Chapter 949: Chapter 949: Dog Eat Dog
Liang Guangming received a call from the finance chief of Dongyang, and as soon as he answered, he started cursing profusely.
Because the online revelations were too detailed; if someone didn’t know the inside story, how could they be so clearly portrayed in every instance? It was like having a little notebook made for him.
Some of the things he did were because he was paid to do them, and others were instructed by the chief editor Zhang Tong. In essence, the two of them were birds of a feather.
Whoever paid, whoever paid more money, that’s who they spoke for.
Liang Guangming simply couldn’t think of a second person who could know these inside details; many things were unknown even to others within the newspaper office, as they were done privately between the two.
So now that the matter was exposed, this chief editor Zhang Tong was the most suspicious, perhaps it was even him who did it.
On the other end, Zhang Tong heard Liang Guangming’s curses and was choked half to death: "Damn, Liang Guangming, did a donkey kick your head? Why would I expose you, what do I gain?"
"Besides, you’re done for. I can escape the blame; I must be crazy to do something like that."
"Not you?"
Liang Guangming frowned and said.
Zhang Tong snorted coldly: "You and I are grasshoppers tied to the same rope, how would I benefit from harming you? Also, the exposure was not our action; our website was hacked, and not just us, many websites of our peers were also hacked."
"The spread of your dirt news is so fast now, someone is manipulating things from behind."
Liang Guangming listened to Zhang Tong’s explanation, which made sense as they had no interest conflict between them and had cooperated quite well before.
Zhang Tong doing this to him made completely no sense.
Besides, if he attacked like this, wouldn’t he fear Liang’s reprisals? Everyone in this industry has some dirt on hand.
If they really hurt each other, it’s uncertain who would be the one to fall at the end.
"Hacker intrusion, someone manipulating?"
"Yes, old Liang, I feel this time you’ve kicked a steel plate."
Zhang Tong said in a low voice.
"What do you mean?"
"I asked the editorial department, their computers started getting viruses as soon as they posted your article. Changing to another computer to publish also got viruses, then the background accounts were all unable to log in."
"And it’s the same for all our self-media channels, basically any news article about Li Feng is like poison, as soon as it’s published the computer gets hacked."
"Technical recovery on our side has not happened yet, but your news has been exposed over there."
"To say this matter is unrelated to that Li Feng, I really don’t believe it."
"Are you saying Li Feng hired hackers to hack into our site, suppressing his news and then exposing me!"
Liang Guangming said.
"Yes, now there’s only this reasonable explanation, old Liang, this situation is serious now, I’m just a chief editor, and now I can’t suppress it anymore."
Upon hearing Zhang Tong’s words, Liang Guangming’s eyes turned cold: "Zhang Tong, what do you mean, are you trying to make me take the fall?"
"Liang Guangming, this matter has already happened, you should understand the consequences of being exposed like this by the media, and these years, it was more than one or two companies that had problems because of our reports."
Zhang Tong said.
Liang Guangming took a deep breath: "Even if it’s reported, what can it do? It’s not evidence, I can totally refute the news and send it back."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Tong smiled bitterly.
"I believe in your ability, but the problem is the opponent doesn’t give you a chance to refute. Now the site is already paralyzed, and many sites are the same."
"Moreover, keywords online regarding Li Feng, New Century Group, etc. are completely blocked, even searching them will cause a virus, how do you plan to refute then."
"Now there’s only one way, which is to apologize to Li Feng, if he’s willing to let it go, then we have a chance to clean ourselves, otherwise not just you, even our Dongyang Finance will be ruined."
"Let me apologize to that pretty boy, impossible."
Liang Guangming flatly refused, then hung up the phone. Earlier he was calculating how to bite a piece of meat from Li Feng, now turning around he’s asked to beg for Li Feng’s forgiveness.
He, Liang Guangming, had dignity.
He simply didn’t believe in that evil, even if the opponent hired hackers to hack some websites, they couldn’t block the entire media.
Nowadays, it’s the era of self-media, a phone can transmit information all over the world.
"Xiao Xiao, come over and help me record a video."
Just when Liang Guangming planned to counterattack, some media companies in Sea City had already noticed the toxicity surrounding Li Feng.
"This Li Feng is really toxic, now as long as you input these two words, the computer gets a virus, it’s just mysterious."
"Brother Zhang, you also went to that conference, Li Feng might target you too."
At this time, a female editor turned to look at Zhang Cheng, who was also one of the reporters invited to the New Century Group’s inauguration conference.
When they were kicked out of the hotel, like others he was quite outraged, and was really upset with Li Feng’s impolite actions toward reporters, naturally, he didn’t hesitate to write an article clearly criticizing Li Feng.
Being asked, Zhang Cheng broke out in a cold sweat.
Liang Guangming’s case really frightened him; looking at this confession, it seemed like sentencing oneself to prison, indeed a confession was self-destructive.
Liang Guangming can be said to be completely finished; some phenomena have always existed, but it’s a hidden rule, after all, reports are unbiased but people do have inclinations.
How the pen finally writes still depends on personal thoughts.
Just that Liang Guangming went a bit too far, having crossed the line, if not exposed it’s nothing, but once exposed it’s explosive, capable of annihilating a lot of people.
"I conduct myself upright and honest, what’s there to fear?"
Zhang Cheng took a deep breath; he believed himself to be a good reporter, and had never done the kind of stuff Liang Guangming did.
"The fear is the fabrication out of thin air, just like the things in Liang Guangming’s report, though they appear logical, I think not a few of them are pieced together, maybe some real matter exists but definitely not that exaggerated."
"But now the mix of truth and lies, while we can see clearly, ordinary people cannot, Liang Guangming is destined to be finished, even Dongyang Finance might be dragged down."
"After all, media relies on reputation, being fair and impartial."
Listening to the discussions around, Zhang Cheng felt immensely pressured too. As a reporter, he naturally understood the power of public opinion, whether you’ve done it or not, if everyone thinks you have, you cannot explain.
Otherwise, why are they called uncrowned kings? Because they hold the power of speech and channels.
Originally, this time the one thought to fall was Li Feng; after all, he actually hit Liang Guangming and expelled all of them; it was going against them, the ones with the pens.
But now.
Zhang Cheng was quite unsettled, genuinely fearing becoming the next Liang Guangming; after all, the opponent was now fully controlling the news and they couldn’t counterattack, as they couldn’t even log into their own backend.
"Linda, your phone is ringing."