Chapter 143 Little Arthur Is Here (Happy Chinese New Year!)

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The elegance of the emp restaurant has an old-fashioned majesty and grandeur. The restaurant is dotted with blooming peach blossoms everywhere. Outside the lattice window is Madison 11th Avenue. The cuisine is new American cuisine. Another major feature of it is at the table. The cooking performance can clearly let customers see the chef's care for the ingredients, which can be said to be another visual feast while enjoying the food.

Under Eddie's introduction, Yang Cheng greeted little Arthur with a few words, and together with his assistant, the four of them sat on both sides of a long dining table, and the first seat in the middle was vacant, which was a guest invited by Yang Cheng It’s not here yet, but after asking Little Arthur’s favorite ingredients, emp chef daniel humm pushed the mobile cooking table to the dining table to perform a cooking show for Yang Cheng and the others.

The chef sprayed white wine into the pan, and when the alcohol met the fire, it ignited a bewitching blue flame, but except for little Arthur's assistant, the swaying flame did not arouse the interest of Yang Cheng and the other three.

"Arthur, as the CEO of the New York Times, no one knows better than you. In the past, you could rely on your one-step digital news to survive. Now that the headline app is squeezed, the online version of the New York Times still has room to survive. Is it?" Yang Cheng took the lead in attacking, pointing out the plight of the New York Times when he came up, so that little Arthur could recognize his position and not have any illusions.

"Young man, why do I have to sell it to you? Amazon's Bezos also proposed to me an acquisition." Little Arthur is not a vegetarian either. Seeing that the momentum of the scene was biased towards Yang Cheng, he decisively took out the big devil as a shield .

As the cooking show on the dining table came to an end, Yang Cheng smiled lightly, "Your name and surname, Arthur Hayes Schulzberger, once said a famous saying that a person's judgment cannot surpass the basis of this judgment." Information, I think it makes sense. In your opinion, New Times Media is not qualified to acquire the New York Times, but in fact, there is no soil more suitable for the production of New York Times than New Times Media. Don’t forget that Bezos already has The Washington Post, the New York Times are not essentials to him."

Little Arthur was silent, and his frowning meant that he was in deep thought. Yang Cheng continued to add fuel to the scene, "You are also an industry insider, and the outside world can't see Bezos' purpose for acquiring the Washington Post. We still have to look at it." Can't come out?

The original news business owned by The Washington Post is exactly what the digital publishing business owned by Bezos needs. As the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, the two businesses complement each other. Content sales are showing a growing interest.

Speaking of which, Bezos' greatest contribution to the world is that he changed the way people read by selling Kindle readers, and announced the advent of the electronic publishing era. Now Bezos has tens of millions of reading end users and has his own As for payment channels, what he desires most is original content.

And his intention to acquire the New York Times is nothing more than to supplement the shortcomings of the Washington Post in the field of people's livelihood.

Once the New York Times is acquired by him, reorganization, reform, and layoffs will be the three things he must do. By then, the century-old New York Times will no longer exist. Your little Arthur will become the Schulzberg family. sinner! "

Yang Cheng said these words not to alert little Arthur, but to remind him to see the situation clearly.

It’s true that traditional media have to find their own way out. For example, the New York Times developed an online version early, so the New York Times is also one of the few survivors in the first wave of bankruptcy of traditional print media, but the digital giants will never Stand by and watch, especially those digital giants that essentially rely on "content" for food, such as Amazon, Facebook, and Ahri in country Z.

In the English word 'neer' of a newspaper, the core part is not 'paper' (paper), but 'news' (news).

But news cannot only refer to news content, it refers more to the organization and production of news content, which is a kind of news productivity and news production organization.

Some people may not care about the demise of newspapers, thinking that paper is dead and news will live forever, but in fact, once the entire newspaper industry declines, its employees, professional ethics, reputation, and production traditions will all be scattered.

Once the practitioners disperse and become so-called self-media people, scattered in all corners of the Internet, it will be very difficult for the media giants to gather them together; and once the traditions of the news industry are dispersed, it will be almost impossible to gather them together. Probably, because this is an industry that has experienced peaks, declines, and various hardships for hundreds of years before it developed.

It was also mentioned in the previous article. Gu Yanwu said in "Rizhilu", "There is a subjugation of the country, and there is a subjugation of the world. Distinguish between the subjugation of the country and the subjugation of the world? It is said: Changing the surname to change the name is called the subjugation of the country. Benevolence and righteousness are full, and the beasts cannibalize people. People Cannibalizing each other is called the destruction of the world.” With the development of technology, the death of the newspaper as a news carrier is nothing more than the death of the country, but if the tradition of the press is cut off from now on, it will be tantamount to the death of the world.

From this perspective, the sooner and deeper the digital giants intervene before the traditional media disintegrates, the better.

Because with the decline of traditional media, the old media forces can no longer take up the responsibility of defending media traditions and orthodoxies.

The New York Times' so-called Internet is nothing more than a digital reprint based on traditional newspapers. It does not have the characteristics of the new era Internet at all. It is rigid, not free, and not communicable. To give a vivid example, it is like an 80 The old man was reborn to be 70 years old. On the surface, he looks 10 years younger, but what is the actual use? Do you still have the physical condition to enjoy after earning money?

Therefore, when Yang Cheng said that the online version of the New York Times would be gradually eaten away by the Toutiao app, it was not sensationalism, but reality.

"The New York Times is in your hands, what will you do with it?" Little Arthur's clenched teeth loosened.

Yang Cheng chuckled and shook his head, "What you worry about will never happen. The Washington Post's market is all over the United States, while the Los Angeles Times has a large influence, but it is only limited to the West Coast. It just complements the New York Times. One east and one west. , the online editions of the two newspapers will focus on the only carrier of the Toutiao app.”

"Jason is right. Little Arthur, you can really think about it and use a large amount of cash to invest in other businesses, and I will persuade Jason to buy the New York Times with cash plus shares in New Times Media."

Yang Cheng turned around when he heard the sound, it was Bill Ackerman, wearing a sharp Armani high-end suit, his silver hair was combed meticulously, and his blue pupils exuded the light of wisdom. He didn't know when he stood behind Yang Cheng, and no one at the table noticed. , "Bill, when did you arrive?"

"Hehe, I've been here for a while, and your interpretation of traditional media is very meaningful. I want to poach you to my company." Bill Ackerman replied, sitting in the first place without hesitation.

"Don't be kidding, I don't want to be ashamed of my half bucket of water. Who doesn't know that even the cleaning aunt of the famous Pershing Square Investment Department graduated from a prestigious school." Yang Cheng turned sideways and asked the waiter to go up Food, compliments come as soon as you open your mouth.

"You're just kidding. What do I want a cleaning aunt who graduated from a prestigious school? Could it be that the floor from a prestigious school has just been wiped clean?" Bill Ackerman nodded Yang Cheng empty-handedly, he was speechless after the joke.

Today, Bill Ackerman was called by Yang Cheng to play the role of his shareholder, mainly to suppress the market and put psychological pressure on little Arthur Schulzberg. Yang Cheng alone could not do this, after all, he still had young.