Chapter 350 Let’s Talk About Candidates

James, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle, is an old reporter. He can't even remember how many years he has worked in the news industry.

He only remembers that when he was very young, he was already a newspaper boy on the streets of New York. When James was a newspaper boy, the newspaper was still the authoritative mouthpiece of the world.

Whether it is the workers laying pipelines on the side of Fifth Avenue, or the energetic elite leaders dressed in the Empire State Building. They are all used to buying a newspaper every day and reading the content that is useful to them.

The smell of ink in those newspapers penetrated into the bone marrow like this, imprinted into James' soul and began to grow up with him.

Those flying and jumping words, those laughing and cursing brushwork. Those who dare to face authority directly and scold those in power of the U.S. government are a bunch of idiots.

There are also comments on current affairs and social care. Even whether the latest movie is good or not, the media has the final say.

There are many similar examples, in that era, the newspaper media had the final say.

In that era, journalists were crowned with the title of uncrowned king. Because they are the most authoritative mouthpieces, they have the most important right to speak in the world.

Hollywood movies want a good word of mouth to find them. A company needs a good word of mouth and needs to find them.

If it comes to an election year, those politicians will inevitably visit those social commentators who are extremely influential in the authoritative media. Ask them to say a few more good words for themselves, so that they can better win more votes.

The authority of journalists and the media has been rooted in the deepest part of James' soul since childhood, and has become an unshakable belief. So he made up his mind at that time that he must become an excellent reporter one day.

Become the uncrowned king of this world!

This road has been a bit hard, and it took him decades to finally create the Daily Bugle. The Daily Bugle became the largest print media organization in New York, even surpassing the New York Daily News.

Under the continuous efforts of James, this news empire has continuously expanded its territory. Whether it is website media or television, they are involved.

James, who was still a newsboy back then, has now become the helm of a news empire and an upper-class figure in this society.

But it's just that the longer the honor belt of the uncrowned king, James feels more and more that this title is gradually losing its appeal to him.

Yes, the uncrowned king is still uncrowned. The real crown must be crowned on your own head, that is what you want. And because of this sudden idea, James set his sights on the political arena.

The real power in this world must still step into the political arena, enter the parliament, and even enter the White House. Only this can truly be called the king of the world!

But to enter the political arena, he needs a suitable opportunity. After many mediations, Zams finally obtained the qualifications for the mayoral candidate of New York City.

This year's New York election, he is determined to win! The mayor of New York City will be his first step into politics. His goal is not only that, he also wants to go to a higher place.

But those are things for later, the key now is to take the first step firmly. You know, the importance of the mayor of New York City in the United States is even higher than that of the governors of many states.

If you want to win a fierce general election in this place, you need to spend some time. For example, what James is doing now is using smearing Spider-Man to create prestige for himself before the election.

The inspiration for this incident was brought to him by Captain America's lawsuit against the military.

When his informant at the police station inquired about a controversial case involving Spider-Man. With his keen intuition, James immediately thought that there were articles that could be manipulated.

So he quickly asked someone to contact the lawyer named Luka. Hope he comes forward to defend Mark McHonne. Put this matter on the legal agenda, and continue to expand the incident.

He wants to use Spider-Man's fame to be a stepping stone for himself.

James knows that if he does this, some Spider-Man fans will question him. But it doesn't matter, does it. Because not all New Yorkers are Spider-Man fans.

Politics is like this, when you are going to please some people, you will always need to abandon others. James calculated well. Everything including before is going fine.

Before the election campaign officially started, he gained a lot of attention and the support of a considerable number of citizens through his continuous slander and slander of Spider-Man.

This made him feel a little proud.

As for Spider-Man? What's the matter with him? James doesn't like Spider-Man, never did! He likes a war hero like Captain America, not a guy like Spiderman who causes trouble in the city every day!

As usual, James walked briskly to the building of the Daily Bugle at nine o'clock.

He is figuring out what kind of editorial he needs to write today in order to continue canvassing for his mayoral election. He didn't notice the strange faces of the surrounding employees looking at him.

Until he walked to the door of his office, his assistant, a young man in his early twenties who had just graduated from college, stopped him. "Head, what should we do with the things on the website now?"

The assistant seemed to be scratching his head, as if he had encountered something bothering him.

James, on the other hand, was at a loss. "Website? What website?"

"Of course it's the website of our Daily Bugle, don't you know?" Damn it! The assistant felt that he had spoken. It turned out that James didn't know about the website yet, and it seemed that no one informed him at all, because no one touched his bad luck.

But I didn't know it and bumped into it foolishly, damn it! This old guy will blame himself later, is he going to deduct my salary again? God! I haven't been paid my full salary for four months!

Last month he made an excuse to deduct my salary because I didn't wear a tie at work, but now that this happened, my salary this month will have to be deducted by this old bastard! The young assistant thought bitterly, he had already decided that he would start looking for a job soon.

Why! In a big city like New York, it is really hard to find a job for a second-rate university graduate like myself who did not graduate from a prestigious school! The assistant opened the mobile app, hoping to find a job in the same city.

And James walked into his office with questions, turned on his computer and logged in to the website.

The moment he entered the website, James quickly understood what the trouble on the website was that the assistant just said.

Just last night's gestation, the heroic short film released by Li Jie has already exceeded 50 million hits and views worldwide. Even many people across the ocean who didn't know the heroes of New York City at all began to pay attention to them.

And what Li Jie said in the video: The honor of a hero should not be a stepping stone for others. Many people are wondering what this sentence means.

Then some New York City citizens quickly thought that all heroes have opened Weibo, but Spider-Man has not. Moreover, some citizens who read the Daily Bugle also contacted about the troubles that Spider-Man has caused recently.

Lucar's complaint against Spider-Man, accusing him of violently imprisoning Mark Mehon was dug up by netizens and spread on the Internet.

Moreover, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle recently criticized Spider-Man.

Some things seemed to be nothing at the time, but I just couldn't help thinking about them. In particular, many netizens also have professionals.

For example, a retired old lawyer, he is very sensitive to the smell of politics. He found news that James had recently become a candidate for mayor of New York City.

With a professional intuition. He subconsciously felt that these things were not that simple. He spent two hours roughly discussing his guess.

I think this is likely to be a political show directed and performed by James, and the purpose is to warm up his upcoming election campaign. He wants to be mayor of New York!

This post spread quickly due to the popularity of the video. Political conspiracy theories and political dirtyness are almost instinctively disgusted by most citizens, and at the same time they have to be sure that such things must exist.

And it was another video that pushed the conspiracy theory to its climax this time. The clerk who got robbed, he posted a video of himself.

"I'm very guilty, I'm really guilty." The clerk's head was lowered, and his tone was very disappointed. "I watched the Spider-Man video and I thought I was wrong."

"I didn't realize until now that Spider-Man is also a mortal like us. He will be happy, he will be disappointed, and he will be hurt."

"He helped me, but I hurt him!" The convenience store clerk suddenly choked up while speaking. "The robber, Mark McHonne. He did rob my store! He made me open the teller machine under the pretense of changing change, and took the bills!"

"That twenty dollars was just something he forgot to take away, not real change!" The clerk's tone became very excited and generous.

"I'm sorry, Spider-Man. I was wrong. It was the man's defense attorney, a man named Lucar, who found me, and he knew I was in dire need of money to pay my student loans. He gave me $50,000 to change my words !"

"For the money, I didn't tell the truth when I gave my statement. I'm really sorry, I'm really sorry. You did so much for us, I call myself your fan, but I hurt you."

"After recording this video, I will go to the police station and turn myself in. Here I still want to apologize to you, Spider-Man, I'm sorry."

A two-minute short film caused an uproar on the entire Internet.

The truth of the whole incident is now almost revealed. Lucar almost certainly used illegal means to fight this lawsuit, and Mark Mehon's information was also dug out.

Because he was often drunk and made troubles, and also injured workers in the dock area, he had been fired by the dock long ago and lost his job. And there were several minor criminal records before. This is a complete bastard and poor ghost.

It is impossible for him to have the money to hire a barrister like Lucar, let alone fifty thousand dollars as hush money.

At this time, the spearhead of the whole incident was turned, pointing at the instigator of the political show, James, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle.

And now the Bugle Daily's website has been completely blown up. Numerous comments calling for an apology from James to Spider-Man circulated on the site. There are so many that network administrators have no time to delete them.

James slumped weakly in his leather seat. He still read in a low voice. "How could this be, how could this be."

And just as Li Jie said, the fun has just begun. These things are nothing more than spontaneous things done by netizens who support Spider-Man on the Internet.

Li Jie hasn't done anything yet. Just like his Frank said that day. Want to step on the hero's reputation and take Spider-Man as a stepping stone to the mayor of New York City. Go dreaming!

You must know that politics and capital are always inseparable. In New York City, there are two top rich men in the world, and the relationship between these two rich men and him is pretty good.

Therefore, Li Jie felt that he should go to Tony first to talk about the candidate for the mayor of New York City.