The Wolf of Los Angeles.

Chapter 80: Tempting People to Fall (Subscribe)
What if the freelance journalist's candid photos don't work? Hawke would tell him to let the stars do it again and we candidly shoot again.

Under his command, Steve and Wilson went up and down the stairs and into the cafe to chat, and Edward took the second shot.

Everyone returned to the temporary office, and Edward transferred the video to his laptop and made a copy immediately.

Hawke came to the laptop and clicked on two videos to play.

Several people stood behind him and watched.

Even Daisy was in a wheelchair and had Amanda push it over.

After all the videos were played, Hawke asked directly: "Which one do you think is better?"

Caroline was the first to speak: "The second shot was better, a complete candid shot."

Agent Biles agreed: "Without knowing it in advance, I definitely think it was a candid photo shoot."

Others echoed.

Hawke replayed the video of the second take and reviewed it again.

Steve whispered, "I acted well. Hey... what do you think? When I retire, can I follow Simpson's example and enter the entertainment industry?"

Daisy was furious: "Why, do you want to imitate OJ Simpson and kill his wife?"

Steve shut up and stopped talking. No one knew what he was thinking.

Hawke put away the notebook, handed it to Edward, and said to Caroline, "I'll leave it to you."

Caroline nodded slightly.

Hawke asked Edward to drive back to Los Angeles.

On the way, he called Megan Taylor: "Just got some big news."

Megan didn’t have any nonsense: “Come to my office.”

The car arrived at the Fox Building. Hawke went upstairs with his notebook and knocked on Megan's office door without saying hello to anyone.

Megan was waiting for him, so she quickly opened the door to let him in and asked, "Can I make the headlines?"

Hawke came to the reception area, sat on the sofa and opened his laptop: "$15 breaking news."

Megan sat next to him, staring at the computer screen.

Hawke clicked on the video and saw the shaking oval image, which was obviously a candid shot, with the camera always following a figure.

Megan quickly recognized him: "Steve Nutter from the Los Angeles Dodgers?"

Hawke said, “That’s him.”

Megan reacted immediately: "There was a report in the newspaper today that his wife Daisy is about to give birth. Did you take a picture of the child?"

Hawke said casually: "I have bottom lines and principles in doing things. How could I take photos of babies without the consent of their guardians?"

Megan couldn't help but turn her head to look at him, but was soon attracted by the video again.

The camera entered the coffee shop and aimed at the table where Steve was sitting. A bald black man appeared in the picture again.

The two men's voices were not particularly clear, but they could be distinguished.

Megan quickly captured the key point of the conversation between the two: Steve Nutter and Daisy Nutter's newborn was a test-tube baby, and the male's genetic material came from a bald black man, Steve's teammate Wilson.

This news was absolutely explosive, but Megan felt the conversation between the two people afterwards was even more explosive.

Steve used Wilson's genetic material not only for his own reasons, but also because many black teammates, including Wilson, had encountered various discriminations time and time again.

The Dodgers star wanted to use this method to support his teammates and fight against the lingering shadow of discrimination in the sports world.

After the video ended, Megan didn't say anything. She took the mouse from Hawke and played it again.

As in the past, she would pause when she encountered key points, and sometimes even go back to replay them.

Hawke waited for her to finish reading it and said, "$15. It's definitely worth it."

"It's really worth it." Megan turned her head and stared at him: "There is no trace of human design, but I know your style. Why is Steve Nutt so cooperative?"

Hawke said calmly: "Daisy gave birth to a black child. According to her, the father of the child is Steve's teammate Wilson."

Megan immediately understood: "Your business has been upgraded, are you doing public relations for the Nats?"

Hawke neither admitted nor denied it, but said: "You have always wanted to elevate the social depth of entertainment news. I designed this news specifically for you."

"Should I thank you?" Megan didn't need Hawke to answer, and continued: "A celebrity couple gave birth to a child, but the father of the child was a black friend, which became a hot topic of gossip. There was a sudden turn in the middle, and the protagonist who was ridiculed showed his brilliance of humanity, and his words and actions were unexpected. In the end, it was raised to a higher level and rose to the category of social issues."

“That’s a pretty good summary,” Hawke admitted.

Megan asked curiously, "Which university did you graduate from? Who is your mentor?"

Hawke is super thick-skinned: "Self-taught."

This is indeed the news that Megan wanted. Even though she knew that the news was artificially fabricated by the bastards around her, Megan still didn't want to give up.

Hawke guessed what she was thinking: "All the images and sounds are real. This is a real event."

He contacted Megan several times to understand what she wanted: "This incident can trigger a wave of public opinion, and you can report it continuously, including inviting Steve and his wife and Wilson to your show together."

Megan suddenly reached out and grabbed Hawke's arm: "You are Mephisto, specializing in tempting people to fall." She no longer hesitated: "You didn't tell me that, the video I saw is what I know, $15, I want the video."

Hawke made a new request: "Join the West Coast Media Entertainment Studios offer."

Megan hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay."

Hawke extended his hand: "Happy cooperation."

Megan shook his hand and made a new request: "You attend the program team meeting. If you have new ideas, you can add them."

Hawke responded, "No problem."

Megan stood up and walked to her desk, picked up the phone, and said, "Claire, bring the storage disk and copyright transfer agreement to my office, and have someone prepare a check for $15. Also, notify the heads of each department to have a meeting in ten minutes."

Claire arrived at the office soon.

Hawke copied the video, reviewed the agreement and signed it.

Ten minutes later, he followed Claire into the program team's meeting room and sat down in the most inconspicuous corner.

After the video was played once, the conference room was silent. Everyone present was no newcomer and realized the huge potential value of this news.

Megan is the one who has the final say in the program team: "All other news tonight will be removed. Only the video and its related content will be shown. Now I will assign tasks, and the assigned people will carry them out immediately."

She said quickly, "Claire, contact the Dodgers. Take a broadcast vehicle to the team immediately and find a manager or player, preferably a black person. I will connect live when the show airs."

Claire called a photographer and left the meeting room immediately.

Megan added: "Alexander, lead your people to search the Fox database to find all cases involving racial discrimination by the Dodgers and MLB in the past three years, as well as other cases in professional sports leagues. I need the most typical and well-known ones, preferably with videos."

A middle-aged man passed away.

Megan looked at a bald man and said, "Bill, please contact the NAACP. I want to connect with their black opinion leaders during the show."

The bald man almost ran out of the meeting room.

Megan said to a man with glasses, "Stephen, a copy that turns from sports gossip to racial discrimination, you start writing immediately. I need to see the first draft in two hours."

She turned her gaze to Hawke in the corner, "What about you? What do you want to say?"

Almost everyone on the show knew who Hawke was, so it was surprising enough that Megan asked him to attend the meeting, and even asked for his opinion.

"Give me a brief introduction to IVF." This is what Hawke thought of from Edward: "Many people don't understand it."

Megan nodded slightly and said to someone on the left: “Go collect relevant information.”

The meeting ended quickly and the program team became busy.

Hawke went to collect the check, said hello to Megan, and asked Edward to drive back to Orange County.

Before 11 o'clock in the evening, everyone gathered in the temporary office to watch "Midnight Entertainment".

Thanks to the extremely high ratings brought by Miller Collins' milk drinking scandal, many viewers across the United States are watching this show.

Especially in the greater Los Angeles area, the video had an explosive effect once it was released.

In the home of an ordinary Dodgers fan, the wife saw the show and shouted into the bathroom, "Oh my God, Steve Nutter's child is not his own. He used the genetic material of his teammate Wilson to make a test-tube baby for Daisy!"

The husband, who was taking a shower, didn't believe it: "It must be fake, right? Celebrities often make indecent remarks..."

"It's definitely not fake." The wife was convinced: "When Steve and Wilson were talking about this, they were secretly photographed by reporters!"

The bathroom door creaked open, and the husband ran out wrapped in a bath towel and stood in front of the TV to watch: "It was really filmed secretly, so it must be true. Oh my God, this is crazy. Are Steve and Wilson crazy?"

The phone rang at this time. It was a call from a friend from the same fan organization. The other party asked, "Have you seen the news about Steve?"

The husband said, “I see.”

"It's so explosive!" The man didn't doubt the authenticity of the video at all: "Well, the latest part, it turns out that things are not what we thought, Steve did it for the team!"

At the same time, several black players of the Dodgers were temporarily called to the club by the team's black manager and watched "Midnight Entertainment" in a conference room with Claire and a photographer.

Their emotions were like a roller coaster ride, from initial surprise, to anger at repeated discrimination in sports arenas, and then to shock at Steve's remarks.

"If a pure white family like Daisy and I can raise a black child and set an example, maybe we can help you!"

In the secretly filmed video, Steve's words were accompanied by noise, but they fell into the ears of every black person present.

The black manager was still calm.

But those black players are easily excited, and when they heard their star player say this, they were so excited that they couldn't control themselves.

Two of them even shed tears on the spot.

The tallest black man said, "It turns out that Steve is not just talking, he is really doing it."

The cameraman had already turned on the camera lens and captured this scene.

The video link from "Midnight Entertainment" has come.

These moved black people all appeared on the TV screen.

The team manager was very pleased with this and the team's reputation skyrocketed.

(End of this chapter)