Chapter 122 Glenn and Anita
Listening to Brand's angrily scolding and scolding, Glenn felt very dissatisfied, but he lowered his head and said nothing.≥
He is just an intern reporter in the sports department of the Daily Mirror, and he is directly under the jurisdiction of Brand. Brand is his immediate boss. If he contradicts his immediate boss, he will not even think about spending his internship and becoming a formal reporter.
Glenn likes the job very much and is well paid, so he doesn't want to lose his job just like that.
So he could only endure it.
In fact, it is not easy for Glenn to get this internship. The Daily Mirror is not something that anyone can enter just because he wants. Even if he is just an intern reporter, the requirements are very high. With his resume, it is almost impossible to stand out from the competition among hundreds of people. He also came in with "relationships" because he has a good friend who can still speak in the Daily Mirror, so he passed the interview directly.
But Glenn doesn't want to rely on his friends. He hopes to rely on his own abilities, make progress in his work, and rely on his own abilities to work hard.
In this way, you must not contradict Brand.
Brand fired him, and he had no shame to talk to his friends again.
But listening to Brand's words and thinking about his work in recent days, Glenn still feels very unhappy. The most unhappy thing is reporting on Derby County. He likes football very much and watches Premier League and League One games on weekdays, and still knows some team information very well.
Before entering the Daily Mirror, he knew about Derby County and their young Chinese coaches. At that time, many media were not very good at Wansheng's reports. Glenn was very angry when he read it. He felt that it was a report made by the media with discriminatory eyes, not a neutral report at all. After coming to the Daily Mirror's sports department as an intern reporter, he confirmed his former speculation - because he was taking over the job.
For several days, he has been helping with the Derby County competition.
Brand only has one requirement for this. That is to try to downplay Derbyshire's victory and downplay the role of Derbyshire's Chinese coach. Glenn was disgusted with this, but he still had to write relevant reports for work.
Brand's anger made Glen very unhappy. He was also very unhappy when he made these reports, but in the face of his immediate boss, Glen could only endure it like this. After Brand's anger stopped, he asked in a low voice, "So, Mr. Brand, what should we do?"
Brand was in a bad mood today because Derby County's results were getting better and better day by day.
Thinking about the damn Chinese coach, he felt angry when he thought about the ugly things he had made himself public. A while ago, when he heard Derby defeating Tottenham Hotspur, he knew that it was impossible to satirize Derby's achievements, so he thought of a way, which was to downplay Derby's victory.
Derby County has defeated Tottenham Hotspur and beat some small teams in the league. Isn't it normal?
This explanation is too reasonable.
So these days, on the physical newspapers and official media comprehensive websites of the Daily Mirror, the news that appears only slightly mentions the victory of Derby County, and emphasizes to readers that the victory of Derby County is normal. There is nothing special to say.
But with Derby County's successive victory, this statement doesn't work...
A league victory is normal, but it often wins the league. Even if it is 'very normal', it would be a fool to treat readers as a fool.
So the Daily Mirror received a lot of complaints.
More than a dozen complaints were called, leaving Brand completely disheartened. He didn't know that he could not continue like this. When he saw Derby County defeating Reading, he knew that he had to change his strategy again.
But what should I do specifically?
Brand had no choice, so when he saw Glen write another report that "dilution" Derbyshire, he directly denied it and scolded Glen angrily, which made him feel much more comfortable, but when he heard Glen's question, he felt a little angry again.
"What should we do? You idiot! Can't you think of a way?"
'You called me stupid, and I still wanted to find a way...' Glenn rolled his eyes, but he didn't dare to say it, so he could only try to ask, "Mr. Brand, why don't we make some praise for Derby County?"
Brand immediately became angry, "Praise! Praise that damn Chinese! Bastard! Shit! I won't do that! The Daily Mirror won't do that either!"
Glenn sighed.
To be fair, Glenn felt that no matter how much he praised the Chinese coach in Derby County, he did lead Derby County to create a miracle. The praise for a few words was just a very ordinary report, but obviously this would not work in front of Brand.
At this moment, Brand suddenly spoke, "Praise! Praise...yes, Praise!"
As he said that, he stood up, paced a few steps in the office, clapping his hands, and a gloating laugh appeared on his face, "Yes! We want to praise him! What a good idea! Not just praise, we want to write a big report to praise him, and write him as the number one coach in English football! Yes, that's how it should be!"
Glenn couldn't understand it, and he looked at Brand in confusion.
Brand patted his shoulder and said, "You are still young and don't know much about these things! You should know that if you praise too much, it becomes flattery! In the media industry, there is a term called 'praise'!"
Glenn opened her mouth, a little stunned.
Brand nodded and continued, "We have changed our strategy during this period. Didn't those readers say that our reports are untrue? Shouldn't we downplay the Derby County game? Then listen to them! We should praise Derby County and their Chinese coaches. Glenn, you are responsible for writing such manuscripts. Don't be stingy with praise. Your manuscripts should make me feel goosebumps all over my body and describe that Chinese man as the world's number one coach, haha..."
"The world's number one coach...is really funny..."
Brand kept laughing.
Glenn still didn't understand, "Mr. Brand, do you mean, I want to write a special report praising Derby County and Wansheng?"
"What Wansheng? Call him a damn Chinese!"
"Okay! It's a damn Chinese."
"Yes, that's it. Just write such reports. The more you praise, the better. At that time, there will definitely be many small media following the trend. That Chinese will definitely see the reports. As long as we praise him and praise him, he will always see these reports and think that he is arrogant and will make careless mistakes. At that time, it may even make Derby County's performance plummet!"
Glenn was really stunned.
He didn't expect that Brand asked him to praise Wan Sheng for this purpose. In the professional football circle, many young players are described as super geniuses when they have achieved some success. Then they are likely to be unknown afterwards, like shooting stars across the sky. There are many such players. Among them, the media's role in praising and killing is really great. Unknown players will feel that they have become stars, and they will be immersed in media reports and will no longer make progress.
But if this is on the coach, it seems to be feasible... Other coaches probably won't succeed, but Wan Sheng is too young, he is just 27 years old... Now he is going to do this with his own hands?
Glenn felt it was hard to accept, but Brand said it firmly. This is his job task.
Finally, Brand also gave a summary of indicators, "We want to describe Derby County as better than Manchester United, and Beverguson, who is described as the damn Chinese, Wenger is still capable!"
After Brand left, Glenn sat in the office. He could not type a word in front of the computer screen.
He felt helpless.
Glenn felt that doing this was wrong, but it was his job, and if he wanted to keep it, he had to listen to Brand.
He wanted to remind Wansheng again.
But one thing is that he has no way. The other is that he is now an intern reporter of the Daily Mirror. When he informs Wan Sheng, he is definitely suspected of "cooperating with the enemy".
"What should I do now? Should I really do what Brand said?"
“But do I have any other options?”
Glenn smiled bitterly.
This thought has been wandering in my mind and it can't be gone. Glenn has been like this all afternoon. After finally getting a report that satisfies Brand, Glenn just came home from get off work. He tossed and turned for a long time that night and couldn't sleep. So when he went to work the next day, his eyes were covered with blood.
In front of the office building, he met his good friend Anita, who was the college classmate who introduced him to work here.
Anita wore a dress that highlighted her slim figure and looked very beautiful. She seemed to be wandering here and was not here to work at all, but many people passing by said hello to her friendly.
Glenn knew that Anita's family affairs were good, but she was not sure how good it was.
But he doesn't need to understand this either.
He has a girlfriend and gets along very sweetly. He and Anita are only good classmates and friends.
Anita also saw Glenn. She walked over and asked strangely, "Glenn, why do you look like this? Have you worked late recently?"
Glenn shook her head, "I just can't sleep at night."
"what happened?"
Glenn said nothing.
But Anita kept asking questions and even directly chased him into his office, and Glenn had to tell the matter.
"Wansheng?" Anita thought, "I seem to have heard of this name."
Glenn said, "He is very famous! He is only twenty-six years old and has become the head coach of Derby County. He should be less than 27 years old, but he has led Derby County in the League One..."
When talking about Wan Sheng, Glenn immediately said a lot.
Anita rolled her eyes when she heard this, "Do you admire this Wansheng?"
Glen nodded, "Of course, I knew him half a year ago, he was a man who could create miracles, and you don't know, he was also a genius, a top student at University College London, and..."
Anita hurriedly interrupted him, "Anyway, do you think Brand's approach is wrong? Are you just struggling with this?"
Glen nodded.
Anita looked at him for a long time and smiled, "Glenn, you're just too kind."
Glenn smiled bitterly, "Can you give me some advice?"
"You just do what Brand said." Anita said, "Brand is an old reporter. He probably has some personal emotional factors when doing this, but this has no loss to the Daily Mirror. Glenn, we are the media, and we cannot report according to our preferences, but this is by no means fair. If you want to be a reporter, you must remember this."
"Bland's approach may have provoked the enemy for the Daily Mirror, but we don't care about the enemy at all. We are the media and we are a big company. What we care about is not the enemy, but the sales of newspapers!"
"According to your words, he is a genius and can create miracles, so he will definitely not lack supporters. As enemies and opponents, we will be more beneficial to the sales of newspapers. You must understand these."
Glen nodded blankly, and he realized that Anita was much more mature than him.
Compared to Anita, he was as childish as a child... although he was actually one year older than Anita and was still a man.
After coaching Glenn for some time, Anita walked out with satisfaction.
A cart full of newspapers passed by. She took out a newspaper today and opened it. She saw the face of a Chinese man on the front page of the sports page with the name - Wansheng, and then she read it carefully.
This is a report written by Glenn yesterday.
The above carefully wrote Wan Sheng’s resume and his experience in coaching Derby County. At the same time, he also praised Wan Sheng. The information revealed in the text is that this is a super genius in the football world and will become the best coach in the world in the future. Even now, it is not worse than those big-name coaches.
He has a brilliant present and a bright future.
Anita read the report all the time, covered her mouth and laughed, then she turned back to the large photo of the sports version homepage, stared at it for a long time, blinking and talking to herself, "Is this the Chinese who Glenn admires? It's really interesting..."
Chapter completed!