Act 94: The scale of public opinion begins to tilt
A purely mechanically operated newspaper typewriter looks like a Montenegro.
A machine over three meters high can see countless gears, belts, and transmission structures from top to bottom.
The dirty lubricant echoes the ink, and Blair stands in front of the machine and skillfully types the news content on the keyboard.
If it is really customized from the manufacturer, such a newspaper layout machine will not only be very expensive, but it will not be able to be used so quickly.
The newspaper typewriter in front of me comes from the bank.
It's not New Haven Blackhawk Bank, but a bank with headquarters in another place. Doug heard it several times but still didn't remember his name.
In this era, there are few so-called credit loans. Basically, if you want to get a loan, you always need to pay something.
The unlucky newspaper in another place chose to expand mortgages at an inappropriate time, and the final consequence was that the mortgage was sealed by the bank, which made Blair cheaper.
Although in Doug's opinion, the newspaper layout machine has a low degree of automation and is stupid to use. If you type a letter incorrectly, you need to remove the entire row of text.
However, even such a machine is far more efficient than the previous manual layout. It is one of the cornerstones that newspapers can proliferate in this era.
As a senior media person in this era, Blair not only writes reports quickly, but also operates such machines very quickly.
Under his conspiracy, the newspapers were arranged quickly.
The paper is fed into the drum, shake the crank, and ink is printed all over the paper. The newspaper with a special smell is freshly released.
"Boss, look." Blair held the newspaper that Moji had not yet dried in his hands and walked to Doug and showed it.
Doug's eyes moved from the typography machine to Blair, and then from Blair to the newspaper.
The first page of the newspaper is under the name of the dark and thick "New Haven Times" flower-style newspaper, which is the news title of "From the Death of a Small Factory Owner to the Life of a Little Shoewir".
This news is long and long.
Starting from the origin of Smith Printing and Dyeing Factory, during the period, he talked about the various actions of the Printing and Dyeing Factory, and finally wrote that he borrowed money everywhere and eventually went bankrupt.
Then, he wrote that because of his credit problems, no one took over his factory. In the end, the person who took over his factory was attacked by him and he was shot dead.
Always remember that as long as it is written by people, there will be subjective emotions.
As for a news article, a poor reporter can look mixed with an article that feels like it is not mixed with personal emotions; a high-level reporter can make a report that slowly makes it look really neutral and objective.
Blair is obviously the latter.
Although his entire report, literally, is protecting Smith, any reader will be disgusted with such a guy who is untrustworthy and does not abide by business ethics.
However, it is not Blair's purpose to make readers disgust with a dead person.
Blair's ultimate goal is to drive the readers' emotions, let them empathize with the last businessman who bought the factory and his followers, and start to sympathize with them.
After this front page headline, there is another news titled "True and False Monopoly".
In this news, the origin of "Monopoly" and two ways of playing Monopoly are introduced.
The inventor of the game was the business owner who took over in the previous article. After he took over the Smith Printing and Dyeing Factory tragically, his "Monopoly" was ruthlessly copied.
The imitator is unscrupulous and suppresses and bullies him through various means.
He cut off his dye purchase channels; poached the core technical workers in the factory; and cut off the sales channels through dirty means.
The factory owners fought back step by step against all kinds of difficulties.
If you can’t buy dye, you will make it yourself; if the core technical workers are poached, you will train new core technical workers; if you lose sales channels, you will use newspaper boys to form new sales channels.
Although my position in this article is very obvious, it does not make people feel disgusted.
Instead, it can create a feeling of unity against the enemy.
Even...it makes people feel that the protagonist of this article is simply a hero.
That's right, the two articles on the first page are used to praise Doug.
After reading it, Doug was not humble, but instead exaggeratedly, "It's well written."
As for the other seven pages, the content is more traditional. It is just a very common announcement and discussion on some current hot issues in the New England and New Haven areas.
Doug looked at it all and felt that the overall quality was above the standard.
After nodding slightly, Blair began to print the newspaper with all his might.
The next morning, residents in downtown New Haven discovered that the newspaper boy who originally only sold "Monopoly" actually started selling newspapers.
Some people are amazed at this.
However, some people also said, "What's strange? Aren't they just newspaper boys?"
"What newspaper are you selling?"
"New Haven Times!"
"New Haven Times? I only know the New Haven Daily. Forget it, let's get one." The buyer has never heard of the New Haven Times' name, but only knows the New Haven Daily.
However, when he got the New Haven Times, he found that the newspaper, with a total of 001 issues, seemed to be no different from the New Haven Daily.
It seems to be just cheaper and less advertising.
But from the report to the layout style, it is so familiar.
However, if people who say these things are just occasionally reading newspapers, they can't say them.
Only senior newspaper readers suddenly realized when they saw the editor-in-chief’s name, “Oh! Isn’t this the editor-in-chief of the New Haven Daily?”
From the sunrise just now to the sunrise to the highest, the two reports in the first edition finally became topical.
For normal news reports, detailed time, person, and location should be added to the reports.
But Blair deliberately did not write it all.
Strictly speaking, it is more like two stories than news reports.
But for Blair, whether it is news or stories, his purpose will be achieved as long as they can arouse discussion.
"Hey! Do you think this really is the Clayton Monopoly with the dog head? That printing and dyeing factory... is it the Clayton Printing and Dyeing Factory?"
"My God! I heard that Clayden was a defendant two days ago! The person who sued him was Smith's wife. If... it was really as the newspaper said, the Smith family would be too bad! I heard that Clayden's follower was sentenced to death!"
"Are you saying true? Smith is so bad! The Smith family is all big bad guys!"
"Mitos is also a big bad guy!"
"Yes! Mitos, who pirated "Monopoly", is also a big bad guy!"
The people who thought that the "Mitos" of Mitos Manufacturing Company were named also began to criticize.
The public opinion's Libra began to tilt towards Doug.
"We want to buy dog head "Monopoly" to support Clayden!"
Chapter completed!