summoning demons far away from the warped void, and Casanatyr was one of them.
Thanks to the efforts of the original Tirisfa Guardian Alodi, Casanatyr was finally defeated.
Apocalypse was sealed underground along with many demonic weapons, and the mortally injured Casanatyr was sucked into Merry Winterwind and suppressed it himself.
That's the end of Kael'thas's story, and Sarean gets some follow-up information from the barrage.
During Egwene's tenure as Guardian of Tirisfa, the maverick Egwene was unwilling to follow the Council's instructions, often going his own way, and refusing to return the power of the Guardian.
The members of the Council of Tirispha, in a hate, set up a special organization called the Tyrisph Secret Order to capture her.
In order to take down the powerful Egwene, members of the Tyris Mystic Order were allowed to use powerful artifacts to strengthen themselves.
It was at that time that the magic sword apocalypse was rediscovered and handed over to a mage named Les Shar to use.
After a long period of turmoil, the Apocalypse fell into the hands of the Black Knight Eredin, and was stored in a treasure trove beneath Karazhan along with other artifacts.
Sarjan had made a pact with Khadgar to find an opportunity to reinvent these powerful artifacts and assist the defenders of Azeroth in their victory over powerful foes.
Unfortunately, Khadgar, the only one who had access to Karazan's underground vault, decided to stay behind at the last minute, and Sarjan didn't know what year he would be seen next.
Witnessing the rampant demons after the loss of the Council of Tiris, Antonidas intends to rebuild this ancient demon-hunting organization.
But the premise is to find Merry Winterwind, the last remaining member of the Council, and under his guidance, restart the recruitment ceremony of the Tirisfa Council.
The Council of Tiriss was originally founded by High Elves and Human Mages, and the task of rebuilding nature was left to the two leaders, Kael'thas and Antonidas.
While Kael'thas and von Delors were discussing the re-establishment of the Council of Tirisfa, Demeter finally finished reading the information from the royal city of Lordaeron.
Many people have the impression that the bard is a cynical image, and I have to say that this is another dogmatic prejudice.
Demeter Hui Zhi has a resolute appearance and a very calm personality, but this does not prevent him from writing those classic poems and ballads.
"Whew~"
Demeter let out a long breath and looked at Kael'thas with a solemn expression.
"Your Majesty, do you want me to ...... Or rather, what do you want the Silver Moon Weekly to do with this information? ”
A cold light flashed in Kael'thas eyes: "Spread the word, don't worry about the consequences, they don't dare to start a war on both fronts at this time, we can take this opportunity to test the influence of 'public opinion'." ”
"Terenus thinks that Quel'Thalas is a soft persimmon to be kneaded by him, and we can't blindly back down, but we can't take the initiative to provoke a war, so let's fight back against him in this way."