Chapter 366: Critical Realist Literature
"Awakening" is a newspaper in California, USA that focuses on life services. However, the most core content of "Awakening" is not to publish life-related articles. "Awakening" is like his name, with a strong sense of criticality. Basically, every issue of "Awakening" will launch an article that criticizes reality.
Because "Awakening Miscellaneous" is accurate in positioning, this article with critical reality has attracted many people's attention once it was published.
Therefore, "Awakening" has become the top five newspapers in California in just five years since its inception.
However, recently, "Awakening" encountered a problem.
It turns out that several heavyweight critical literature authors who worked with "Awakening" have been poached by other newspaper institutions one after another.
This also made the Awakening Revenge lose its most core thing in an instant. The Awakening Revenge becomes just like ordinary newspapers and has no characteristics. This has also led to the sales of Awakening Revenge in recent times. If the Awakening Revenge still does not change much in the future, then the Awakening Revenge will inevitably fall out of the top five California newspapers.
Once "Awakening" falls out of the top five newspapers in California, for newspaper institutions like "Awakening" that do not have much depth, whether "Awakening" can exist in the future is a big question.
Yes, the newspaper industry has always been very competitive. Although the newspaper institutions that rank at the top of the sales list are doing well, this is just the surface. In fact, more than 70% of the institutions in the newspaper industry are not profitable, and even suffer large-scale losses.
At this time, "Obili", the founder of "Awakening", traveled back and forth in the office one after another.
"How about it, Hull, Daws, George, they are really not at all in love, right?"
"Boss, the California Evening News has offered them three times the price we have. I think they may not come back in a short time."
"Damn it, I knew we shouldn't have promoted the news business at the beginning."
The Awakening News said it was a newspaper, but it was serialized before. However, if the newspaper did not have news, no matter how well the articles in the Awakening News were written, it would not be able to sell to those popular news newspapers. However, once the newspaper was added to the news, then the funds he invested far more than the original magazine newspapers.
Obilly also saw that the Awakening News had grown rapidly in recent times. In order to be able to enter the top three California newspapers, he took a small gamble. But unexpectedly, after Awakening News made an increase in news business, three newspapers, California Evening News, California Daily and California News, took action instantly and poached the author of Awakening News at a high price.
This is the strength of old newspapers and magazines.
Obili regretted it after suffering losses. He hated why he was so anxious to enter the news business.
If he gave them three more years and three more years to stabilize, he would definitely be able to do better.
But it’s useless to regret now, the key is the author.
"Well, let's not think about these guys anymore, are some authors from other states connected with me?"
"There are connections, but some of their articles do not meet our requirements?"
"Take it to me."
"This is an article sent by these authors."
The assistant handed over the author's articles to Obili, who looked at them carefully.
In fact, there is no need to look closely. Just take a glance and Obilly will know what this type of article is roughly written.
"This is not good, it is written too romantically. We are newspapers, not magazines, and the core of our Awakening News is not mainly about romantic works."
Obili was also a literary youth, and had his own research on literary works. Although he knew that the best novels in the market now sell romantic literary works, they were just novels. They made newspapers, and newspapers needed to have topics. The most topical ones were critical literary works. This type of literature is very critical, vicious and ironic. Obviously, the type of article in the first article just now did not meet the requirements of "Awakening".
"This article is not good either. Although it is written in a critical type, it is too hidden and most people can't see it at all."
"This article is not good either. The irony is too light, which means itching."
“This article…”
After turning page by page, all the articles "Obilly" written by well-known authors were abandoned.
Alas, why is it so difficult to find a slightly better criticalist work?
"Boss, do you want to read the manuscript submitted by the new author?"
Seeing that Obili was a little crazy, the assistant reminded Obili.
"New author?"
Obili smiled bitterly, it was not that he looked down on new authors, but that many new authors did not know how to write at all.
This seems ironic, but it is actually that.
When many new writers start writing, they think that their writing style is good, and they think that others are not as good as themselves. However, when they actually write their works, you realize that their works are simply unsightly. Even if some of them have good writing styles, they will not get the attention of others because they do not understand the writing skills.
Not to mention this type of critical literature that is very difficult, even if it is a general romance work, newcomers may not be able to write well.
Of course, it is normal to write well, but new authors are like this. However, many new authors often cannot write well, but they don’t know that they cannot write well. Even many people often say that they write famous works, and what they write can be passed down for a hundred years.
Obili didn't even look at the works of newcomers like this, and threw them into the trash can.
Forget it, let's take a look.
In the past, I didn’t look at the newcomer’s submissions because it had signed authors, so it didn’t matter whether I read the newcomer’s submissions. But now, although I know that the articles written by the newcomer probably have no point, I really have no choice but to go and take a look. After all, who can say that literature is a sure thing? Maybe there is a genius among the newcomer’s authors.
Obili murmured to God's blessing, sometimes such literary genius cannot be judged by experience.
Holding the remaining expectation, Obilly entered the email address and selected emails from various new authors.
"This is also called an article?"
After reading the first article, I directly vomited blood by "Obilil" in anger.
Damn, this is simply an essay written by elementary school students.
OK, okay, this is the newcomer, this is the newcomer, Obili reminded himself.
"Do you think it's fun to talk to yourself?"
Another fork.
"This article was written correctly. Unfortunately, little brother, criticizing literature is not something that can be cursed. If such an article is published, it may be scolded to death by readers."
After reading dozens of articles in a row, Obilly kept shaking his head.
It seems that there is no thought.
A newcomer is a newcomer. Even if he has a genius, he probably won't be able to meet him.
Hey, this "The Imperial Envoy" is a bit interesting.
Obilly felt a little dizzy after denied nearly 100 new authors' contributions in a row.
In the end, a work called "The Inspector" caught Obilly's attention.
Chapter completed!