Kings of the Game: Getting Back to the Game, Beginning with the NBA

Chapter 44

Anyone who is experienced in dealing with the media will be able to hear that the female reporter deliberately set a trap in the question, and it is the same.

This Chinese female reporter from the Philippines, because of the bizarre life experience of the Filipino maid's daughter, has a strong rebellious feeling towards Dongguo's father in her bones.

That's why he hated Wu Jiwu and grasped at Liu Ming's speech problems.

The purpose, of course, was to make Liu Ming unable to step down and lose face.

Liu Ming himself said just now that he has improved every game. If Liu Ming answered that he could run less than 9 seconds, it would be an inconsistent answer.

The female reporter looked at Liu Ming proudly, ready to appreciate Liu Ming's embarrassment, but she saw Liu Ming's determined expression.

"To be honest, 9 seconds is still too difficult for me."

The female reporter got a very satisfactory answer.

Just when she was about to be complacent, she heard Liu Ming continue: "9 seconds 85 is about the same. This is already the limit of what I can do."

How can it be so easy to accurately control points on the field!
The limit of what Liu Ming can do is to break the record with an improvement of 0 seconds in each game.

"Uh, okay! Thanks for doing the interview."

The female reporter was almost choked to death by this godly sentence, and her temper unknowingly became greater.

She is ready to make a big fuss in this interview.

She will make this ignorant Dongguo person pay a heavy price!

……

Every night, the main committee of the competition will release some news to the media and the public.

This information includes the results of the day's game, information about the next day's game, and interviews with some athletes.

The release method is mainly in the form of official newspapers. Teams from all countries can receive a copy of the newspaper. In addition, journalists from various countries who have registered with the organizing committee before the competition can also receive a copy.

Of course, if ordinary people want to get this residence newspaper, they can also buy it with money.

However, the interview with Liu Ming, the [-]-meter sprinter in the Eastern Kingdom, seemed rather exceptional due to a certain reporter's skillful operation.

Not only was it featured in the official residence newspaper, but also the headline of the famous Philippine media "Manila Times"!

……

At this moment, Raymond, the editor-in-chief of the Manila Times, was secretly delighted when he saw this headline.

"It's okay for the Dongguo people to challenge Bolt without shame, but they even said that they will run to 9 seconds in the semi-finals before breaking the record!"

"Ridiculous! The record is so easy to break! Wait until the semi-finals run within 10 seconds, I'll see how you end up!"

In this news headline, the Filipino swiped his pen to attract attention and wrote the following headline: "Dongguo Flyer Threatened: The [-]-meter semi-final will break the Asian record again, thus challenging Bolt!"

The content not only distorts Liu Ming's remarks of "breaking the record again" and "challenging Bolt", but also is full of satire, belittling and smearing Liu Ming and the entire national team.

The final conclusion is nothing more than telling the reader.

People in Dongguo are proud and arrogant. As soon as athletes have achieved some results, they start to drift away, and they start to lose track of who they are.

The media, both Chinese and foreign, has always been like this——

There is no integrity in the face of sales.

Grasping one or two words can create something out of nothing and confuse the public.

In addition, the mainstream of the Philippines is anti-China and has always been keen to report negative news about Dongguo. Of course, it will spare no effort to seize every opportunity to discredit Dongguo.

But it is precisely this type of report that attracts readers' attention the most.

So, at the same time.

Major foreign media also began to reprint and report without integrity.

With the appearance of this interview, it was like a thunderstorm on the ground, and it instantly pushed the originally mediocre Yatian competition to the cusp of public opinion.

……

Dongguo, Director Li came to the field management center for breakfast on time.

In the luxurious small private room, the staff of the restaurant had already laid out today's newspaper thoughtfully.

After a while, Director Li put the crab roe soup dumpling on the table, and threw the newspaper in front of Deputy Director Ma who was drinking porridge, "Old Ma, look at this."

Deputy Director Ma, with his hair combed back, quickly picked up the newspaper, "Is it arrogance or strength, the Dongguo flyer is declaring sovereignty on the [-]-meter track?"

Read along the text at a glance, and the subject matter is naturally the matter of Liu Ming's interview.

The final conclusion is naturally that Liu Ming's challenge to Bolt is a joke.

At first glance, Deputy Director Ma didn't take it seriously.

When he was a coach before, he often led the national team to various countries.

That’s how the foreign media do it. There are secret stories out of thin air, so he doesn’t care about this report. “A declaration of victory can be hacked like this. Now the foreign media is getting more and more unscrupulous.”

Director Li lit a cigarette, tapped the report with his finger, "Look carefully, what Liu Ming said is not as simple as a declaration of winning the championship."

Deputy Director Ma was taken aback, and quickly picked up the newspaper again to read it carefully.

Soon, he found the description of Liu Ming threatening to run to 9 seconds in the semi-finals before breaking the Asian record.

"Maybe it was set up by foreign media reporters?"

"Young people nowadays, you can eat more food, but you can't talk nonsense."

"Especially in a foreign country! You say he can do whatever he wants behind closed doors, why would he talk nonsense in front of the media?"

"It's okay if he runs to 9 seconds, but if something happens in the middle, it will tarnish our country's image!"

"No, the center has to tighten the strings for him in the future? Tell him to pay attention! After returning to China, immediately arrange several training sessions for him to teach him how to speak to the media."

After hearing this, Director Li put out the cigarette butt in the half-drinked porridge bowl in front of him, "Generally speaking, athletes with poor records will go wild as soon as they succeed, and they can still be saved through criticism and education."

"But if you combine the rumors about him in the NBA, I think that [-]% to [-]% of the content of the report on him by the two domestic reporters should still be credible. This arrogant and indiscriminate shooting seems to be his innate character flaw."

"However, he has super [-]-meter strength. It is understandable for him to say this. A loss also has a future. I am now afraid that he will talk nonsense in other events. At that time, the country will take the blame for him!"

Hearing this, Deputy Director Ma's eyes froze, "So, this Liu Ming is a black sheep with mediocre character and not worth saving!"

at the same time.

Far away in the neon capital, the deputy editor-in-chief of NHK Yamamoto is leaning on a chair, carefully reading various reports of foreign media on Liu Ming, the flying man of the East.

"Arrogance or strength—the [-]-meter champion of Dongguo issued a declaration of victory!"

"Dongguo's fantasy: challenge Bolt and break the [-]-meter world record!"

"Dongguo's contestant threatened to break the Asian record again in the [-]-meter semi-finals in Yatian!"

The deputy editor-in-chief Yamamoto put several reports side by side and thought for a while with his head down.

Then, he picked up the phone on the table.

"Let Ms. Chuan Caizi come to my office immediately. Here are some interesting reports. I think we can reprint them and add some content."

Soon, a news report titled "Ryota Yamagata retired due to injury, and Dongguo's player threatened: Asia's 4×100 event will no longer be invincible" quickly appeared on the news homepages of the five major media outlets.

It is clear!
The media in Neon Nation are fabricating rumors out of thin air, but if readers and netizens who don't know the truth combine the overwhelming reports of foreign media.

For Liu Ming to say such a thing, it doesn't seem to be in the slightest violation of harmony!

(End of this chapter)