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The head-to-head confrontation between Hugo and Anthony directly detonated the enthusiasm of all the media and made the entire entertainment circle lively.

This time, "US Weekly" reporter James Larter stole everyone's limelight, and James didn't expect that a friendly gesture to Hugo at the premiere of "The Final Analysis" actually played a year later. Power, for him to win the biggest breakthrough in his career.

After Anthony's press conference, James had an hour-long exclusive interview with Hugo on the same day, and then he used the title "sincerely apologetic, neither humble nor arrogant" to make the first time for the beating incident that attracted countless attention. report. Throughout the article, James explained the entire incident in a plain tone, impartially, and restored the scene as truthfully as possible, and then expressed his own views.

"Hugo was deeply aware of the mistake of his actions. He repeatedly expressed his sincere apologies for the act of beating Anthony, and offered to make amends to Anthony. As a public figure, Hugo knew that his actions were incorrect. , he is also trying to make up for the bad impact of this incident. We should condemn Hugo, but we should not blame him, at least we should see his sincerity and recognize his reformed attitude.

But on the other hand, behind Hugo's wrongdoing, are there more inside stories worth exploring? This is obvious. Anthony repeatedly slandered Hugo with bad language, which not only slandered Hugo's creative talent, but also maliciously accused Hugo that his creations were plagiarized, which has no basis and no meaning. He also made personal attacks on Hugo, maliciously distorted Hugo's response to the Golden Globes, deliberately created Hugo's so-called big-name rumors, and deliberately misinterpreted Hugo's private life, which is absolutely reprehensible the behavior of.

When journalists use the banner of 'right to know' and 'freedom of the press' to maliciously interpret public figures, this is within the scope of the law, but this is to protect the detached status of the media, not to become the media making news Tool of.

Obviously, Anthony took advantage of the principle of 'the media accuse public figures' from being bound by news facts, and made an unreasonable attack on Hugo. The purpose was not to verify the facts, but to anger Hugo, and finally achieve the breaking point of the news. Purpose. Anthony succeeded, and his bruises are the best proof that he won the attention, the sympathy, and the news.

While we blame Hugo for being mad at Anthony, we should also see Anthony's leading role in this incident, which is completely a prank directed by Anthony.

After the incident, Hugo was condemned, punished, admitted his mistakes, and accepted the facts. So, should Anthony also take the corresponding responsibility? When Anthony uses the freedom of the press as a weapon to attack public figures and seek huge profits from the press, this is a violent act in itself, and it should be absolutely forbidden! "

James' entire article seems to be impartial and righteous, and analyzes the entire incident based on facts, but in fact, after reading the entire article, it is not difficult to see that he is standing on Hugo's point of view and complaining for Hugo. However, James is smart, he did not blindly say good things for Hugo. After hitting fifty big boards on each side, he emphasized Hugo's correct attitude and condemned Anthony's bad intentions. Under such circumstances, the psychological balance of the people has quietly changed.

In fact, this is also the purpose of Hugo's decision to face Anthony directly, and now it seems that Hugo has already succeeded in half.

This issue of "U.S. Weekly" sold 300,000 copies in the United States in just one day. This achievement is comparable to the sales of other times in a week or even half a month. It can be seen from this data that this A Golden Globe Awards banquet brawl attracted attention.

Although Nicholas McClain missed the Hugo interview, that didn't stop him from speaking for Hugo in the latest issue of the Los Angeles Times.

"Hugo Lancaster sincerely apologizes, Anthony Stewart has no face to accept it." This long title is enough to attract a lot of attention.

In the article, Nicholas said, “Although Hugo knew he had fallen into a trap, he did not shirk his responsibilities, but bravely frankly confessed his mistakes, and proactively showed a friendly attitude of making up for it. In one sense, Hugo is forgivable. Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone has the courage to admit their mistakes, especially when someone else deliberately led you to make the mistake, it is harder to shirk responsibility than take responsibility Too much. Hugo's attitude deserves an award."

On the contrary, Nicholas believes that Anthony's behavior is a bad example of the reporter industry, because he maliciously used his rights, truly regarded reporters as "uncrowned kings", arbitrarily manipulated news breaking points, and achieved through slander, slander, provocation and other bad methods. The purpose of plundering news is the degeneration of news. When chanting the slogan "Restore the truth", it is to seek selfishness for "sales, money, attention, and reputation", which is definitely an insult to press freedom.

Nicholas even said righteously, "If Anthony does not face up to his own mistakes, this will be a starting point for the rot of the press."

Compared with James of "U.S. Weekly", Nicholas's attitude to speak for Hugo is very obvious, and he is completely speaking from Hugo's standpoint. But Nicholas came out on top, and he took the whole issue to the heights of journalism, which is also the smartest point.

Because under the suggestion of Nicholas, Anthony's impure motives turned Hugo's counterattack into "justifiable defense", which also turned Hugo's attack on Anthony into a means of self-protection. Not only did he not need to blame, on the contrary It should also be affirmed. Nicholas even repeatedly emphasized that even if Hugo was "justifiable defense", he still expressed his sincere apologies, and this humility is commendable.

It can be said that Nicholas sang the praises of Hugo by stealing the concept, and the ordinary people still paid for it.

The Los Angeles Times covered the Golden Globes a day earlier, and of course the brawl at the festivities—a paper in which Nicholas denounced Hugo and sold 1.7 million copies ; And a day later, Nicholas revealed the truth and clarified the facts for Hugo, and the newspaper sold a full 2.5 million copies in one day. This set of data is since the Rodney King incident last year. Top Sales in the Los Angeles Times!

Since the 1990s, the average daily sales of the "Los Angeles Times" has remained at about 1.5 million copies, and its development has stagnated. It remains above 2.8 million copies, but it has never been able to touch the 3 million threshold. Who could have predicted that this time, what seemed to be just a news breaking point in the entertainment industry actually made the "Los Angeles Times" sales reach 2.5 million copies, which is too unexpected.

From this aspect, it can be seen that this incident has received a lot of attention.

While "US Weekly" and "Los Angeles Times" have good things to say about Hugo, there are naturally other media outlets who hope to get a piece of the news.

While there are only a handful of media outlets willing to blatantly say good things about Anthony Stewart, in addition to the National Enquirer, several local newspapers view Anthony as just a conscientious reporter and Hugo as the embodiment of violence. They are all complaining about Anthony. But in addition, the attitude of more media is that they do not clarify the facts for Anthony, but they do not intend to let Hugo go.

Most of the media maintained a neutral stance, believing that Anthony was indeed at fault, but Hugo should not be fighting each other. This unbiased view prevailed, and it was a result of the painstaking efforts of Hugo and Joseph. At least, this view did not accuse Hugo too much, and Hugo's sincere apology was accepted by the public, which minimized the negative impact of this incident.

However, in addition to the neutral position, the media's attention has shifted from the beating itself to other focuses. To a certain extent, no one cares about Anthony's beating, and the media's attitude is more like "rain If the beating is wrong, but he has already apologized, so be it, we should pay attention to some other things." This kind of strange situation makes people laugh and cry.

Although it was not Anthony's wish that the beating incident was ignored, the media reporters complied with Anthony's wish and focused their attention on Hugo's big-name incident, which was also the biggest explosion in the beating incident.

Hugo's experience is really strange. The "Dead Poets Society" became an instant hit. Although it did not make Hugo really enter the front line, he did become a protagonist after that. From this point of view, Hugo was Put on a big-name pretense - movies that are not male protagonists are not accepted, so in the past few years, the news about Hugo playing a big-name role has appeared in the newspapers several times, and they are more or less in the circle. discussing.

And this time, after Hugo experienced a low point, he contributed two more wonderful works, and he reached the front line in one breath. He even went a step further and was recognized by the Golden Globe nomination for his acting skills. Now Hugo's situation is better than "Death Poems". Society" has improved a lot in the period since then. Under such circumstances, another big-name rumor has come out, and people have to think that Hugo's old "illness" has relapsed. This also made the statement about Hugo playing a big name not clarified at all, but it has sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain.

This was what Anthony wanted—though not the way he wanted, but not what Hugo could have predicted.