Chapter 789 Temporary Victory

Compared with Nancheng Daily, which was founded in 1997, Yilin was founded by Du Yishan in the first half of 1998 when Chang Haonan suggested it to publicize the quality crisis of Japanese enterprises. It has only been more than a year, so it is relatively young.

However, after all, it is positioned as an abstract journal. In other words, the content covers everything from national affairs to astronomy and geography to neighborhood gossip and trivialities, so the audience range is much wider than that of Nandu Daily, which only reports social news, so the readership is not much different.

What's more, Chang Haonan also has the support of Huaxia Youth Daily and central media.

In this era when television is the main form of entertainment, the influence of the 7 o'clock news is almost unmatched.

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

In the office of Nancheng Newspaper Media Group in Yangcheng.

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

"Yilin".

Everything started nearly half a month ago.

An intern editor below said that he had found a very explosive news that could expose the widespread academic corruption 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 for less than half a year, and it was very likely that there was a problem of poor fund management.

Of course, whether it existed or not, they certainly didn't know it while sitting in the air-conditioned room.

But it didn't matter.

As long as they could find a reason, it would be fine.

The good thing about this laboratory is that it was included in the pilot of industry-university-research cooperation, so the freedom of research projects is greater than that of normal research institutions.

Moreover, the "enterprise" in the school-enterprise joint happens to be a state-owned enterprise.

It is very suitable as their target of attack.

State-owned enterprises and universities colluded with each other inside and outside to embezzle research funds, resulting in a large amount of national funds being wasted but unable to produce useful scientific research results...

What a perfect topic.

As long as some small stories about how foreign scientific research institutions are strictly managed and practiced economy, and how foreign scientists are strict with themselves and indifferent to fame and fortune are added at the end, it will become an excellent report that "exposes the darkness of society and reflects on real problems."

In fact, even the South City Newspaper, in most cases, will at least check the content before publishing.

At least the flaws cannot be found too quickly.

But the situation this time is a little different.

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

The 50th anniversary celebration 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 in the public that believe that we can catch up with developed countries like Britain and the United States sooner or later.

This unrealistic idea is something Meng Yong is very reluctant to hear.

But he dares not to attack the National Day commemoration activities directly.

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

Secondly, the Torch Group has some private grievances with Meng Yong-

About a year and a half ago, he, who had just joined the South City Newspaper, personally wrote an editorial entitled "It is not advisable to "launch satellites" under administrative pressure", which was a wave of sarcasm against the newly established Equipment Industry Department.

As a result, Torch Group had a technical cooperation with an Italian company a few days later, and even sold the machine tools produced in China to Europe, which slapped him hard.

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

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

It was a photo frame.

It contained his editorial and a report about Torch-C.B. Ferrari Group's successful production of top-level machine tools.

This was a naked provocation.

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

Just kidding, he is the symbol of the fourth power of the media.

Even if some reports in the past were later proved to be false, few people would know it when the heat had long passed.

He was the only one who provoked others, and no one dared to provoke him.

Therefore, he had been waiting for an opportunity to retaliate against the other side.

And this time was obviously a good opportunity.

In fact, from the perspective of hindsight, it would be useless for Meng Yong to be more careful.

Before Chang Haonan's paper was published, even Tang Lintian didn't know about it.

Unless outsiders can directly contact Princeton Press, Richard Hamilton, or at least Tian Gang, they can't expect such a coincidence.

In short, Meng Yong just polished it a little and almost couldn't wait to approve the publication of the report.

At the beginning, it really caused a good response.

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

However, the good times didn't last long.

Just over a week later, and even before the topic of this report had completely cooled down, the Torch Laboratory suddenly came up with a result.

Although Meng Yong knew nothing about mathematics, judging from the specifications of the central media report, it seemed quite impressive...

This was very embarrassing.

If the reversal of this matter happened in a month, and everyone forgot about their report, it would not matter.

But now it happened to be stuck at this time point, which made them Nancheng Newspaper a complete clown.

Not to mention the unnamed criticism of Huaxia Youth Daily and the direct humiliation of Yilin Magazine.

That three-in-one picture was simply full of contrast, and the lethality was comparable to that photo frame of the year.

And this time it was open.

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 answered the phone irritably and roared into the receiver:

"What's the matter?"

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

"It's me."

Meng Yong immediately shrank:

"Ah...it's Editor-in-Chief Feng, you ordered..."

The other party obviously didn't have time to care about his attitude:

"Meng Yong, the superior department is very dissatisfied with your page this time, and asked us to issue a statement to withdraw the article and apologize immediately, and also to come up with a proper solution. You can handle this matter."

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

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

But for a media like Nancheng Daily, only a few senior executives are on the payroll.

Meng Yong is obviously not among them.

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

"Editor-in-Chief Feng, can you consider starting from the results of their publicity this time, such as questioning the value of that paper, or leading the rhythm in the direction of academic research?"

Editor-in-Chief Feng on the other end of the phone was directly amused by his wild ideas:

"Their paper was published in the Annals of Mathematics, which is a top journal published by the Department of Mathematics of Princeton University in the United States. You can question Beijing University of Aeronautics and the central media, but do you dare to question Princeton?"

Meng Yong was silent immediately.

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

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

For people like them, questioning the famous American school?

Don't even dare to think about it.

"Then..." Seeing that Meng Yong still didn't understand, Editor-in-Chief Feng was a little annoyed and immediately issued an ultimatum: "This matter has caused a big stir. I don't care what method you use. In short, you must identify a responsible person for me!" After saying that, he hung up the phone with a snap. This was very straightforward. If the person responsible is really to be identified, the first person to bear the brunt is him, the editor-in-chief of the page, and then the editor-in-chief above him can't escape, and then... That's it. Therefore, Meng Yong knew that he could only take another approach. Fortunately, this report was not written by him. Therefore, just put the main responsibility on the trainee editor. Others can only be regarded as poor supervision... Thinking of this, Meng Yong's heart, which had just been hanging, finally went back. Then, he picked up the copy of "Yilin" and stood up and walked towards the editor's office next door... ... ... The result of the handling soon reached Chang Haonan's ears. The South City Newspaper will publish a retraction and apology statement in the newspaper in the next three days, and the author who wrote the news has been fired by the publishing house.

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

The real behind-the-scenes manipulator could not fall because of such an incident.

After all, the actions of some countries to cultivate anti-thieves have lasted for more than ten or twenty years.

It is not just the South City Newspaper.

At least, compared with the results of similar incidents in the past where three glasses of wine were punished and then revealed, this time it was a good result to seize the opportunity of the other party hitting the muzzle of the gun and minimize the reputation of the South City Newspaper in the hearts of the melon-eating masses.

Chang Haonan knew very well that the struggle with internal and external enemies was a long-term process.

It is impossible to achieve success in one battle.

Moreover, for him, there are more important things to pay attention to at present-

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