Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 132: Attitude
Subtitle of this chapter: Chinese people with the potential to become great financiers
The suspects in the Wall Street bombing certainly didn't know that they had backfired.
The editor-in-chief of Le Monde was not sure whether he would end up making things worse if he followed his daughter's advice.
Mr. Herbert Pulitzer certainly understood what it meant to "seize the initiative", which was to be a newspaper with "attitude".
Regarding the concept of “having attitude”, let me give you an example.
In the early morning of April 15, 1912, when the Titanic was sinking, it sent out a telegram for help. At the same time, major newspapers on the East Coast of the United States also learned of this telegram. However, no one believed that this most advanced cruise ship at the time would sink, so they did not dare to report it in the morning newspaper.
Only Carl Van Anda, the editor-in-chief of The New York Times, ordered the news of the sinking of the Titanic to be published on the front page in the largest 16-point font the next morning. Moreover, the time and place he estimated were almost exactly the same as the facts.
The reason why he had such confidence was that he was an excellent science student despite his liberal arts career. He used triangulation to calculate the location of the last telegram sent by the Titanic and compared it with the telegrams of other ships. Only then did he make the decision to release this exclusive news first..
Reports in other newspapers at the time were neither complete nor conclusive.
Look look, this is called “having attitude”.
Let's put it this way, after Yuan Yanshu was arrested today, just like the Titanic incident, the major newspapers would definitely not rashly take sides at the beginning. Because they cannot bear the consequences of reporting errors, they will report this matter with a cautious and neutral attitude.
But in this way, these newspapers naturally lack a bit of attitude, and readers are not satisfied with reading them.
Maybe it sounds a bit harsh, but the fact is that readers in 1920 or a hundred years later don't like to use their brains.
Well, from a physiological point of view, humans are not intelligent creatures that are willing to actively expend their brain power, especially wasting energy on things that have nothing to do with themselves, which is very uneconomical for survival.
If there really is a Creator, this is how we were when He "designed" us, and we can only blame Him.
Therefore, writers who force readers to think are making things difficult for the Creator and Xiao Qianqian...
This is why the media can easily dominate public opinion, because readers wait obediently for the media to give a conclusion. If you don't give a conclusion, they are too lazy to think about it. The problem is that when they find that the media's conclusion is wrong, they don't think they are stupid, but only blame the media for not being professional enough... Well, this sounds familiar.
Therefore, to be a media with "attitude" does require weighing the pros and cons, and it is not that simple.
The editor-in-chief of Le Monde is well aware that standing on the side of the Chinese in advance also means standing against others... well, actually against many people.
"Tap, tap, tap."
Just then, someone knocked on the door.
"Come in."
It was one of Mr. Pulitzer's secretaries who came in and said respectfully, "Mr. Pulitzer. Mr. Louis Baker is here to see you."
"Ah, Mr. Baker? Come on, then!"
"Hello, Louis."
"Hello, Mr. Pulitzer. Oh, and Miss Pulitzer."
Emma nodded to Mr. Baker and said, "Then you guys chat first. I'm going to go out and do something."
Louise also responded politely: "Miss Pulitzer, please go ahead."
After his daughter left, the editor-in-chief said enthusiastically, "Louis, you are a rare guest. Please take a seat."
"Thanks."
Mr. Pulitzer looked at the "rare guest" who looked a little anxious, and asked directly: "Louis, I think you came to me for your friend?"
"Yes." Mr. Baker nodded and said, "But is this also what my grandfather meant?"
"Your grandfather?" Mr. Pulitzer asked suspiciously, "Does he know this Chinese man, too?"
"Yes, my grandfather not only knew Neo, but also admired him very much."
This morning, Louise Baker found a car and took Miss Brown and Miss Pulitzer to the New York Metropolitan Police Department on Manhattan Island. However, none of them could get in, so they had to wait outside.
A few hours later, he received a letter from John's assistant, a letter written by Neo himself.
After reading the letter, he was as surprised as John, but at this time "Watson" had some kind of "blind" trust in "Sherlock Holmes".
So after he sent Miss Helen Brown home, he went straight to his grandfather's office on Wall Street, of course, to ask for help for his good friend.
The "thunderous rescuer" he found, Mr. George Baker, couldn't help but fall into deep thought after listening to his grandson's introduction and reading the letter.
Mr. Baker was the first to not believe that this bragging young Chinese man was the radical who created the Wall Street BOOOOM. He would rather believe that Yuan Yanshu was a big liar like Charles Ponzi.
The Ponzi scheme, known as the "root of financial fraud," was exposed . The Italian who "could invent money" filed for bankruptcy in March this year and was thrown into jail.
In one year, he cheated more than 40,000 Bostonians, and the amount was as high as 15 million US dollars. However, our Yuan Da only cheated 400 to 500 people and got 500,000 US dollars. If there were 40,000 people in his gambling game, wouldn’t the amount be 50 million US dollars?
Old Mr. Baker did admire this young Chinese man. The old fox, who had long been a man of discerning experience, felt that Master Yuan was much better than his own grandsons, including the little Louis in front of him.
But it was a pity that Yuan Yanshu was not his grandson, so he had to consider whether to help, how to help, and to what extent.
However, after careful consideration, Mr. George Baker decided to help the Chinese man because he saw his own shadow in Yuan Yanshu.
To be more precise, through this gamble he saw a young man with great potential to become a great financier suddenly appear in front of him.
