Great Power Technology.

Chapter 356 Blocking News
Before Huaxia releases new varieties of rice to increase production, the two biggest topics in international public opinion are still Yinba war and food shortage. On which social media, no matter what content is discussed, as long as you are active on the information platform, you will involuntarily be instilled with concepts related to these two topics.

The first concept is that the Yinba war will further reduce food production, and the current situation of international food shortage will be further aggravated.

The second concept is that there is a general shortage of food in the world. Even if there is a temporary supply in a certain country, under the environment of frequent international trade, the price and supply of food will gradually align with the international average level.

These two concepts have indeed spread a lot of anxiety to the Chinese people. Even under the current situation of sufficient food supply, many people still have faint worries, and even the number of videos about survival and survival in the wilderness has increased. Quite a few, giving birth to a large number of new wilderness survival bloggers.

However, this situation changed rapidly after the announcement of the new rice, but the biggest reaction was not within Huaxia—after all, anxiety is anxiety, but most people still have confidence in the strength of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Sinograin.

The biggest reaction was from the western media. They have been laying the groundwork for three months, just to wait until the Ugly country officials make all the preparations and give an order to detonate the explosive barrels that have been buried long ago. But they never expected that they Originally, I wanted to blow up the reinforced concrete fortress, but at some point, it was strengthened into a titanium alloy material.

New York, Associated Press headquarters building.

For Gary, this should have been one of the many ordinary days since he became the president, but the news he received in the morning made him have to get up at 9 o'clock in the morning for the first time and go to the headquarters to attend an important meeting. Meeting.

At this meeting, they will reach an agreement with several subordinate newspapers and media on the subsequent arrangements, and they will join forces with other important international news agencies to implement a unanimous blockade on this news that is likely to spread explosively in the future .

Yes, this news is the news that Huaxia just released about gene editing to increase the production of rice.

When he just received this news, he had already subconsciously formulated a series of strategies in his mind, including questioning, opposing, defaming, etc., but after a few minutes of careful thinking, he completely overthrew himself. initial thought.

When the matter developed to this point, as an old journalist in the news industry, he had completely seen the situation clearly, and he also understood that if it were not for 100% certainty, Huaxia would never release such a sensitive article at such a sensitive moment. information.

Now that it has been issued, their technology must be tenable --- especially in the field of "rice", which itself has a leading edge.

Therefore, it is almost impossible to defeat the opponent in public opinion. What I can do is to use my own strong control in the news media field to minimize the influence of this news and limit its dissemination channels. So that it spreads as slowly as possible.

If the scope of dissemination can be limited to China, then for the international community, this is just Chinese people's self-entertainment and self-comfort, but once the news goes out to sea and is reported by the international mainstream media, no matter the doubts No matter how big it is, it will eventually be defeated by the technical facts of the other party.

This is a simple multiple-choice question. There seem to be many options in front of me, but in fact there is only one that is really useful.

After arriving at the office, Gary simply drank a cup of coffee, then entered the meeting room non-stop, and with his arrival, the discussion also kicked off.

".I still think that we should report this news negatively. The reason is very simple: I have communicated with relevant professional scholars, and I understand that the so-called gene editing technology released by them is based on two extremely Editing of rare genetic segments."

"These two fragments can indeed affect the yield and growth cycle of rice, and many of our studies are based on these two."

"But the problem is that with the gene editing technology we have now, no gene editor can complete the editing of the two. To explain it with a popular example, our knife is too big and needs to be cut. The cake is too small."

"Guys, can you imagine cutting a cell with a kitchen knife? That's the difficulty of their technique -- it's completely impossible."

"So, I think that their so-called new production-increasing technology is just a comfort to the public in response to the current pressure of public opinion. This not only does not mean that they have gained an advantage, but that they have reached the brink of collapse."

"Just imagine, when a group needs to be comforted by false news, it must mean that this group has been unable to find more realistic and real comfort."

"We just need to add another fire to this and we can completely burn them to ashes."

The first person to speak was a representative of the Herald. With a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, he looked more like a research scholar than a media practitioner.

Under his leadership, the Herald is indeed known for its rigor, professionalism and objectivity.

But Gary knew that this time, he was indeed wrong.

Cutting cells with a knife?This is indeed an appropriate metaphor, but the scholars who raised this question obviously did not think about it, what if people do not use ordinary kitchen knives?
In fact, according to the information I have, as early as two months ago, Huaxia had started a trial of a new type of gene editor. This was originally a project with a high level of confidentiality, but because of the institutions and personnel involved Too much, it is inevitable that some information will flow out, but I didn't take it as an important thing to follow up at the time.

Not only myself, but even the Ugly country officials didn't take it seriously, and now, this arrogance and contempt obviously cost itself the price.

Gary raised his right hand, signaled for everyone present to be quiet, and then said in a low and steady voice:
"Evan, your logic may be tried on other things, but this time, I can tell you clearly that you must be wrong."

"The reason is very simple. You should have noticed that after Huaxia officially released this news, their allies did not immediately follow up and report."

"You are a professional media person, so you should also know that the most important thing for a message to spread is the initial traffic of this message. If it does not receive widespread attention in the first time it is released, then think about it later. Expanding its influence becomes extremely difficult."

"It's impossible for Chinese media people not to know this, but they didn't do it. Why?"

"Because their purpose is not to form influence at all, this is just a routine news notification."

"An announcement to the public after the actual results have been made."

"Believe me, this news is just the beginning. They must have really made rice production increases, and they will definitely follow up in the next few weeks or a month. The content of the report is the real growth and development of rice. Harvest situation."

"The news at that time is the news that they will really spread on a large scale."

Gary's voice fell, and the conference room fell into silence. After a long time, a representative from Agence France-Presse asked:
"So, you're saying we should report the news as it is?"

"No, of course not. That's exactly the purpose of today's meeting, and I hope to reach an agreement with everyone here not to report this news from any angle for the time being."

"Everyone is a smart person. I think you all know the purpose of the reports we have made in the past two months."

"Now, the technological breakthroughs of the Huaxia people have brought major challenges to our goal, and we cannot refute them, so there is only one strategy we can adopt: remain silent."

"We are a huge alliance. Our allies control more than 60.00% of the world's media. As long as we remain silent, we can limit the heat of this matter to a very small range."

"And as long as this news is not widely disseminated, our ultimate goal will not be greatly affected."

"I think everyone can understand this point?"

Hearing his words, the representative of Agence France-Presse nodded slightly, and then replied:
"I agree with you."

"very good!"

Gary nodded in satisfaction, looked around for a week and asked:
"And what about the others?"

"agree."

"agree."

The BBC and Reuters expressed their positions one after another. In the end, the meeting reached an agreement in a friendly atmosphere.

This result allowed Gary to regain his confidence. After all, the media group he represents is still the largest media group in the world. direction of certain issues.

This time, it is the same reason.

(End of this chapter)