Chapter 90 Making something out of nothing

So far, although the official website of the independent newspaper has just been launched not too long ago, the user base is still not as good as those of more well-known websites, such as Yahoo UK website and BBC website, but it currently has more than There are 50,000 registered users, and the number of daily visits is as high as 150,000.

For example, the BBC website has been established since 1994. Up to now, it has become a comprehensive website and one of the most visited websites in the UK and even Europe.

Therefore, the official website of Independent Newspapers, INDi.com, still needs to work hard to catch up. Adding more functions and providing users with richer and more attractive services is what they need to do now.

"Your Royal Highness, now many newspapers, including The Times and The Guardian, have also begun to try to reduce the size of newspapers and launch small editions of newspapers..."

When he met manager Bob at the newspaper office, he also told Barron about the recent trends in other newspaper groups.

Not only has newspaper space become smaller, but as far as he knows, many other newspapers also have plans to launch free newspapers. It can be said that although the independent newspaper industry is currently in a good situation, it will soon face more problems. Lots of competition.

To put it bluntly, traditional paper newspapers are themselves an industry that is declining day by day. When the cake becomes smaller and smaller, the competition to survive in it will become increasingly fierce.

This is the reason why Barron’s transformed the newspaper very early - just like in the previous life, the "Independent" finally officially ceased publication of the paper newspaper in 2016 and fully turned to online media. The helplessness of trying but not succeeding.

But now, what Barron has to do is to actively embrace the Internet earlier, so that independent newspapers can have their own place in the field of online media early. In this way, even if the business of paper newspapers shrinks in the future, It doesn’t mean you need to stop completely.

After all, Barron's main purpose in buying the Independent Newspaper was not to make money, but because of its influence on public opinion. However, even so, if it can maintain its influence on public opinion, the entire newspaper will not suffer losses. , and even some profits, and healthy development, that would be the best.

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"F**K!"

Barron threw the newspaper directly on the ground, and his mood immediately felt bad this morning.

Before his mood calmed down, his cell phone rang again. Seeing Bonnie's name on the screen, Barron immediately adjusted his mood:

"Baby, is your filming going well over there?"

"The past two days have been good. I told you before that there will be some minor problems, but they are not serious."

You can't tell much emotion from Bonnie's tone...

"That's great, I missed you, baby."

"Me too, dear, but today's "The Sun"..."

"Oh, I saw it too. You have to believe me, honey. I've told you about going to the art exhibition that day, haven't I? This kind of false news that attracts attention is what "The Sun" has always done. style, I am ready to ask a lawyer to sue them..."

"But you didn't tell me that you were going with that Miss Ella."

"Before I went there, I didn't expect to meet her. It was just a chance encounter. As for the photos in the newspaper, everyone was there at the time. We just gave an understanding hug, but those reporters from "The Sun" only took pictures The footage of the two of us was edited below. Regarding this, I was very angry after seeing it this morning!”

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The reason for the incident is that yesterday, Barron and Ella, the eldest daughter of the Kent family, participated in an art exhibition.

Speaking of which, many British nobles will design "art trading" business, and the same is true for the Kent family.

But in fact, most of the so-called "art transactions" are just selling some of the collections at home for economic reasons.

After all, now, the income of many noble families has dropped sharply. If they want to maintain their lives, they can only start with the collections accumulated by the families of past generations.

This kind of art exhibition can be said to be a warm-up for certain art auctions in the future.

What interests Barron is that there are many antiques from China and the works of some well-known painters.

For example, in this exhibition there is a painting by Titian - Titian was a great painter in the late Renaissance and is known as the father of modern oil painting. He is still highly respected in Europe.

In addition, this painting belongs to the Duke of Sutherland family. This family is mainly engaged in real estate and art transactions... Well, it seems that they have sold many things in the house before.

After Barron's explanation, Bonnie also expressed that she would believe him. Regarding Barron's plan to sue "The Sun", his girlfriend also advised him not to do so - after all, it is like "The Sun" 》Media like this may be hoping that Barron will take the initiative to sue them and make the matter bigger.

In this kind of news, they always use the tone of speculation such as allegedly, etc. in the wording of the report. Even if they need to apologize in the end, it is just a little bit indifferent. Compared with The exposure and sales gained were simply huge profits.

What Barron said to Bonnie before about suing "The Sun" was more of a gesture. He himself knew very well that doing so might play into the opponent's hands.

But this time, Barron would definitely not just let it go - if he really had something to do with Ella, he wouldn't say anything, and at most he would praise the other party for his superb skills.

The point is that he and Ella were really just socializing normally, well, at least that was the case yesterday.

So this report by "The Sun" is obviously a baseless slander and extremely hateful.

For the Sun newspaper owned by Murdoch, this kind of operation can be regarded as their basic operation. Otherwise, News Corporation will not be able to develop rapidly around the world. In addition to more advanced and efficient business methods, there is also the need to rely on the fact that if there is news, we must find ways to dig out it, and if there is no news, we must try our best to "produce" it. Eye-catching practices.

Not only Barron, but also the royal family has been arranged by them...

It is no wonder that in a few years, News Corporation will have a "wiretapping door".

In fact, News Corporation's "eavesdropping" has already begun. This is why Barron thought about "borrowing" an expert when he last met Sir Dearlove, the director of MI6. But I don’t want to be eavesdropped by the other party.

And it's not like he doesn't have evidence in his hands now. Now that he has entered the media industry, he will definitely prepare for this in advance.

For example, the Independent reported Scotland Yard’s mistakes in the London girl’s kidnapping case earlier this year. What was not mentioned was that the reason why Scotland Yard made such a major mistake in this case was that the girl had already been kidnapped. After the kidnapper killed her, he still thought the kidnapper was still alive because News Corporation, in pursuit of "exclusive reporting" on the case, secretly hired a private detective to hack into the girl's voicemail and eavesdrop.

And in order to get more information, the other party even privately deleted many voice messages after the voice mailbox was full, just to leave space to receive new voice messages.

It was this operation of the private detective hired by News Corporation that made Scotland Yard mistakenly believe that these were done by the kidnapped girl and concluded that she was still alive. As a result, it failed to adjust the investigation strategy in time and delayed the case. of cracked.