Chapter 184 Restructuring of "The Communist Youth League Pravda"
In the early morning, the rising sun rose from the east. Moscow City ushered in another day of noise. In the workers' new city, many ordinary citizens living here are waiting for buses or commuter vehicles from the unit to take them to their workplaces. Many people gather around the newspaper booth with their own lunch bags in one hand, and then buy a newspaper from the newspaper booth to pass the time.
"Comrade Salesman, please give me a copy of "Prince of the Communist Youth League"" A young engineer working at the Moscow Electronics Research Institute took out fifty Kobe from his pocket and put it on the counter of the newspaper booth. He lives nearby and is an old customer here. It is his habit to get a newspaper to the unit to pass the time every morning. Although the unit also subscribes to "Prince of the Communist Youth League", the current "Prince of the Communist Youth League" is simply too useful. It has coupons for the only McDonald's restaurant in Moscow. In addition, "Prince of the Communist Youth League" often publishes some sports information, which is precious first-hand information for many sports fans who have the habit of collecting newspaper clipping.
"Hey! Young man, aren't you going to read these new newspapers and magazines? You read "Today's Sports News", "Today's Football News", "Seven Days Movie Weekly"... These are newly established by the newspaper "Prince Truth of the Communist Youth League", which specializes in introducing things that you young people are interested in!" The salesperson at the newspaper booth introduced enthusiastically.
"Ah..." The engineer didn't even think that there would be so many choices today. What's going on? Recently, there have been more sports and entertainment news about foreign countries in "Police of China" in "Police of China". This is the first time in the Soviet Union. Many Soviets heard about foreign bands such as the Beatles, ac/dc for the first time from "Police of China", and learned about the colorful life on the other side of the Iron Curtain. However, "Police of China" is restricted by the page, and every time they report these contents, it always clicks to stop, which makes many readers feel a little unsatisfied. But everyone never expected that "Police of China" would publish a series of such publications specifically to make everyone happy.
Almost overnight, newspapers and magazines in all cities in the Soviet Union began to publish these new newspapers and magazines under the Pravda de Treasure. Almost at the same time, every newspaper stand was filled with customers who came to buy. Thanks to the rampant smuggling in recent years, many foreign cultural products also flowed into the Soviet Union. This invisibly cultivated a certain user group for these newspapers and magazines. Therefore, these newspapers and magazines of Gusinsky did not lack sales and were soon sold out.
After winning the first battle, a big stone in Gusinsky's heart fell to the ground. Although "Prince of the Communist Youth League" gave up the content that young people liked, it also made some changes. It began to learn from the young people in the Soviet Union, learn their expressions, learn their thinking habits, and create news in a way that young people are easily accepting. Although this change was not very obvious, it made "Prince of the Communist Youth League" essentially distance itself from the other three newspapers.
Yeltsin's column in "Prince Truth" has also been carefully designed again. The contributors are no longer Jeltsin and his secretary team, but a creative team composed of editors of "Prince Truth". Every week, Jeltsin will list the outlines he hopes to publish in this newspaper, and then the content will be filled with the creative team of "Prince Truth" and the writing style is closer to the media in today's system under Gusinsky. Seryosha hopes that this will bring the distance between Jeltsin and young readers and make Jeltsin's political views easier for young people to accept.
The revision of the "Prince Truth of the Communist Youth League" finally came to an end, but there is another more important thing that needs to be taken care of by Selyosha himself. That is, the restructuring of the "Prince Truth of the Communist Youth League" into a media company. Selyosha has not yet found a good reason to convince Yakovlev. Although Yakovlev supports the restructuring of the "Prince Truth of the Communist Youth League", he felt that Selyosha bought this step a bit too big. Now that the companies in the Soviet Union are generally in a recession, Yakovlev feels that this is not a good time to transform the "Prince Truth of the Communist Youth League".
However, Selyosha put forward the opposite view. He believed that if the Pravdale of the Communist Youth League could not support itself like an enterprise, it would be subject to many restrictions. Selyosha specifically pointed out that the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China called directly to find the editor-in-chief of the Pravdale of the Communist Youth League and demanded that a certain report be replaced. This happened more than once or twice, especially the Pravdale of the Communist Youth League published some incidents about the investigation team of Ligachev's arbitrarily interfering in the work of local governments. As a result, Ligachev's secretary personally called the Pravdale of the Communist Youth League, accusing Pravdale of distorting the facts and slandering the central government. This made the comrades of the Pravdale of the Communist Youth League feel very angry.
"Secretary Gorbachev and you repeatedly emphasize respecting the freedom of journalists and not using political power to suppress journalists' reports! But some of our leading cadres take the lead in violating the central government's major policies, which makes our comrades work? Should we listen to which secretary in the Politburo?" Selyosha complained to Yakovlev.
"Seryosha, I agree with your proposal, but now so many companies in the production industry are still losing money. If your newspaper does not have the financial support of the central government, how can you survive? If you can't even survive, how can you talk about freedom of the press?" Yakovlev said earnestly.
"Secretary Yakovlev, you have lived in the West for a long time. How did the New York Times survive? We can survive too. Moreover, our entire Communist Youth League system still has some wealth and is willing to take it out and support our newspapers in a better direction. If we do not get money from the central government, then we can say no to the unreasonable demands of some leaders. Our Communist Youth League Pravda serves the Soviet people, especially young people, and is not the canary that some leaders have captives!" Selyosha said bluntly.
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Chapter completed!