Chapter 789 Temporary Victory

Compared with Nancheng News, which was founded in 97, Doubletree was founded in the first half of 98 by Chang Haonan on the suggestion of Du Yishan in order to publicize the quality crisis of Japanese companies. It has only been more than a year now, and it is still relatively young. .

However, after all, it is positioned as an abstract journal. In other words, the content covers everything from national events, astronomy, geography, to neighborhood gossip. Therefore, the audience range is much wider than that of Nandu Daily, which only reports social news. Therefore, the readership is not the same. No disparity.

What's more, Chang Haonan also has China Youth Daily and the Central Media Station in this wave.

In this era when television is the main means of entertainment, the influence of the 7pm news is almost unmatched.

Therefore, in fact, from the moment Chang Haonan decided to launch a counterattack, the outcome was already doomed.

Yangcheng, in the office of Nancheng News Media Group.

Senior editor and reporter Meng Yong looked at a magazine in front of him with twitching eyelids.

"Double Tree".

Everything started nearly half a month ago.

An intern editor below said that he found a very breaking news that can expose the widespread corruption in academic circles in China.

He briefly checked the manuscript written by the other party and found that the target was a school-enterprise joint laboratory that had just been established less than half a year ago. It was likely that there was a problem of poor fund management.

Of course, they definitely don't know whether it exists or not, sitting in an air-conditioned room thinking about it.

But that doesn't matter either.

As long as we can find a reason.

Fortunately, this laboratory has been included in the pilot project of industry-university-research cooperation, so the degree of freedom of research projects is greater than that of normal research institutions.

Moreover, the “enterprise” in the school-enterprise alliance happens to be a state-owned enterprise.

Very suitable for their attacks.

State-owned enterprises and universities collude internally and externally to embezzle research funds, resulting in a large amount of national funds being consumed but no useful scientific research results being produced...

What a perfect topic.

As long as you add some short stories at the end about how strict management and economy are implemented by some foreign scientific research institutions, and how strict foreign scientists are in self-discipline and indifferent to fame and fortune, it will become an excellent report that "exposes the darkness of society and reflects on real problems."

In fact, even Nancheng Daily will at least check the content before publishing in most cases.

At least the flaws can't be seen too quickly.

But things are a little different this time.

First of all, Meng Yong was in urgent need of a report on this topic.

The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the beginning of last month was very effective, especially the military parade, which greatly improved the self-confidence of the people.

There are even voices among the public that believe that sooner or later we can catch up with developed countries like the United Kingdom and the United States.

This kind of unrealistic idea is something Meng Yong doesn't want to hear.

But a direct attack on National Day commemorations…

I don’t dare.

Therefore, he believes that it is necessary to dig out some real news hidden under the surface of prosperity to calm people down.

Secondly, the Torch Group has some private disputes with Meng Yong——

About a year and a half ago, when he had just joined Nancheng Daily, he personally wrote an editorial entitled "It is not advisable to "launch satellites" under administrative pressure", which was a wave of cynicism towards the newly established Equipment Industry Department at that time.

As a result, Torch Group entered into some kind of technical cooperation with an Italian company within a few days, and even sold machine tools produced in China to Europe, giving him a slap in the face.

If it was just like this, that would be it. Meng Yong had long been used to similar things and didn't care about being slapped in the face.

However, a few days later, he received an anonymous email.

is a picture frame.

It contains his editorial and a report on the Torch-CB Ferrari Group's successful production of top-level machine tools.

This is a naked provocation.

Meng Yong smashed the photo frame on the spot and threw it out.

Just kidding, he is a symbol of the fourth estate of the media.

Even if there were some reports in the past that were later proven to be false, few people would know about it now that the heat has long passed.

He is the only one who provokes others, and no one has ever dared to provoke him.

Therefore, he has been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on the opponent.

And this time is obviously a good opportunity.

In fact, from the perspective of hindsight, even if Meng Yong is careful, it will not be of much use.

Before Chang Haonan's paper was published, not even Tang Lintian knew about it.

Unless outsiders could directly contact the Princeton Press, Richard Hamilton, or at least Tian Gang, they would never have predicted such a coincidence.

In short, Meng Yong only polished it slightly and almost couldn't wait to approve the report for publication.

At the beginning, it really aroused a good response.

So much so that he rewarded the intern editor with a bonus of 500 yuan.

However, the good times did not last long.

Just over a week later, before the topic triggered by this report had completely cooled down, Torch Lab suddenly came up with a result.

Although Meng Yong knows nothing about mathematics, judging from the specifications reported by the central media, he seems to be quite powerful...

This is very embarrassing.

If this incident turns around a few months later in the evening and everyone forgets about their reports, that's fine.

But now that they are stuck at this point in time, they have turned into clowns in Nancheng.

Not to mention the subsequent unnamed criticism from China Youth Daily and the direct humiliation from DoubleTree Magazine.

That three-in-one picture is simply full of contrasts, and its lethality is comparable to that photo frame from back then.

And this time it’s public.

Several times, Meng Yong wanted to tear up the magazine in his hand...

At this moment, the phone in his office suddenly rang.

Meng Yong picked up the answer irritably and roared into the receiver:

"what's up?"

As a result, a deep voice came from the other side of the phone;

"it's me."

Meng Yong immediately shrank his eggs:

"Ah...it turns out to be Editor-in-Chief Feng. Your orders..."

The other party obviously has no time to care about his attitude:

"Meng Yong, the higher authorities are very dissatisfied with your publication this time and require us to immediately issue a statement retracting the article and apologizing, and also come up with a proper solution. It's up to you to handle this matter."

In fact, if the system has been mixed for a long time, you should be able to hear the implication of this sentence, which has already defined this matter.

And "proper resolution" does not refer to the matter, but to clarifying the specific responsible person.

But for a media of this nature, Nancheng News, only a few senior executives are on staff.

Meng Yong is obviously not among them.

Therefore, he thought that things could still turn around, so he spoke out the "remedial measures" that he had been thinking about for a long time:

"Chief Editor Feng, can you consider starting from the results of their publicity, such as questioning the gold content of that paper, or bringing some rhythm in the direction of academic continuity?"

Editor-in-Chief Feng on the other side of the phone laughed angrily at his unbridled thinking:

"Their paper was published in the Annual Journal of Mathematics, which is a top journal published by the Department of Mathematics of Princeton University in the United States. You can question Beijing Hang University and the Central Media, but do you still dare to question Princeton?"

Meng Yong suddenly fell silent.

Although he didn't know what the level of Mathematics Annual was, he had heard of Princeton University.

One of the eight Ivy League schools in the United States.

For those of them, questioning America’s prestigious schools?

Can't even think about it.

"That……"

Seeing that Meng Yong still didn't understand, Chief Editor Feng was a little annoyed and immediately issued an ultimatum:

"This matter has caused a big fuss. I don't care what method you use. In short, I must identify the responsible person!"

After saying that, he hung up the phone with a bang.

This is already very straightforward.

If we really want to clarify the person responsible, the first person to bear the brunt is him, the editor-in-chief of the page, and then the editor-in-chief above cannot escape, and then on...

Then it's over.

Therefore, Meng Yong knew that he could only adopt another approach.

Fortunately, this report was not written by him.

So, just put the main responsibility on the intern editor.

Others can only count it as poor supervision...

Thinking of this, Meng Yong's heart that had just been hanging was finally put back.

Then, he picked up the copy of "Double Tree", got up and walked towards the editor's office next door...

……

The results of the processing quickly reached Chang Haonan's ears.

The Nancheng Newspaper will issue a retraction and apology statement in the next three days. The author who wrote the news has also been fired from the publishing house.

Of course, he could also guess that the person being dealt with was just a scapegoat.

The real manipulator behind the scenes cannot possibly fall because of such an incident.

After all, some countries have been cultivating rebels for more than ten or twenty years.

It's more than just a Nancheng newspaper.

At least, compared to the previous results of similar incidents that resulted in three drinks of fine for drinking, this time it is good to seize the opportunity of the opponent hitting the gun and minimize the reputation of Nancheng News in the hearts of the melon-eaters. result.

Chang Haonan knows very well that the struggle against internal and external enemies is a long-lasting process.

It is impossible to accomplish all the results in one battle.

Moreover, for him, there are already more important things to focus on——

The J-10B fighter jet equipped with a mass-produced turbofan 11A engine is about to make its first flight.