In the office of East China Metropolis Daily, a middle-aged man in his forties was patting his bald head in annoyance.

"Damn it, I wouldn't have written this news if I had known it. I'm besieged now."

Another middle-aged man wearing a turtleneck sweater, Zhao Litao comforted him: "Lu Hong, don't be too anxious. Netizens just scolded him a few times, and they were blind. They had such a short memory, maybe there would be a big news today to divert their attention."

Lu Hong sighed, "I hope this is the case, those people don't come to cause trouble for me. It's obviously a small news, but it's so big."

Zhao Litao didn't care at all. He waved his hand and said, "That group of online mobs are like flies. After a while, they will be attracted by other topics. At least our newspaper is famous, and the number of clicks on the official website has increased a lot, just ignore these negative comments."

"I saw the clue of tomb robbers at that time because I felt it was too boring and could not attract others at all. I happened to hear the driver listening to "Ghost Blows Out the Light" in the car again. Isn't this clearly asking me to combine them?" Lu Hong did not regret it, he was just a little scared.

"What are you afraid of? Didn't Director Chen agree with your approach? No one should hold you accountable." Zhao Litao was very impressed, "Hasn't something similar happened to us before? It's just that it's not discussed on the Internet on such a large scale, and they just came to the newspaper to argue."

"I hope this is the case." Lu Hong sighed, "We are the duty to advertise Zhang Chu's book "Ghost Blows Out the Light". We should ask him for advertising fees."

"That's right, he should thank us. If it weren't for us, who would have cared about a tomb robbery novel!"

...

Zhang Chu was not sure what strange thinking the two journalists far away in East China had. He was sitting in a law firm now and was consulting professional lawyers’ advice.

Li Hongbing is a lawyer at Bosheng Law Firm in Yanjing City. He is good at civil and criminal legal affairs. He has learned the whole story through Zhang Chu's explanation.

"Actually, according to your current situation, sending a letter to ask them to apologize in the newspaper should be the best choice. If you want to choose the above, the winning rate should be 100%. The prerequisite is that the police's confession does not really record the relevant content of "Ghost Blows Out the Light"."

Zhang Chu shook his head and said, "My agent personally went to confirm it. If they want to apologize, they will finish it. I may not accept it. Since this lawsuit is sure to win, why don't we fight?"

"So that's the case, I'll accept this case. Now I'll write a complaint and a notice of evidence to help you write a lawsuit and try to hand it over to the court as soon as possible." Li Hongbing hoped that all cases would be as simple as this time and profitable as this time, and maybe even a fresh graduate who had just joined the company can win.

"Then thank you, I'll wait for your good news."

He stood up and shook hands with Li Hongbing, and signed an agency agreement and formally hired Li Hongbing as his attorney to handle this reputation rights dispute case!

After returning home, Zhang Chu had time to enter the Weibo account. Since the outbreak of the "Ghost Blows Out the Light", people have been looking forward to his voice.

"First of all, I want to say that "Ghost Blows Out the Light" is a story, a novel, and it is definitely not a documentary, nor a memoir. The truth and falsehood are combined together. If you want to distinguish between reality and fiction, you can only distinguish it from a specific noun or a certain plot.

Tomb robbing is an illegal act. I hope everyone can just read novels or related film and television works, and never learn it.

In addition, in response to the false report of @East China Metropolis Daily yesterday, our lawyer has completed the evidence collection work and will file a lawsuit with the court soon.

The authenticity of news is the soul of media credibility, truth is the bottom line of news reporting, the bottom line of professional ethics of news practitioners, and the pillar of media credibility."

Perhaps the rest of the people will choose to forgive generously when facing this situation, but Zhang Chu knows that such news is likely to happen again and must be prevented before it happens.

The best thing is of course to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, so that the news media can maintain a real attitude when reporting their own related news, without adding fuel to the fire, and without making fraud.

Netizens almost all support Zhang Chu one-sidedly. They didn’t expect that such a large media would deliberately report false news!

"False and hyped news is increasing, and many so-called authoritative media are gradually dismissing. I really don't know who should I believe. I hope the law will give Zhang Chu justice."

"The credibility of the media is getting lower and lower. Even CCTV news has been forwarded these days."

"Support Zhang Chu to protect his rights in accordance with the law, this kind of behavior is too arrogant!"

"It's time to rectify the news media, and don't just delete the news every time."

"Poor Zhang Chu actually took the blame. Fortunately, the police sent a message, otherwise he would have been blinded."

Competition among the media is becoming increasingly fierce. In order to compete for the scoop, other media always try to report exclusive news. In order not to fall behind, other media reprint press releases of other media without approving the information source. Some media even deliberately fabricate news and have reports that are completely different from other media.

More and more people distrust the media, not only various newspapers, but even TV news is beginning to question.

The "Ghost Blows Out the Light" incident only made this distrust a little more.

...

"Damn it! He actually wants to sue us!"

After Lu Hong saw Zhang Chu's Weibo post, he was shocked. Someone dared to sue the news media.

Zhao Litao smiled in his heart, and it was nothing to do with him. He sighed and said, "If the other writers were probably going to swallow their anger, but who made you mess with Zhang Chu? He is a little crazy!"

"Didn't this matter end soon? It actually involves the credibility of the media." Lu Hong panicked, "Does he want to sue me or our newspaper?"

"I will only know after the legal documents arrive." Zhao Litao and the others have reported the news that Zhang Chu was suing in the United States before, but now his identity has become a defendant, which is really ironic.

Lu Hong smashed the table with his hand, "This crazy man actually sued us. Do you really don't want to be in the press anymore? Otherwise, we will not report his news in the future and ban him!"

Zhao Litao looked at his colleague with a caring and mentally retarded look and muttered: "It doesn't matter whether our newspaper reports or not. It's not realistic to rely on our newspaper to ban Zhang Chu. The rest of the media will not help in this matter."

The rest of the media are busy cutting off their relationship, so who would want to go to the muddy waters?

"I have to go and ask about the legal affairs." Lu Hong had no intention of going to work at this moment, and got up from his desk and left.

Zhao Litao chuckled twice. As long as his leader is not stupid, he should not lay off himself. Some people acted like he was just trying to help him!

Even though he knew that Zhang Chu was not an angry person and could not afford to offend such a serious boss, he still had to fabricate fake news, but he ended up getting angry.

I found a soft persimmon, but I picked the wrong partner this time!

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