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The American people are outraged. They don't care whether Murdoch is a Soviet spy, worships Stalin, or even likes to slaughter Australian dogs or British workers, but they care very much about one thing.
That is what Tommy Hawke told them, the Hollywood movies that they had to pay to buy tickets to watch, the Hollywood movies that they had to pay to rent at the video store, the Hollywood movies that they had to pay to subscribe to pay channels to watch, but in that big country far away in the East, they could watch them on TV for free for the people to enjoy, without spending a penny.
The damn Murdoch gave countless classic movies including the "Star Wars" series as his gifts to the other party, but now even if Americans go to the cheapest second-hand movie theater to watch the "Star Wars" movie, they still have to pay one dollar!
The American people are so pragmatic. If you let Americans take advantage of you, you are definitely a good person. But you make money from Americans, use American movie stars, and then package up the movies that Americans need to pay for and give them away for free to America's enemies. This is definitely forced communism. Murdoch is simply Stalin from Australia!
"Murdoch: The Soviet KGB's most successful infiltration of the United States in history!" "Boycott Fox movies! Every time you watch a Fox movie, the Soviet Union will make one more bullet to invade the United States!" "Pornographic photos of Fox's victimized actresses: Fox is my nightmare" "Australian barbarians stole Hollywood and gave it to China!"...
Various small American daily newspapers focusing on scandals and gossip finally understood why Murdoch's The Sun made money. They followed The Sun's style, gave sensational headlines to the news, posted a few topless photos of actresses, and pasted a picture of Murdoch on the actress's chest, and newspaper sales continued to rise.
As more and more followers followed, more and more revelations came out about the Murdoch family. Some reporters even got photos of Murdoch's Estonian father-in-law when he served in the Soviet Navy.
Murdoch's mansion in the United States and his company's headquarters in the United States were suddenly filled with various demonstrators and reporters from various media with cameras. They guarded outside 24 hours a day, hoping to capture the Australians' explosive news as soon as possible, but Murdoch never showed up. Instead, Murdoch's young wife Anna was photographed with her children, bodyguards, and servants getting into a business car with serious expressions, and went to the airport to take a private plane to the United Kingdom.
Then everyone realized that Murdoch, who had announced that he would settle in the United States as soon as he obtained American citizenship, had actually been living in London, England, and had only sent his wife and children to enjoy life.
Even though his reputation has been deteriorating in the United States, Murdoch has not come out to respond. His stay in London is certainly not because he is unmoved. On the contrary, he is now unable to split himself. The current situation is that he must stay in London to ensure the smooth launch of the Sky TV network, which has cost him 188 million pounds. This is the most important business war in his forty years. If he wins and the Sky satellite TV network is successfully launched, then the audience of his channel will no longer be just Australia, no longer just the UK, but the whole of Europe.
By then, any European family, as long as they have a TV and a receiver at home, will be able to watch the wonderful programs provided by the Murdoch Group, including wonderful Hollywood movies, exciting European sports programs, and various timely news, without having to pay a subscription fee, everything will be free.
As long as the Sky TV network quickly becomes popular in Europe, he will be the undisputed king of European media. All European politicians who need propaganda to gain votes to get to power will kneel before him, just like the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Murdoch was in London, but he was not unaware of the news published in American newspapers and news. He recognized the photos of his father-in-law at a glance. Those photos were definitely provided by the British Labour Party politicians who had been exposed and dealt with by him before, because those photos were used by the BBC to criticize him a few years ago.
Moreover, supplying ammunition to the Americans, stabbing themselves in the back and avoiding head-on confrontation is definitely the British style.
Of course, the BBC provided the Americans with black material not out of willingness to help, but to fight against Murdoch. The main purpose of Murdoch's establishment of the Sky TV network was to snatch the European satellite TV market from the BBC. The two sides have long been filled with gunpowder, and the fight has lasted for nearly two years. Three senior executives of the British Satellite Broadcasting Company were attacked by Murdoch's "Sun" and "News of the World" in scandals and eventually resigned. In return, the BBC destroyed Murdoch's dream of obtaining a satellite broadcasting license in the UK, forcing him to rent more expensive foreign commercial satellites.
Murdoch is in London at the moment and is busy lobbying the gentlemen of the British House of Commons and the House of Lords, because the BBC has joined forces with several small British satellite TV networks to draft a new policy bill for British satellite TV technology. The policy is tailor-made for Murdoch. It can be summed up in one sentence: anyone can set up a satellite TV network in the UK except the Murdoch Group.
Murdoch and the BBC, who have been fighting each other for nearly two years, have now come to a head. Both sides have revealed through different spokespersons or news that they are determined to acquire the satellite TV network. The Murdoch Group has prepared a start-up fund of up to 188 million pounds for the Sky TV network, of which 40 million pounds are intended to be used to lobby the two houses to reject the bill. The four major shareholders of the BBC said that they have raised 420 million pounds and are waiting for the bill to be passed before pointing their guns at the sky.
Although Murdoch had no time to pay attention to what was happening in the United States, he still took the time to call Presidents Reagan and Bush, hoping that they could shut up those stupid American idiots and explain that his poor father-in-law was not a Soviet naval officer at all, but an Estonian sailor who was forced to do odd jobs in the Soviet naval fleet for a period of time. He was also almost shot as a West German spy because he secretly watched West German TV series on Finnish TV.
However, before the president could even open his mouth, another close friend of Murdoch, a big shot in American politics, had already stepped forward to accuse the Americans of making random accusations.
New York City Mayor Ed Currie, a Democrat.
Everyone knows that he is a good friend of Murdoch. The reason he was elected mayor of New York was because of the extensive publicity given to him by Murdoch's large and best-selling newspapers. So no one found it strange that he spoke out in support of Murdoch.
In an exclusive interview with a New York newspaper, he talked about the recent accusations against Murdoch by many media: "I want to say, how long has McCarthyism been over? Just because Murdoch placed a bust of Stalin on his dormitory desk when he was studying, just because he sent a batch of movies to China? We have to accuse him of being a spy? If things continue to develop like this, do we have to investigate why Britain was able to buy the bust of Stalin and who sold it to him? If someone says, yes, we should investigate! Then congratulations, everyone, we are back to the McCarthyist America of the 1950s. In that period, we did this. We couldn't even publish Mao's theoretical books, we couldn't even remain silent, and even if you refused to shout out against communism, you might be sentenced to prison! That was a terrible era. Believe me, no one likes McCarthyism."
"Someone told me, Ed, Murdoch is a bastard. He earns money from American movie tickets, but gives the movie to China for free. You know, there are still many poor people in the country who look down on Star Wars! I agree with this question. Indeed, I must admit that some people in the United States cannot go to the cinema to watch a movie happily because of the temporary difficult situation. There are also many people who think that we should not care about the world outside the United States, but should really pay attention to the internal problems of this country. What other countries watch What kind of movies is it that the United States has to do with it? I understand everyone's anger, but I must say that the world is becoming more and more close. The United States should not be conservative and separate from the world, but embrace and join it. Murdoch gave away movies to convey American morality, rule of law, culture and the great American dream to the whole world, so that the whole world can watch American movies, eat American food, comb American hairstyles, and witness the greatness of America with their own eyes."
"Back to the question just now, if placing a bust of Stalin means he is a spy, then should we dig President Roosevelt out of his grave and hang him again? He not only has a photo of Stalin, but he also took a photo with Stalin, and he sat in the center. It looks like Stalin was following his orders. What should we say? Say that President Roosevelt was the mastermind behind the Soviet Union?"
"So, open your eyes. Those clowns jumping up and down trying to recreate McCarthy are more likely to be Soviet spies."
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Tommy put his feet on the desk, leaned back in his chair, and held in his hand an article written by the best writer under SSD alumnus Ted to refute Ed Curchu. After reading it, he picked up his phone and dialed Ted's number:
"How low a salary do you have to pay Mr. Thomas to make him take out something like this to deal with you?"
"I think this article is great, and the guy won a national critic award," Ted explained over the phone.
Tommy threw the faxed manuscript on the table and said unhappily, "So, the whole article simply questions whether Ed Curtry was elected mayor of New York City because of Murdoch's support, and then mentions his dirty dealings with real estate developers? It's easier for Susie to make money from her man Jason than for Mr. Thomas to make money from you."
"Just tell me what you want people to see on TV and in newspapers. At worst, I can find a chief editor who doesn't need your ideas to redraft it." Ted sighed.
I shouldn't have found a famous and stylish editor to write this thing. I should have found a pretty blonde who knew how to operate a typewriter to sit next to Tommy and listen to his nonsense, and then publish it word for word. That way, this bastard would definitely be satisfied.
Tommy smiled and said, "It's not that exaggerated. I just want to say that although Ed Curtis' speech was brief, it was very sophisticated. He started with McCarthyism, then talked about the significance of Murdoch in spreading American culture, and finally extended it to the greatest President Roosevelt in the United States. If you use this kind of garbage to refute him, it will really be like the garbage that he said about Congressman McCarthy. So in order to avoid this situation, the refutation must also be sophisticated. Remember, everything should be in the name of America."
"You'd better turn on the phone recording and write down how to attack the mayor of New York in a sophisticated way."
"Mayor Ed Currie described the significance of Murdoch giving American movies to China for free, saying that it would allow the world to feel the power of American culture and all the beauty of the United States. But I don't know whether it was due to neglect or intention, but in short, Mayor Currie forgot to mention the founding principles of our great America, freedom and equality."
"He mentioned morality, the rule of law, culture or the American dream, but what about freedom? Everything he said was based on freedom. I was shocked that such an important virtue of America was forgotten, so I did some research and found that Mayor Ed Currie did not forget freedom intentionally, but he simply did not care about freedom, at least he did not care about it during his ten years as mayor of New York."
"He always emphasizes that the minority should obey the majority, which seems to be nothing wrong. So he can force the closure of many entertainment venues under the banner of HIV because the majority of the people support it. He can force HIV carriers to go to medical centers because the majority of the people support it. He can drive out the homeless in New York because the majority of the people support it. But, is this freedom? No! This is false institutionalized freedom. The most important manifestation of this false freedom is that the strong group deprives the weak group of their rights! In the name of freedom and equality!"
"He constantly creates confrontations between the powerful and the disadvantaged, always standing on the side of the powerful, that is, the majority of the people, seeking fame and personal gain in the name of democracy. New Yorkers think that the mayor closed those places for their safety. Please, why don't you take a look at which real estate developers the forced-closed stores were eventually sold to? I heard that there are several bars in the black community in Brooklyn that were not forced to close. Why? Because no real estate developers are interested in them."
"The American people are not lacking in an open and inclusive mindset, but this must be based on equality and freedom. No one objects to Murdoch's free dissemination of American culture. We just question his inequality in dissemination, which damages the interests of vulnerable groups in America. What is equality? Equality means that while he is willing to give a large number of Fox movies to China for free, Fox's American movies should also be permanently shown in American cinemas and TV stations for free. Otherwise, the word equality should not be tarnished."
"If he can do this, I think those who still stand up and accuse Murdoch are definitely the public enemy of free mankind."
"The problem is that Mr. Murdoch didn't do that, and neither did Mr. Ed Curtra. He disregarded equality and freedom, shutting down entertainment venues without considering the demands of vulnerable groups, forcing them to go to medical centers without paying their bills, and evicting homeless people in New York without allowing them to take their blankets and cartons away. The only time he and Murdoch showed equality and freedom was during their honeymoon period of cooperation in the New York mayoral campaign. Their deal was equal. Ed Curtra became the mayor of New York at the cost of the Murdoch Group's free expansion in New York."
"Oh, there was another time when Mayor Cottrell made an equal deal with a real estate developer. He acquired the shares of a New York real estate developer at a low price, and then let the real estate developer buy the land stigmatized by HIV at a low price."
"Finally, please allow me to remind Mr. Murdoch and Mayor Ed Curtis, who was eager to explain for him, an Australian, that next time you show kindness to the world, don't donate the movie ticket money of the American people in your personal name. Please donate your own money!"
