American Fortune Life

When the whole United States, and even the whole world, joked about the luxury life of Andy's wealthy family with the joke of "sterilize before holding the baby", the New York court formally accepted Andy Smith's legal team to "New York Post" to fabricate facts, Litigation of rumor and defamation was formally filed.

The indictment claims that the "New York Post" published offensive remarks that did not match the facts, and caused reputational damage to Andy Smith and his family, which had extremely bad effects. The court requested the court to pursue the legal responsibility of the "New York Post" and eliminate the adverse effects. Compensation A total of 1 billion U.S. dollars in mental damages and so on. . .

As soon as this news and sky-high compensation were revealed, there was an uproar across the United States, and other media were even more excited and inexplicably prepared to report on this contest between the two media kings. This is definitely a protracted media war and a media feast. Excitedly waiting for the big melon to fall.

All kinds of reports and news are rampant, and many legal professionals even stand up and speak out. It is generally believed that the "New York Post" has little hope of winning the lawsuit, because the rhetorical questions at the end of the report are indeed full of malice. Soon baby. . . Unless the New York Post has sufficient evidence to prove that what is stated in the news report is factual. Otherwise, it will lose the lawsuit and pay compensation, and the "New York Post" may not be able to pay 1 billion US dollars, and it will only go bankrupt.

In fact, most of those who have read that report know that the contents of the New York Post report may not be very authentic. They can come up with videos of daily life in Andy Smith's house to prove, however, it is undoubtedly impossible.

The United States has a long history of defamation, including written and oral defamation. At the end of the 1980s, due to the rise of electronic media, publicly malicious publishing (that is, people above a third party saw or heard) offensive words that did not conform to the facts was used as one of the criteria for defining the crime of defamation.

I am afraid that the freedom of speech this time can really not be a shield for the New York Post. The so-called freedom of public opinion refers to the freedom of individuals and the media to express their opinions. Commentators can criticize a person or a certain person from various aspects such as personal preferences, moral standards, and social influence. express opinions and views on a company or an event. However, freedom of speech does not mean that you can make false accusations against a certain individual or company by maliciously fabricating facts and creating rumors.

Because malicious factual accusations are extremely harmful, this kind of slander is published in a way that seems to state the true facts, which is very easy to mislead the public. Therefore, American law has a very strict definition of factual allegations.

Rupert Murdoch, who received the news for the first time, sneered at the lawsuit. Since he started working in the media, litigation has long been commonplace for him and his News Corporation. No one has a lawyer yet. group?

For rich people like them, going to court is really not scary at all, what? Little hope of winning? Then procrastinate, procrastinate for three to five years, until everyone is tired and bored, coupled with the impermanence of the world, maybe one day they will reconcile, it's as simple as that.

Although Andy Smith may not compromise and settle this time, Murdoch has prepared the legal team for a protracted battle. As for Andy Smith's other attack methods, the old fox has already predicted it.

What Andy Smith can do to him and News Corporation is nothing more than the "hacking scandal" that has been used once. However, how could the old fox, who had already suffered a loss last time, fall twice in the same place?

"Are you sure you've cleaned up the matter in England, right?" In the office, Murdoch looked at his son James seriously and asked.

"Okay, all hands and tails are cleaned up."

"Well, during this time, let the financial team keep an eye on the financial market. I'm worried that he will make a fuss about the stock market!" Murdoch narrowed his eyes slightly, and said indifferently, although he was not afraid to bump into Andy Smith , but there will be no contempt as it was at first,

The current Andy Smith is an existence that no one can underestimate.

Similarly, Andy is not a fool, and naturally he will not use his "hacking scandal" as a trump card. The old fox has even sent the biggest stabbing reporter to go to God, which shows how simple and rude the mopping up work is.

However, News Corporation is like a sieve, not only a festering rotten flesh is the Achilles' heel, and the wiretapping scandal, in Andy's view, is just an inflection point of Murdoch's media empire operating in the UK for decades, rather than its depth. An end in crisis.

On August 3, the headline on the front page of the British "Independence" reported that a senior British police officer investigating the "wiretapping case" said that the "Sun" under Murdoch's News Corporation used illegal means to buy news. In the deep operation center of this newspaper, the police, military, medical and health workers and government officials buy and sell news from the newspaper. In the past few years, a certain British official has made a profit of 80,000 pounds. . .

One stone stirred up a thousand waves. The original wiretapping scandal was unable to find out the reason for the delay in the investigation. News Corp., which made the UK a little bored and lost attention, was once again caught in the scandal of "buying news", which undoubtedly played a role in fueling the fire. The role of oil, especially the content exposed by the scandal of buying news this time, is all real investigation content.

And this time, the scandal of buying news with real money has aroused huge repercussions in the British media, political circles, and the police. It has once again brought the "hacking scandal" that had died down to public attention. After all, both incidents involve the media industry. Many issues such as ethics, improper police-media relations, and complicated government-media relations have become more and more difficult to quell.

The storm in the UK is just the beginning of Andy's plan. After all, the US and the UK are still separated by an Atlantic Ocean. The degree to which profit is maximized.

To put it bluntly, the real decisive battle of life and death is still on Wall Street! In the United States!

Therefore, in New York, USA, in a news interview program on NBC TV station, former Fox News Channel executive Dan Cooper broke the news in front of the camera that the Fox News Channel under News Corporation has a special intelligence department in the New York headquarters. , responsible for monitoring its employees and competitors.

"...most people think that the unit is probably just a simple research arm of Fox News. But in reality, it's an intelligence agency and 'black' ops division, so access to phone records is a big deal for them. It's a piece of cake."

Cooper also revealed that he helped build the highly secretive agency. The facility is staffed by 15 "researchers" with a guard at the door. People who work there are not allowed to talk to each other.

Facing the allegations, Fox News quickly came forward to officially deny the allegations and accused Cooper of spreading lies.

However, the American people were still eating melons with a bit of joy. When they were shocked by the news that kept breaking out, the New York Observer, the most credible Manhattan area, reported using an American investigator as the source, saying that the News of the World " tried to buy some of the "911" terrorist attack victims' private call records. . .

As soon as this report came out, American public opinion was in an uproar, and the whole of New York was angry.

"...I'm afraid I will disappoint you. The content of the news report is true, and the source of the news is very reliable." Andy smiled at the corner of his mouth, stood in front of the French window with his mobile phone, stretched out his fingers to press down the blinds, and squinted his eyes Looking at some reporters and editors of the Los Angeles Times who responded to the union's protest on the opposite street downstairs, their tone was very serious, and they said solemnly to the other end of the phone.

"Unforgivable! I can't imagine that "someone" tried to find the call records or voicemail messages of the victims and missing persons of 9/11 before the attack, and tap into the calls of the victims' families after the tragedy. This kind of thinking is really "despicable". This matter must be investigated, this is the United States, not the United Kingdom!"

"There really needs to be an explanation. After all, many of our neighbors on Long Island lost their loved ones in that disaster." Andy calmly put eye drops on Murdoch, because the person on the other end of the phone was the House of Representatives. Not only is Peter King, chairman of the safety committee, from Long Island, but relatives were also killed in the disaster.

"I will ask the FBI to intervene in the wiretapping scandal investigation! Damn the local and Australian villains..."

Listening to the swearing and swearing on the phone, the smile on Andy's face became brighter, and the cold light in his eyes became more fierce.