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"Don't try to fool yourself, does that have something to do with you, the paparazzi in the gossip section?"
"Yes Yes"
"Why are you still standing here? Go get me some material!" Richard said sternly, "If I still can't bring back any news this time, I'll transfer you to write a bad joke!"
Little reporter Pike gasped.To write bad jokes?Then he has to endure until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse to be able to survive to the top?He also wanted to get into the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Does the Pulitzer have an award for writing jokes?
Pike hurried away.Richard snorted as he sat in the office drinking tea.
In fact, Parker's work has been doing fairly well, the young reporter is full of vigor and vitality, always full of energy, and Richard is still satisfied with him.Of course, calling him to write bad jokes is just to scare him.But today's young people need pressure. Without pressure, where can motivation come from?Richard feels that he is thinking about the future of young journalists. He really is a good boss.
Not long after he sent Parker away, a young and beautiful blond female reporter came to his office.
He remembered that the girl seemed to be called Cathy?Seems like an intern who just graduated from college?
"Boss, I have big news!" Cathy looked excited, "It's definitely big news!"
"Oh, talk about it?" Richard put down the teacup slowly. "What's the matter? Did you find out the ins and outs of last night's events? Or do you know the origin of the monster?"
"Well, it's not about that, Mr. Li." Cathy's excitement seemed to fade a little when he asked this. "It's about a gang called the 'Green Snake Gang'."
"Oh." Richard leaned back into his chair, and seemed to lose interest immediately.
What, it turns out to be a gangster, so what big news can there be?
Chapter 8 The Quibbler
In a city like New York — especially in Hell's Kitchen, gangsters are as sparse as the air and nothing to care about.It is said that in Hell's Kitchen, even the patrolmen dare not walk alone on the block at night. Murder cases occur frequently in that area, and even the people who live in it have become accustomed to it.
And what is the name of the gang that Cathy mentioned "Green Snake Gang"?
This kind of name that looks like a featureless and rotten street at first glance, it's an irrelevant rogue no matter how you look at it?
What are these small fish and shrimps worth paying attention to?
But then again, it's precisely because no one else is paying attention that the media should make a difference.While tracking and reporting big news, someone has to be in charge of the little things in the city.After all, it is part of the media's vocation to expose social problems and arouse social attention and thinking.
Richard also knew exactly how eager the young intern reporter was to take over a big news story, and then make a name for himself and become a well-known young reporter or something.Richard is very clear about her thoughts. After all, who hasn't been young yet?Think he didn't have a similar dream when he was an intern?
But in fact, in terms of his physical age after crossing, he doesn't seem to be much older than this little reporter.
He decided to give Cathy a chance to exercise, so he nodded and said, "Let's hear it, what happened to the 'Green Snake Gang'?"
"That's right. I have a reliable informant who gave me information that the Green Snake Gang was in charge of receiving an unregistered cargo ship on Wednesday." Cathy said, "My informant and the Green Snake Gang A senior member has a good relationship, and the other party gave him a little bit of information. I am now 80.00% wrong, [-]% wrong, and I am completely sure that the cargo ship transported a whole ship of girls who were trafficked from all over the place !"
No, you are really not sure, girl?Can you be a little more rigorous?
But in fact, anyone who knows a little bit about Hell's Kitchen will know that this kind of thing is not uncommon at all, and girls are kidnapped every week.But if they can catch such a case once, and then let a reporter with strong writing skills write some sensational words to appeal to the public's attention, the news is still very interesting.
And to be honest, Richard himself is quite disgusted with the practice of human trafficking, and there is indeed someone who should fight them.
Young intern reporters really need this opportunity too.So Richard decided to encourage her by asking, "So, what's the name of your informant? Can he testify?"
Cathy shook her head: "No. The prerequisite for him to disclose information to me is that his identity cannot be revealed, otherwise his situation will be very dangerous."
"Then you must know where that ship is?"
"Yes. But I've looked and the ship was evacuated the next day."
Richard had an ominous premonition: "Then you must know where the abducted girls are?"
Cathy shook her head like a rattle: "I don't know."
This is really a question and three I don't know!
No, if I ask you, there are no witnesses and no physical evidence, so you are so excited to say that you are playing with me for a long time?
Richard said his head hurts.
Do you think our newspaper is the e3 game show?Is it more round than whose pie is drawn?
But you always have to be tolerant and patient when dealing with new people. Richard didn't get angry, he just spread his hands and said, "So you don't have any evidence. How are you going to let me publish it in the newspaper?" It is expected that a certain gang in Hell's Kitchen is engaged in smuggling of people. 'Where is the evidence? No. Where are the people? It's gone. It's really a picture of the beginning, and the content is all made up?"
Cathy was not discouraged: "It's just not yet, boss. Trust me, give me a little time, and I'll be able to dig out the information. Just this weekend, I'll be able to show evidence before the weekend! Boss, see if you can, let's go. Reserve a spot on Monday"
"The seventh edition is wrong, the eighth edition." Richard said blankly, "Can't go any further."
"Boss, this is a group smuggling activity!" Cathy was unhappy.Eighth edition?Isn't that just a mosquito leg?Even if such a big news doesn't make a front page headline, why can't it be so backward?
"It's still Hell's Kitchen over there." Richard shrugged, "It's not that I don't want to give it to you, but there's been a lot of big news recently. You can check it out for me first, and you can find out the typesetting later. What if you're at the end? I haven't found it yet, let alone the eighth edition, the eighty edition is not yours."
Cathy blinked her eyes: "Boss, our newspaper doesn't have an [-]th edition"
"I'm using an analogy, do you understand the exaggerated rhetoric?" Richard felt really tired - was this girl really too upright or did she deliberately want to choke her boss?
"Oh, I understand." Cathy smiled, "Thank you boss, I will not disappoint you!"
The intern reporter went happily.
The office was finally quiet for a while.Richard sat in his chair, took a sip from his teacup, and looked out the window.
Although he didn't tell the little reporter directly, in fact, from a personal emotional point of view, he was very supportive of reporting this type of news.
In his previous life before time-travel, although he failed to start a family and start a business, he had a younger sister who was only fifteen or sixteen years old when he suddenly left after time-travel.Heart-to-heart, Richard felt that if his own sister was abducted and sold, even if he turned the world upside down, he would have to make everyone involved pay the price.
Of course, there was nothing he could do then, even if the worst did happen.After all, he is just an ordinary person, a small reporter, who neither knows any very powerful friends nor has a very hard backstage.He's just an insignificant little guy.
But it's different now.