July 24, 1937 is a day worthy of commemoration in American journalism because it represents the resurgence of yellow journalism.
Yellow news is a news type that emerged in the United States at the end of the 19th century. It mainly focuses on sensational, violent, bloody, pornographic and other topics. It was once popular and reached its climax during the Spanish-American War.
In 1901, Hearst openly incited the assassination of President McKinley in the "New York News" because of his support for the defeated Republican leader Brian Brian. In September of the same year, McKinley was assassinated, and this document was found from the murderer's pocket.
A copy of the New York News. People began to oppose yellow news. For a while, everyone shouted that yellow news should be beaten.
Although yellow journalism rose again in the 1920s due to the development of color printing and technology, people still had lingering fears about yellow journalism. Within a few years, yellow journalism newspapers and periodicals were suppressed and disappeared.
But after more than ten years, these tabloids that had been suppressed in the corner suddenly showed their power collectively. Most of the owners of these tabloids are small businessmen who are barely operating. These people dare to publish any news in the newspaper for the sake of profit.
The most important reason why we dare to do this is that the United States is a country without news control, and even allows news rumors and fake news. This is also one of the reasons for the rise of yellow news in the United States. One of the representative events is the April Fool's Day news
exist.
The lack of press control does guarantee the freedom of Americans - of course, the premise is that your newspaper is read. The result is that wealthy and powerful people can use the method of opening a newspaper to influence the direction of public opinion, even if the news they publish is discovered
No one can accuse him of being false. After all, the law allows this.
Dupont was woken up by a rapid knock on the door today. Dupont got up in disgust and opened the door and said, "Damn, I hope you really have something important, otherwise I guarantee you will become a concrete block."
One of the leaders of Dupont's secret force came. He took several newspapers and said to Dupont, "Oh no, something happened to us. Now the streets are full of negative news about us."
Dupont frowned and took a look at it. It was a tabloid that he had never heard of. The title written on it was shocking: "Stockings War - Decrypting the Truth You Don't Know"
Dupont took another copy: "Yesterday, three girls were raped because of their stockings. Who made it impossible for us to buy stockings?"
Take another look at "A young girl was beaten by a mysterious man for buying stockings - suspected to be a big company"
Pick up another copy of “You Can’t Buy Stockings in the Richest Countries—and Here’s Why It’ll Make Your Skin Stand Standing.”
Looking at the content again, the people and things in it are all under pseudonyms. A girl whose initials is B is in City N. As for the villain, it is Company D.
Although he didn't mention it by name, anyone who knows about the stocking storm knows that this company refers to DuPont.
Dupont smiled nonchalantly and said, "So what, these are tabloids, where will anyone buy them?"
The leader said with a grimace, "You don't have to buy them. They are given away. They are given out everywhere. It is said that more than a hundred newspapers are giving away these newspapers for free."
Dupont was surprised and said, "Send??"
"Boss, why do we need to deliver newspapers?" Zhang Ye asked curiously.
Jiang Cheng chuckled and said, "These top-notch tabloids have merit for their survival. What they need most now is reputation. Now that we have given them the opportunity, of course they are willing to seize it. Capitalists can risk their lives as long as there is profit, especially
These are the people who have never been able to see the future. Once we give them hope, they will desperately grab it."
Delilah has been standing at the airport for a week. Now she is a freshman in high school and she is at the age where she likes to be popular the most. Especially because damn Sarah, she didn’t know what she did to get five pairs of stockings, which immediately attracted all the sisters around her.
He was attracted to her house, and there was D who had no eyes for him. He even hinted to him like that, but he still went to Sarah's house, especially the way he looked at Sarah's thighs. He really made him angrier the more he thought about it.
At this time, another flight arrived. Dilila squeezed to the front excitedly, holding a sign crazily and shouting, "Sir, do you have any stockings? Madam, do you have any stockings?"
A fat man took out a box of stockings from his bag with a smile, and immediately countless hands stretched out to him. Several police officers who were maintaining order squeezed in desperately.
The fat man said in English with a strong accent, "A pair of silk stockings, who will come with me to travel in New York for four days."
Damn it! Another person like this. Dilila put down her hands bitterly, and finally the pair of stockings was taken by a tall mature woman. She was seen holding the fat man next to her and twisting towards her.
Outside.
Dilila made a sound of disdain and prepared for the next fight. At this time, a shout attracted her. Looking back, she saw an extremely capable-looking woman standing on a chair. She waved a newspaper and said, "Sisters,
What are you doing? You are standing here begging those Europeans for stockings. Europe can buy stockings at will, but we in the United States, which claims to be free, cannot buy them. Why on earth is this?"
A woman shouted, "It's not like Weihua Company won't sell it anymore."
The woman continued waving her hands and said, "Then what stopped them from selling to us? Who made our sisters sell their souls for stockings? Who made us not even have the right to wear a pair of socks?"
The people below were talking a lot, and a woman with glasses said, "It's Dupont."
The woman responded, "Yes, it's all because of DuPont. Out of jealousy, they didn't allow Weihua to sell us silk stockings, and the DuPont stockings they promised have not even been seen yet. We are a free country. Should we go there?"
Don’t you even have the right to buy socks? Read these newspapers and see what happened to our sisters because of DuPont? What do you think we should do?”
Delilah shouted, "Go find them to settle accounts!!"
When Dupont arrived at the company, he already found that he could no longer enter the company. Countless women who came from nowhere, led by a few feminists, shouted slogans: "Power! Freedom! Beauty! Stockings!"
Surround your building.
Dupont laughed angrily and said, "Do you think you can surrender to me like this? It's ridiculous, G. If you lead people to disperse them, the leaders can be more ruthless."
A strong man in a black suit next to Dupont nodded and left.
After a while, hundreds of people dressed in workers' clothes and waving red flags rushed out from nowhere, shouting slogans "Long live the red world" and waving iron bars and rushed into the crowd. Most of these protesters were women. Where were they?
The opponents of these strong men screamed repeatedly, and several women who took the lead were beaten with bloody heads.
Jiang Cheng, who was watching the show through a telescope on the roof of the building on one side, laughed and said, "As expected, let them go."
Zhang Ye nodded and waved the American flag beside him vigorously.
Dupont smoked a cigarette and said with a smile, "You dare to protest to me, it's a joke." The mistress next to him coquettishly handed him a glass of wine. Before Dupont could drink it, he saw the people around him suddenly rushing towards his company like crazy.
Dupont felt baffled. What was going on? He saw hundreds of reporters appearing out of nowhere and taking pictures of the chaotic scene. Dupont then relaxed and said, "What am I talking about? These people are supposed to be here."
Kill the Red Party, their fight with feminism has nothing to do with me.”
——Indeed, if the opponent is not Jiang Cheng, this is indeed the case.
The day after the demonstrators were dispersed, Dupont suddenly received an anonymous letter.
Dupont never dreamed that Jiang Cheng, who came from a later generation, would actually bring a later generation camera to take evidence.
Professional cameras of later generations can easily take extremely clear faces of people 500 meters away. This was unimaginable in 1937. Little did he know that in order to take these photos, Zhang Ye had trained his eyes hard these days.
Same as rabbit.
Dupont was trembling when he saw the four photos delivered to his door. One was a photo of himself talking to the strong man, one was a photo of the strong man coming out of the alley with a red flag, and the other was a picture of chaos.
A photo of a group of people being beaten, a picture of a strong man violently breaking a woman's head.
God...how did they do it? You must know that in the photos of this period, it is impossible to take a clear picture of a person as long as the person is seven or eight meters away. So as long as you take a clear picture of the person, the other party will definitely find it.
. And this color photo is so clear, it’s as if it was taken in front of you. How did they do it? Could it be those damn reporters? It’s possible—but it doesn’t feel right.
Dupont had no time to think about this problem. The phone in his office kept ringing, and he slowly picked it up - the person opposite was the person he least wanted to face at this time - Franklin Roosevelt.
Roosevelt didn't know how Jiang Cheng took these photos, but he understood that DuPont had already lost in this competition, so it was better to give up on the good news.
Roosevelt expressed his willingness to make peace with DuPont and Weihua. Although DuPont was unwilling to use his explosives again, Roosevelt directly stated that Weihua did not have a factory in the United States, but only had a sales point, and the leader of Weihua
Until now, he has never shown his face again. Both Zhang Ye, whom the public knows, and Jiang Cheng, whom Roosevelt met, are just puppets. Roosevelt would not believe that such a company could be made by a man in his twenties.
Created by people.
In other words, DuPont really wanted to use violence and could not even find the target to attack. The most important thing is that Weihua's leadership has begun to contact the German company Farben.
DuPont really panicked when he heard about Farben.
German Farben Company - one of the six major group companies in Nazi Germany, has a complete monopoly on the German chemical industry. 100% of Germany's methanol and lubricants, 80% of explosives, 70% of ** and 35% of sulfuric acid are produced by this company.
Provided by the company, it can be said to be one of DuPont's biggest rivals. More importantly, Farben has a deep relationship with the Standard Oil Company of the United States. The two companies hold each other's shares and become important shareholders. This later
World War II also caused a large amount of American oil to flow to Germany.
Although DuPont is strong, it can only retreat in the face of Farben and Standard Oil. In this way, DuPont may never lose the big cake of chemical textiles. Roosevelt did not understand why DuPont looked at stockings like this. In fact, what DuPont valued was
Nylon, the material of stockings, which can be produced out of thin air, will eventually become an important textile material in the future. This piece of cake is not comparable to small stockings. It is a big cake for billions of people. Its specific profits are simply unimaginable.
DuPont can guarantee that this will make DuPont's ranking a few places higher among American consortiums.
For security reasons, the meeting between DuPont and Weihua was conducted over the phone.
Amidst the high-sounding words, the two companies reached a final agreement.
First, Weihua will provide DuPont with theoretical methods for the industrialization of nylon, but it does not include industrial equipment and subsequent theoretical support.
Second, unless there are production reasons, DuPont will sign a market division agreement with Weihua every year, with DuPont taking 40% and Weihua taking 60%.
Third, Wei Hua guarantees that those photos will never be circulated among the world.
Fourth, Weihua guarantees that European stockings will not be circulated to the Americas through any official channels.
Fifth, DuPont transferred a medium-sized explosives factory as compensation for Weihua's transfer of theoretical methods. However, in order to ensure DuPont's monopoly on explosives, Weihua was not allowed to sell any arms in the United States.
Sixth, Weihua reserves the right to conduct in-depth development and research on synthetic resin technology.
Seventh, the contract must be signed after DuPont and Weihua sign a cooperation agreement and must be signed under the joint witness of the top ten consortiums.
The above agreement will be drawn up by five barristers, with DuPont providing two, Weihua providing two, and the government providing one.
At the same time in Germany, Chen Nan also signed a similar agreement with the French currency company. Of course, in order to gain Hitler's support, Jiang Cheng provided Hitler with detailed data on the King George V, which was currently under construction.
A week later, Weihua stockings were put on sale in the United States again. In order to compete with Dupont and Farben in the future, Weihua started a stockings membership system and a mail-order business for the upper class. At the same time, it classified future stockings according to fabrics and designed several
Brand. Jiang Cheng also used these days to transport large quantities of medicines and stockings to the United States and Germany.
At this time, China was staged a major rout. At the same time, Jiang Cheng also received an urgent message from Yan'an and Li Qian. Yan'an said that Jiang Cheng needed to return to Yan'an immediately. Li Qian reported on the situation in Pingjin.
