American Scandal King

Chapter 50 Economic News is also News

Just as Catherine had judged, just one day later, another piece of news came out.

A new paint developed by an Auckland paint company exceeded the formaldehyde standard, but the Auckland paint company concealed the test results and tried to bribe officials to continue to promote the product on the market.

This was a serious problem. The market was in an uproar and the paint company's stock price plummeted.

A day later, new news came out, this time it was about Lino Bank expressing its distrust of Auckland Paint Company and was forcing it to pay back its debts.

All of them were first released by the Los Angeles Herald, and then followed up simultaneously by other media - this time Ian gave them to them for free. After all, what was needed this time was influence, not the selling price of the news itself.

After a series of news came out, the share price of Auckland Paint Company continued to fall.

What left Ian speechless was that the economic news this time had no effect on his eyes.

But on the other hand, the ability of the left eye has improved...not the experience value has increased, but the ability has improved!
"Bang bang bang bang!"

There was a continuous blast of gunfire at the shooting range.

Ian ran in the obstacle area with a gun, firing at the targets that kept appearing. The bullets accurately hit the eyebrows of each "gangster". After the bullets in the gun were used up, he quickly changed the bullets and continued to fire until all the targets were eliminated.

"Well done, Mr. Carl," the nearby shooting instructor exclaimed excitedly. "One minute and twelve seconds. 96 rings in stationary shooting, 83 rings in moving shooting. Hit the hostage twice, got hit once. You were a little impatient, but that's okay. You're not the police officer who's rescuing the hostages anyway."

"Reporters can also save lives. They carry the camera with their right hand and shoot with their left hand," Ian replied.

Ian put the gun down and sat back in the lounge area to drink a drink.

Confirmed, Left Eye's marksmanship has improved.

Not only his marksmanship, but also his copied electrical skills and lock-picking skills have improved, and he has a vague feeling of opening a fourth copy... According to the normal progress, only three copies can be obtained after the left eye reaches the maximum level.

This also made Ian finally understand.

The right eye can level up through violent news, and the left eye can level up through gossip and pornographic news... Level increase itself can bring about ability improvement, but there is a limit. Once you level up, you will gain new abilities, and the effects of old abilities will not be improved with the upgrade.

However, economic news can continue to improve the ability of the left eye and can even break through the upper limit of the ability!

By analogy, further improvement of the right eye's ability is likely to come through political news.

So, politics is linked to violence, and pornography is linked to economics?
This makes perfect sense!

This is why the last time I released the news about the bet with the client, the third copying ability appeared ahead of time, because that was also economic news.

So your own media will also be involved in political and economic reporting in the future?

………………

Los Angeles Herald newspaper.

When Ian arrived at the newspaper office, all the staff stood up and said, "Boss."

In just a few months, Ian brought about earth-shaking changes to the Pioneer, and now everyone in the newspaper, from top to bottom, respects him.

Ian nodded and walked straight to his office.

As soon as I entered the office, Ron Lloyd walked in: "The Los Angeles Times proposed to acquire our newspaper business. They said they could help us complete the bet."

Ian shook his head: "Reject them."

You just scolded me, and you still want to buy my business?
But that's what business is, that's business!

They may suppress you just to cooperate with you.

If this were rare in China, the bosses would yell, "You son of a bitch, you screwed me like this! I'd rather die than sell you!" In the United States, most business owners would respond by saying, "You screwed me, at least give me more money."

So Ian didn't bother to pay attention and just refused the matter.

Lloyd continued, "Touchstone Pictures wants to give us some of the publicity for Pearl Harbor, but they want to talk to you."

Ian sneered, "They're still being arrogant now. If they keep dragging it out, the price will be even higher later. By the way, the Pioneer needs to expand its news categories, especially the political and economic sections."

Lloyd was speechless. "The Herald isn't primarily focused on politics and economics. I think we should focus on entertainment for now. If it's too complex, users might not buy it."

Ian understood what Lloyd said, every media has its own strengths.

Now the Herald is good at violence and gossip. Most of their users are at the bottom of society and are not interested in political and economic news. The reason why the news about Okla paint made such a big fuss this time was not because of the Herald, but because Ian gave the news to his peers for free, and they amplified the effect.

Opening a section for this purpose will only make users dissatisfied: if you give me news that I don’t want, it means that I have wasted my money, and they will not think that this is a free gift.

Ian said, "But we have to get involved in this. Political and economic news may not reach a large audience, but it has a profound impact."

Lloyd knew about Ian's short selling and understood it instantly. He smiled and said, "We can use other media."

"Other media?" Ian's eyes narrowed slightly.

Maybe it's time to consider expansion.

He nodded: "Then don't open it for now, I will find a way to deal with it later."

Lloyd said, "Oh, there's one more thing. We found the company called Google."

Thank goodness the company didn't change its name.

Since the advantage of rebirth still exists, we must always take advantage of it. However, due to differences in time and space, some companies may have changed their names, and it will take time to confirm.

Ian asked, "Have you offered to invest?"

Editor-in-Chief Lloyd shook his head. "We did, but they turned it down. They just received an investment not long ago and don't need it right now. But I've already contacted them, and they'll let us know when they're ready for the next round of funding."

Ian nodded. "Okay. Remember to focus on this. Anything else?"

Lloyd said, "I'm the editor-in-chief, not your secretary, boss. I think it's time you find yourself a secretary."

Ian, the former second-generation rich man, wanted to arrange a secretary for himself as soon as he inherited the family business, but Lloyd persuaded him to stop and said that the small business should survive first, so why would he need a secretary?
But now that he had watched Ian rapidly develop and expand the Los Angeles Herald, the dear white-haired editor-in-chief no longer wanted to take on the secretary job.

Ian nodded readily: "Find someone capable... I mean capable, not bedding!"

Lloyd muttered, "This is completely contrary to what you originally requested. It's like someone's soul has taken over you. You're no longer yourself."

Fake!

Ian instinctively wanted to quibble.

Before he could explain, Lloyd laughed: "But I like the result."

Uh……

Also.

Who the hell cares about your soul?

What matters is that the result is good!
(End of this chapter)