Bob was a reporter for The New York Times and one of its deputy editors. He was a well-known figure in the media circle.
Bob had many halos and titles, such as the representative of the weak, the conscience of the media, the nemesis of black-hearted companies, etc.
However, these halos were real. Since Bob became a reporter, in more than 10 years, he had uncovered the dark secrets of hundreds of companies and exposed a large number of corporate scandals. More than 20 companies were forced to close down because of Bob's news and public opinion. This made Bob famous in the industry. Many companies were afraid of Bob. They were afraid that their companies would be targeted by Bob and then destroyed by his public opinion attacks.
What many people didn't know was that Bob was actually a media partner of the Motorcycle Association. His father was an important member of the Motorcycle Association. Bob and the Motorcycle Association had an old relationship for more than ten years. He had helped the Motorcycle Association blackmail many of their opponents. Many of them were directly forced to the point of bankruptcy by his various articles and public opinion control.
Today, his mission was naturally to help the Motorcycle Association shape public opinion and destroy Tesla.
In fact, the Motorcycle Association's attack on Tesla was basically Bob's responsibility. For example, the public opinion campaign to ban electric scooters in the United States was planned by Bob.
However, he did not expect BYD to make use of the environmental protection organization and public opinion to counterattack, directly causing the plan to fail. This made Bob very depressed, and it became a rare failure in his life. This made Bob very depressed, and he was always thinking about how to counterattack.
Then, the opportunity came. In fact, this was just a normal accident. Every year, there were thousands of car accidents in the United States due to car doors being opened. Most of the time, according to the court's judgment, it was actually the fault of the party who opened the door.
It was common sense for drivers to look at the car behind them when they opened the door. It was also common sense for drivers to take a driving test. Therefore, most of the responsibility fell on the driver. The driver of the motorcycle was innocent, and the motorcycle was naturally innocent as well.
This kind of case would not cause a big storm.
However, Bob discovered that there was an important news element in this button. First of all, the victim was a woman. Most importantly, the victim was a pregnant woman. After her death, two lives were lost.
Then, the value of this news was completely magnified. After seeing this news, all the audience would naturally stand on the pregnant woman's side. They would not consider the real division of responsibility in this accident. They would only feel that the pregnant woman was too pitiful, and the fault must be the cyclist's.
Moreover, the guy in the car was a young man in his twenties. His body was covered in tattoos. One look and one could tell that he was not a good person. He was a gang member, the kind that would applaud his death.
For example, in this case, if the driver of the car was a minor, then this person would naturally receive a lot of sympathy from the audience.
However, if this person was a young man in his early twenties, it would definitely be a disaster.
Although the difference between these two types of people was only two years. To put it bluntly, young people were only two years old. However, as long as they passed the threshold of 18 years old, in the hearts of the audience, they would change from natural victims to natural criminals.
All in all, Bob was very successful in using this case to create another big piece of news. He used the identity of the pregnant woman to successfully attract a lot of sympathy from the public, and naturally transferred the hatred to the cyclist.
However, the problem was that the rider was already dead. The public could not vent their anger on a dead person. Therefore, the Tesla that was ridden by a dead person naturally became the best target for the public to vent their anger on.
In particular, this young man was really unethical. He sped up the speed to more than 120. Driving at such a speed on the main road was completely suicidal!
This was a very classic case of public opinion manipulation. Bob used his influence and various skilled skills to successfully transfer all the public's anger to Tesla. It was Tesla that appeared on the main road at high speed. If it were not for Tesla, there would not be such a case, and the pregnant woman would not have died. Anyway, all the fault was Tesla's.
Then, he took the opportunity to request that Tesla be banned from driving on the main road. In this way, he directly threw all the blame on Tesla.
On the other hand, the motorcycle association used their political power to start pushing at the level of the parliament. Of course, the members of the parliament would not go against public opinion for their own votes.
Moreover, banning Tesla would not have too much of an impact or problem on the investors behind them. Everything would happen naturally.
According to Bob's plan, next, he only needed to use BYD's press conference to completely intensify the public's anger towards Tesla. Then, Bob did not need to do anything after that. The angry public would do it for him.
Therefore, Bob's main task at this press conference was to ruin BYD's press conference and make BYD continue to be the representative of a black-hearted company.
Originally, Bob was fully prepared. If BYD's attitude was very firm and refused to admit its mistakes, it would naturally be the best. All kinds of articles would directly scold it to death.
If BYD's attitude softened and just wanted to shirk the responsibility and try to minimize the problem, Bob would expose it on the spot and let BYD have an irresponsible reputation.
However, Bob did not expect BYD to be more cowardly than he thought. BYD had already softened before he could force it.
Wang Chuanfu did not have the slightest intention of shirking the responsibility. At the beginning of the press conference, he directly took all the responsibility directly on BYD. Then, he apologized to all the management and took the initiative to give a huge compensation of one million USD to each person. His attitude was simply too good and too soft. Bob, a professional anti-black-hearted company reporter, actually could not find any flaws in it for a while.
However, Bob wasn't a top-notch media person. Even if he couldn't find any flaws, he could still create them in his own way!
"Mr. Wang Chuanfu, for this kind of thing, can it be solved with just an apology?" Bob stood up and asked directly without hesitation. "Your apology can't change the problem. As long as Tesla can appear on the main road normally, the same traffic accidents will continue to happen. More and more innocent people, innocent pregnant women, and their children will walk into despair and death together!
"Your apology is simply useless. You have to show an attitude and solution to the problem, and not be perfunctory like this!" Hearing this, all the media reporters present could not help but applaud the famous reporter, Bob!
Secretly changing the concept, stirring up emotions, extreme elaboration, using a point to generalize, group coercion, and other methods of fanning news were perfectly applied and demonstrated by Bob. This paragraph could be a textbook for new reporters. It was simply too awesome!
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