Material Empire

"Fuck! Where is this guy from!" Qin Hai was really shocked.

Ling Shijie was the reporter he asked Guo Qiushi to invite. In order to expose the shady situation of Xiaogang in Dongdaogou Village, this reporter disguised himself as an unannounced visit. From Qin Hai's point of view, Ling Shijie should be the one who hates Xiaogang the most, but the current title is obviously not in the right taste.

Without paying attention to the full text, Qin Hai picked up the phone and dialed Guo Qiushi's mobile phone. This mobile phone was provided by Qin Hai for him, so that he could answer Qin Hai's questions at any time while he was in the military hospital. .

"Hey, Lao Guo, how is your body?" Qin Hai greeted with a smile.

"Group leader Qin... don't you know my situation? I've been fine for a long time, but you told me not to leave the hospital. Well, I've been hiding in the hospital all day long... I've recovered from my body. "Guo Qiushi replied showing off an allusion.

Qin Hai knew that Guo Qiushi was reminding himself to make arrangements for him earlier. Qin Hai used pranks to make Guo Qiushi suffer a little, but it saved him from the danger of being interrogated by Gao Xuejian and then thrown into the cold palace. In order to compensate Guo Qiushi, Qin Hai asked the Economic and Trade Commission to come forward and greet Yanning Province, asking for the recognition and promotion of Guo Qiushi. Yanning Province has already promised that it will give Guo Qiushi a deputy division rank at the right time. After Guo Qiushi learned about this, the last bit of resentment towards Qin Hai disappeared in his heart, and he just waited every day for the official promotion notify.

"You have to stay for a few more days, but it should be soon, you have to believe in my promise." Qin Hai comforted.

"That's for sure, that's for sure..." Guo Qiushi quickly confessed, no matter how anxious he was, he didn't dare to blatantly urge Qin Hai.

After exchanging pleasantries, Qin Hai got to the point and asked, "Old Guo, I want to ask you something. What happened to that Ling Shijie? Where does he stand?"

"This..." Guo Qiushi faltered all of a sudden. Through the phone, Qin Hai couldn't see the "Southern Economic Guide" of the day in front of Guo Qiushi. Before Qin Hai called, Guo Qiushi was Worried about how to explain this matter to Qin Hai.

"Team Leader Qin, I want to make a review to you." Guo Qiushi said in a heavy tone, which is also the usual way of low-level officials to pretend to be dead. "You arranged for me to invite Ling Shijie to Xingchuan for an interview. I didn't do a good job in communication. , resulting in a serious deviation in the propaganda orientation, which is all my responsibility, and I am willing to accept..."

"That's all, old Guo, I don't mean to blame you." Qin Hai interrupted Guo Qiushi's long speech, the article has already been published, what's the use of talking about it at this time, what he wants to know is what Ling Shijie is thinking about How could a reporter who had exposed the shady scenes of Xiaogang suddenly change his face and become a sympathizer of Xiaogang?

"Group leader Qin, it's not surprising." After hearing Qin Hai's question, Guo Qiushi said, "In the past, our county didn't pay much attention to the governance of small iron and steel. .Now the working group is taking the lead in rectifying the small iron and steel enterprises. He is on the side of the small iron and steel enterprises. The core is to criticize the government’s meddling. Although it seems that the views are different on the surface, the core has not changed..."

"It's just that everything the government does is wrong." Qin Hai understood it all at once.

"Exactly." Guo Qiushi sighed. He may not be as smart as Qin Hai on other issues, but when it comes to dealing with reporters, he is experienced. Guo Qiushi knew what kind of bird Ling Shijie was.

For some journalists, it doesn't matter what the facts are, but how you interpret them. For example, a reporter went to an international summer camp and saw 5 Chinese children and 5 Japanese children in it. While the Chinese children were playing, the Japanese children were reading, so the reporter fell into deep thought: why our children are not creative, because They were playing while others were reading. A few days later, the Japanese children left, and 5 American children came. The Chinese children began to read, and the American children were playing, so the reporter fell into deep thought again: why our children are not creative, because they only know how to read, but do not know how to play It is the process of enlightening wisdom...

For the same news, a different angle can lead to different conclusions. If you haven't mastered this, how can you be a good reporter?

Ling Shijie is such a reporter with attitude. Last time he heard that the problem of small iron and steel in Xingchuan was very serious, so he rushed to expose the slander. In one report, 20% said that small iron and steel business owners, and 80% talked about how the provincial, city and county governments are slack and how to do it for the sake of GDP. And political achievements without regard to environmental protection, regardless of people's lives.

This time, he received an anonymous phone call, saying that the central working group had arrived in Xingchuan to clean up the small iron and steel in Xingchuan. At this time, his reporting angle completely changed. He believes that if the previous report is followed, it will become an article praising the government in order to cooperate with the actions of the Central Working Group, which has no news value at all. These days, if you want people to think you are a "conscience" reporter, you have to confront the government. If the government says to go east, the scenery in the west is more beautiful; if the government agrees to go west, you must say that the east is the right way.

With this in mind, the focus of Ling Shijie's interview this time is how the central working group enforced the law roughly, how the local people complained, and how the small steel owners couldn't stand the bullying. When he arrived in Xingchuan, just as Qin Hai led the law enforcement officers to seize the low-quality steel shipped from abroad, Ling Shijie witnessed many scenes of small steel factories in trouble, and accumulated a lot of material. When the villagers of Dongdaogou Village went to attack the checkpoint and staged various farces, Ling Shijie felt like a treasure.

The scene of the peasant woman holding the pesticide bottle was quietly photographed by Ling Shijie, preparing to use it as the title picture of the long newsletter. He even hoped that this picture would win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. When the peasant woman pretended to be dead and was exposed, Reporter Ling suddenly became temporarily blind, seeing nothing, seeing nothing, seeing nothing...

Qin Hai and Guo Qiushi didn't understand the details in the middle, but they already understood why Ling Shijie wrote the article like this. Qin Hai regretted it for a while. If he had known that Ling Shijie was such a person, he shouldn't have let Guo Qiushi expose the news. The Daqin Group has many "queen" reporters of its own. You can write anything. Putting aside the ready-made resources and not using them, he insisted on finding wild reporters, and Qin Hai deserved the slap in the face.

"Oh, I'm still too high school..." Putting down the phone, Qin Hai sighed and said to Zhang Xiangqian.

"Secondary two? What do you mean?" Zhang Xiangqian clearly had no concept of modern language.

Qin Hai didn't answer, but spread out the newspaper and began to read Ling Shijie's masterpiece:

"... 75-year-old old man Zhang counted the money at home. The money was no longer enough to buy a new school uniform for his little grandson. Since the small steel factory in the village was forced to stop production, more than 200 villagers in Hengpo Village The source of life was cut off at once..."

"...Director Liu sat in front of the reporter, his simple and honest face was full of sorrow. Back then, he started his business with a pair of iron anvils. After more than ten years of saving money, he finally built a small steel factory of his own. Factory, lived a good life for a few days. But who would have thought that a piece of notice on the management of small iron and steel broke his peaceful life like a bolt from the blue..."

"...It is true that small iron and steel has defects such as relatively high energy consumption and relatively large pollution, but it has supported the livelihoods of thousands of peasant households and fulfilled the entrepreneurial dreams of hundreds of peasant entrepreneurs. Is energy conservation and environmental protection words that officials love, are they really more important than the livelihood of ordinary people..."

"...the reporter doesn't know the stubborn peasant woman in the photo, but the reporter believes that if she hadn't suffered a great grievance, she, who is kind and gentle, would never leave her elderly parents-in-law and innocent and lovely child, and raised her hand in despair. Glass bottles full of highly toxic pesticides..."

"I just found out today that I have been working on materials for more than ten years. Compared with these reporters, I still feel ashamed." Qin Hai put down the newspaper and said with a sigh: "These reporters' mouths are made of special materials. , Turning hands into clouds, turning hands into rain, whatever words pass through their mouths, can change into a magical flavor."

"Isn't there no distinction between right and wrong?" Zhang Qiang looked more and more annoyed, wanting to jump up and tear the newspaper to shreds several times. People who have seen these steel products with their own eyes, who doesn't know that these small steel factories have no integrity at all, and they use fake and shoddy products to make illegal profits. Little sheep, is there any reason for this special meow?

"Team leader Qin, we need to report this matter to our superiors. The reporter is completely confusing black and white. This kind of reporting will cause a lot of passiveness in our work." Zhang Xiangqian reminded.

Qin Hai shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's useless to report it. These people are using the banner of freedom of the press. The more you greet them through the higher authorities, the more motivated they will be."

"Then what should we do?" Zhang Xiangqian was a little confused, "Look, he said that he will continue to follow up and report. I guess the bosses of those small steel mills will be more motivated when they see such reports."

Qin Hai thought for a few minutes, and then said: "I'll ask him to talk directly, and it's best to resolve it peacefully. If he insists on doing right with us..."

Speaking of this, he chuckled and stopped talking. It is true that journalists are uncrowned kings, but wealthy businessmen with hundreds of billions of assets are not vegetarians either. Even in Western countries that most advertise freedom of the press, when the media and capital wrestle with each other, how many can win?