"He said he was a special correspondent for The Economic Review."
The Economic Review is one of the most influential economics publications in the world.
Its status in the financial market is equivalent to the status of "Oil Painting" magazine in the art field. Even now, even the share composition is very similar, a combination of some private family holdings and financial group holdings.
If only this reckless backpacker hadn't come from such an old and influential magazine.
Elliot didn't hesitate at all. The moment the other party took out his press pass, he just told him to get out.
"The economics critic... is a big media outlet, OK, let him come up."
Anna looked down at the book "The Little Prince" in her hand, already having a perfect plan in mind.
She needs an outlet for exposure.
after today's shareholders' meeting.
The shareholders of "Oil Painting" magazine cannot hope that Detective Cat can make a comeback with this fairy tale book. Normally, they may find ways to continue to use their influence to discredit Detective Cat's artistic level.
It doesn't matter.
Miss Elena had anticipated this.
It's certainly not a good thing, but it can't be that bad either.
The art industry is a bit like the film industry.
Art critics and professional film critic groups are very powerful. They hold the right to award or not award you. If you offend the Film Society, you will basically be insulated from film and television awards in this life.
But nothing is absolute.
The most important thing is still the box office and genuine quality. As long as the work is strong enough, the Soviet theme film can also make the Oscar jury pinch its nose and award him an award.
The influence of art criticism varies by occasion.
If it is an oil painting used by an ordinary artist to participate in an international biennale or hold a personal exhibition.
Meet the collective denial of these masters.
It is a direct disaster, the scene will be very catastrophic, and it is even possible that I will reject your name when I see your name during the audition for the Biennale, and you may be refused admission.
But illustrations are not afraid of slander or criticism, they are just afraid of insufficient exposure.
This is one of the few benefits of being at the bottom of the art contempt chain.
Black and red are also red.
As long as your painting is good enough and seen by enough people.
So in the more down-to-earth illustration industry, turning trolls into fans is not an impossible task.
And this era.
A large journal in the field of economics has a high social influence.
Anna has seen the magazine's data analysis before.
"Oil Painting" magazine targets middle- and upper-class art enthusiasts, collectors with high net worth assets, and people who read financial newspapers.
Their statistical overlap is very high.
Art and wealth are two intertwined polynucleotide strands on the DNA double helix, entangled with each other from the moment of birth.
In particular, "The Economic Review" is not a very obscure academic business discussion.
It prefers popular publications, and its news topics are also very popular.
You can think of this media as a news newspaper for middle-class and above families.
One of its current commentary articles once affected the broadcast volume of HBO's popular TV series "Succession" and made it expected to win this year's Emmy Award.
It also caused tens of thousands more copies of the trendy gift pack jointly branded by Bubble Mart and KAWS to be sold in one week.
At this time, if you wait at a traffic light on the road, you can wait until the special reporter of "The Economic Review" rushes up.
When you doze off, someone will bring you a pillow!
Anna recalled the meaningful smile of the little girl picking mushrooms when she saw a fat rabbit running wildly and crashed into a wooden pile next to her.
"You're lucky, get in the car. No recording is allowed without explicit permission. If you want to take photos, the photos must be reviewed by me first. Do you understand the rules?"
Got a positive reply from the lady.
Elliot walked back to the young reporter sitting on the ground.
The female secretary took the recorder away from his hand without hesitation, turned off the phone and confiscated it.
The little reporter stood up and looked at the recorder that left him with regret, but he was not too entangled.
"Oil Painting" magazine is at the center of the whirlpool of the art market.
Not only art newspapers, but also financial newspapers around the world are focusing their attention on the acquisition proposal of this Austrian magazine.
Everyone smelled the ink aroma of money in the air.
Being the first to interview an important protagonist in the whirlpool.
Even if there is no special big news, this piece of news can sell at least more than 10,000 euros if it is released to the public.
The bet was right.
This time I have been reckless, it will help my future career path more than running for three years under the sun, wind and rain.
"Regarding the shareholders' meeting, I will give you the news you want, but the content and tendencies of your writing must also satisfy me."
The rear space of the GLS600, which is nearly 6 meters long, is as big as a conference room.
The little reporter just got in the car.
Anna went straight to the point.
"Ms. Irina, I am very grateful that you can accept my interview. I will record your original words in the interview fairly and objectively, but you cannot interfere with the content of my article."
The little reporter smiled coquettishly.
Of course he knew very well how unfavorable the current mainstream public opinion was to the girl in front of him.
The beautiful second-generation rich woman was kicked out of the company, and she has the dual attributes of finance and gossip.
In the financial field.
The last close example he could think of was Williams.
In 2020, the traditional F1 giant team of the past few decades, after Sir Williams handed it over to his young daughter, Claire Williams, was reluctantly sold to Dorothy Capital Group due to continuous poor management and the brink of bankruptcy. .
The Williams family has since been kicked out of the team named after them.
Capital Group took over and took advantage of F1's revival. In just three years, the Williams team's valuation increased fivefold and once again exceeded one billion U.S. dollars.
The scenery also reflects the desolation of Ms. Clare and the entire Williams family, who left sadly and was fired from the position of head.
When he was just a trainee reporter, The Economic Critic wrote a sharp business commentary on this topic.
It’s hard for young reporters not to connect Anna with the former Claire Williams.
The two things are very similar in many ways.
They are all young daughters who have taken over the huge family properties left by their wealthy elders. They are all the founders of the family who have been kicked out of the board of directors, and they are all taken over by capital groups.
Although the two situations are not completely interchangeable.
But Ms. Claire's current public evaluation is very negative in the eyes of many people.
"Incompetent decision-makers and chaotic managers, sinners of the family, with a heart as high as the sky and a life as thin as paper..."
These were some of the most caustic social commentary that could have been leveled at Ms. Williams back then.
It is hard to imagine that the gossip-loving public would be merciful to the current Ms. Elena.
but,
What does this have to do with him, a special correspondent for The Economic Critic?
He himself is a part of the public opinion.
The young reporter laughed in his heart that Miss Elena in front of him was too naive and would try to make him violate journalistic ethics.
If you are asked to write an interview report, it must be satisfactory to the other party.
Wouldn't it be like him fucking coming to your doorstep and working as free labor to write soft articles about cleaning the floor?
He was willing to lick his face and bump into the car in exchange for an interview opportunity, but he was not willing to be the Irina family's meat trumpet for no reason.
Although the "Economics Critic" in the public field is originally a type of political stance that fluctuates between the left and the right, and occasionally likes to sing against its colleagues.
Magazines of their size can be allowed to write soft articles.
The cost is definitely not a small amount.
Even if you are the chairman of a Fortune 500 company, you can ignore our request for an interview, and we can just write random articles to do whatever we want to do to you.
That's the cool thing about working in a large media.
"I can give the Economic Review exclusive news and only accept interviews from one of your media outlets. By the way, I will also send you a copy of all the written resolutions of the shareholders' meeting and the future development strategy of the magazine."
Anna made a promise that she didn't take seriously, since these things are all publicized anyway.
Big exclusive?
The little reporter licked his lips.
This proposal made him a little excited.
Exclusive reports and ordinary reports have completely different magnitudes in the field of journalism.
But……
"Ms. Elena."
The little reporter swallowed lightly and hesitated for two seconds, feeling that this condition was not enough to bribe him.
If the editor knew that he was engaging in such behind-the-scenes deals with his interview subjects, his press credentials would be revoked and he would lose his job.
Consider the return on investment ratio.
He suppressed his heartbeat, but he still looked like he could not surrender to wealth or lust, "Miss, you have misunderstood me. I really have journalistic ethics. The Economic Critic is a..."
"Then on other terms, Ron William, right?"
Anna glanced at the press pass at hand and called out the other party's name.
"Reporter William, I can maintain long-term dedicated line communication with you. In the future, I will be willing to disclose to you a series of internal changes and development plans related to the magazine in advance if circumstances permit."
This is saying,
Is Miss Elena willing to be her source of information within Oil Painting magazine?
When reporter William realized what the other party's promise was, his heartbeat slowed down by half a beat.
As everyone knows.
The prerequisite for every reporter who can produce important exclusive news and stir up troubles is that you must have an intelligence source that you control.
As a military and political reporter, you can use your green card to bribe people in areas controlled by the opposition armed forces. As a financial reporter, you can also bribe some low-level employees to obtain information on the trends of the company you are investigating.
The price is that the former is vulnerable to bullets, while the latter is easily taken away by the police's Financial Investigation Section as a commercial espionage.
but,
As long as you can dig out the hard stuff, it's all worth it.
"You mean...Ms. Elena, are you willing to be my long-term informant?"
Reporter William was enveloped in a huge sense of happiness.
With so much money for his investigative journalism, in Austria, the richest country in the world, it would be difficult to bribe a sweeper to help him steal discarded documents from the trash can.
And now.
There was actually a major shareholder who was willing to personally be his exclusive source of information, maintain communication with him, and tell him the future development trends of "Oil Painting" magazine.
A major shareholder who is willing to poach his own corner—even if nothing weird happened in the press, Reporter William still almost knelt down in front of Miss Anna, who had a clear mind.
"Informant? I would rather say friend."
Anna smiled gently at reporter William.
She took out a light sand-colored wine bottle with small bubbles floating in it and two champagne glasses from the independent wine cabinet in the back of the Mercedes-Benz.
"Listen, my friendship is not with The Economic Review, but with you personally."
Anna elegantly handed a goblet to the struggling man, "Mr. William, are you willing to be a friend of the Elena family?"
then,
Reporter William really fell to his knees.
"In order to ensure the fairness and objectivity of the news, I will show you, the interviewee, the finished press release to read it and listen to your opinions."
The art of language.
Being bribed by powerful people to become a mouthpiece under the profit chain is a scum among journalists and a blasphemy against the dignity of journalism.
But if you are willing to absorb the feedback from your interviewees and express your opinions "eventually", then you are a good journalist with high moral standards.
Reporter William took a deep breath, took the champagne glass, and drank it in one gulp.
Even without kneeling down and kissing someone's boots, Reporter William felt that he really had a lot of backbone.
Without him,
It’s too much to give.
In the journalistic world, the person who can get the news is me, and the informants who are only controlled by themselves are the most important assets in the hands of reporters.
Two fellow journalists have sometimes started fighting in the office over the contact information of an important news source.
If reporter William can always get important information about "Oil Painting" magazine, he doesn't care about the bullshit editor.
I can't even be bothered with the editor-in-chief.
If only we could cut off some time and release a few explosive news about the rumored oil painting fund that is about to be established - that is, it is difficult for financial journalists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, but a few minor newspaper awards are almost already coming to the fore. He waved.
In the plot of the popular political drama "House of Cards",
The female reporter Zoe developed a Democratic congressman into her long-term informant. She was the most prestigious person in the entire White House press hall, and even the boss greeted her with a smile.
Reporters who have channels to contact important informants are so arrogant.
"I...I need to write something, Miss Elena. You can be biased, but it can't be too outrageous, otherwise the editor will withhold the manuscript and readers won't buy it."
Reporter William opened his mouth with difficulty.
Equivalent exchange.
He was given a price that he couldn't refuse, so the demands he was planning must not be too small.
Reporter Zoe from House of Cards had to sell her ass and send her nude photos to get the Democratic congressman to agree to give her the scoop.
William must be very happy to sell his "hue".
But this beautiful thing,
I can only keep drooling in my dreams.
"Don't worry, I don't ask you to be too obvious. Write reports how you want."
Elena also raised her glass.
Anna has been in poor health since she was a child, so Anna lives a very disciplined life.
She avoids any alcoholic beverages and substitutes non-alcoholic champagne or wine, which is commonly available in the Muslim world, when necessary for social occasions.
That is, sparkling sugar water and grape juice with flavoring.
Anna took a sip of the sweet drink and said, "I just need to mention a few key points. It's not difficult."
The girl chuckled.
Reporter William's change was completely anticipated by Miss Elena from the moment he got in the car.
The heirs of the Old Money family are the best at dealing with reporters in the world.
Anna's family background template was thrown into Britain, and she was a proper hereditary noble member of the House of Lords.
Almost from the beginning of the Glorious Revolution, their profession was debating, speaking, and dealing with media reporters.
Regardless of whether he is a male thief or a female prostitute, he can pretend to be serving the country and the people in the eyes of the people.
How to get along with reporters is almost engraved in the genes of aristocratic families.
She knows how to make the most appropriate bids to reporters.
If you want to buy it with money, you may have to spend hundreds of thousands of euros to achieve such an effect.
And the other party will only become more greedy and want more next time.
Now, with just a few words, Anna successfully held Reporter William in the palm of her hand.
The other party obtained a long-term informant, and he obtained a long-term mouthpiece in the big media of "Economics Evaluator". Without paying a penny, he gained a win-win situation.
"Besides that, the most important thing is."
Anna directly turned over the last few pages of the shareholders' resolution: "I will ask the secretary to copy this document for you to take away. No matter how you report this shareholders' meeting, you must let the readers focus on Controversy over the upcoming release of the fairy tale book "The Little Prince."
""little Prince"?"
William stared at the resolution of the shareholders' meeting that was full of useful information in his hand, dipped his fingers in some saliva, and quickly turned the pages.
It would be a little weird for the financial media to focus on an upcoming fairy tale book, but since it was a proposal at a shareholder meeting, it wouldn't be too difficult to do.
"You don't need to praise your book from my standpoint, but you need to make the readers who read this report at least interested in buying a book and seeing what it is like. You should do this. It’s professional…”
…
It took about ten minutes to finalize the writing outline and the details of several questions with Ms. Elena.
Reporter William prepared to go back to the hotel and write hard to get the manuscript out as soon as possible and publish it before "The Little Prince" is officially released next weekend.
Although he was so excited that he wanted to write an article immediately, William cautiously refused Anna's offer to send him a car home, got out of the car and took an Uber himself.
The probability of being associated with something is very low. Reporter William still doesn't want to appear too close to the Elena family in the public eye.
"Is that African female painter worth your efforts?"
The LCD TV baffle between the back seat and the front seat of the GLS600 slowly slid down. The female secretary turned her head from the seat and asked with a complicated expression.
Just now, Miss Elena did not ask Elliot to get out of the car and wait outside, so all the conversations between him and reporter William fell into her ears.
Elliot doesn't know the secret story between Anna and Detective Cat, but she can still hear that the young lady is trying every means to promote each other.
The female secretary was a little resentful and felt very unworthy of Anna.
This damn detective cat has already caused enough trouble for the lady. If it hadn't been for the other party's video, Sir Brown might not have had the opportunity to make so many articles.
"Are you referring to the conversation you had with the reporter just now? It doesn't matter. Each one takes what he wants. It's not a bad thing to maintain good personal friendships with certain reporters. Before my aunt was alive, she also had two or three friends in the newspaper industry."
Anna explained with a chuckle, "As for the Detective Cat, after the shareholders' meeting, haven't you seen it yet, Elliot, helping her now is helping myself."
"And Detective Cat's works are worthy of me doing these things for her."
While Elena was talking, she took out a pen from the armrest box of the car seat, opened the title page of "The Little Prince" in her hand, and wrote on it in beautiful English letters.
"A noble work of art cannot be told by critics, it can speak for itself. A noble soul cannot be restrained by the world, and she will find freedom on her own."
Anna signed [Mr. Sloth], took out her mobile phone, and contacted her full-time assistant at the Schonbrunn Office.
"Send me something to Ms. Detective Cat."
——
"Meow?"
A tabby cat with a round head and round nose turned its ears and lazily tried to change into a more comfortable position and lay on the ground.
Biologically, cats are generally classified as nocturnal animals, resting during the day and eating and hunting at night.
But domestic pet cats actually do not have a very fixed schedule.
They sleep all day long and are active all day long. Usually for every 65 to 78 minutes of sleep, you will be up and active for 26 to 35 minutes.
If there are no external conditions, keep the cycle of sleep-activity-sleep-activity repeated.
Awang, the civet cat, has had enough sleep.
She didn't want to sit still here at all. There were sparrows chirping in the yard just now, and dragonflies were catching small midges along the Yangon River not far away.
Awang is a feral predator.
At this time in the past, she was either chasing sparrows or shooting dragonflies.
Otherwise, it would be quite interesting to jump up and slap the neighbor’s face who is carelessly stroking his tail.
But today.
Awang had no choice but to continue lying here as a sculpture.
Even though she couldn't go out to play and had nowhere to vent her energy, Awang was a little impatient, so she decided to continue waiting.
only because--
One hand gently stroked her hind limbs and scratched them a little skillfully.
"Meow meow meow!"
Awang's pupils dilated instantly, and his tail waggled twitchingly.
right,
That's right!
That's what it feels like!
It’s this kind of FEEL!
The human hand accurately brushed between the nerve-filled bones of its hip, femur, and tibia, like a superb Thai massage.
The entire cat's soul seemed to have been taken away by this hand.
Cool!
It's so cool.
The happy Awang kept barking, as if her whole life was just for this moment.
"Awang, be good, keep waiting for a little while and I will take you out to play. I will start painting right away and be my model for another ten minutes."
Gu Weijing scratched it twice, then took his hand away from the civet cat raised in Old Man Wu's house, and picked up the sketch pencil again.
(End of chapter)
