Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 194 A strong counterattack

At night, Kevin Merida, executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, took off his glasses and lay down to sleep. A loud phone ringing came from outside.

 His wife slapped him in the face, blaming him for not turning off his phone and asking him to get out and answer the phone.

Mr. Kevin Merida sighed and could only put on his thick glasses again and go outside to answer the phone.

The call was from James, a reporter from the entertainment section of the newspaper. James told him that just now, Link sent a tweet in response to Lil Wayne and the rumors on the Internet in the past two days.

James believes that this tweet has high news value and is likely to become a key news item tomorrow. He suggested that he take a look at it and see if he should write a report tomorrow.

Mr. Merida sighed helplessly. Before the Internet, hot news would come out every few days or months.

  Sometimes people create fake news because there is no good news.

With the advent of the Internet, there are one or more hot spots a day. In order to cope with these news, the workload of journalists will also increase exponentially.

 In the past, they had a few days off every month, but now they are no longer guaranteed leisure time on weekends and after get off work. They are busy every day, but they have to accept this change.

 With the advent of the Internet era, the survival of traditional media such as newspapers has encountered unprecedented challenges.

If they cannot adapt to this change, they will be eliminated sooner or later. If they are eliminated, they will be unemployed, and if they are unemployed, they will go bankrupt. That would be too bad.

Mr. Merida opened the Twitter software on his computer. He also followed Link, so he quickly found the tweet posted by Link ten minutes ago.

Link wrote in a tweet: 'I respond positively to the recent news that Lil Wayne and others have accused me of being good at hyping up.

Yes, I am good at hyping myself. For this reason, I went to China and won an Olympic gold medal. I participated in the WBA super middleweight championship challenge and won the world boxing title. I participated in the Universiade and broke four A swimming record, eight gold medals, and seven gold medals at the World Championships.

　　Yes, I am good at hype. For this reason, I specially wrote an album to realize my dream of being a singer. Thanks to the support of my fans, "The Fighter" sold more than five million copies worldwide.

With the encouragement of my fans, I wrote a second album.

At present, the album has sold more than 1.9 million copies in North America. Two singles from the two albums have topped the singles chart, and 16 songs have entered the hot 100 singles chart. Oh, and "I\'mTheOne" has won the rap chart. First.

　　Yes, I am good at hype, but I am even better at speaking with strength. ’

Mr. Merida read it over and felt that Link still had some words to say, but Twitter could only send 280 characters, so he could only write these.

However, these paragraphs can also convey Link's attitude towards recent rumors, which is a kind of disdain.

With his achievements in boxing and sports, any one of them can make him a sports star, not to mention a popular singer with two best-selling albums.

 Does people like him need hype?

 Yes, it is needed! But it’s not him, it’s the media and America that needs it.

 The media industry needs to use its news to attract the attention of the audience and sell news products.

The United States also needs to use its stories to sell its culture and image, and tell the story of the American dream to people all over the world, thereby attracting more talents to come to the United States to pursue their dreams.

The recent news hyping up Link’s black material in the media and on the Internet is also driven by interests.

 Because Link has become very famous recently, whether it is criticizing him or praising him, people will pay for it. As long as the news is linked to him, it will sell well, so it is impossible for the media not to report it.

 Including large newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, they also pretended to be objective and neutral in yesterday’s news.

 Commented on the conversation between Lil Wayne and others on the CBS TV show.

  I’m not saying that Lil Wayne and others are talking nonsense, nor that Link is not hyping up.

Only write comments that are acceptable to fans of both Link and Lil Wayne.

ˆOn the one hand, this will not offend the parties involved and their fans, and will not cause legal disputes.

On the other hand, if the two want to continue their public opinion war, they will need to spend money on public relations, and the Los Angeles Times will also be a beneficiary.

 So Mr. Merida, as well as all media practitioners, hope that this dispute will continue.

 They can sell more newspapers by covering these stories.

 It’s just that times have changed.

Mr. Merida put down his cell phone and wiped the sweat from his face with a towel.

 Since the establishment of social networking sites such as blogs, Facebook, and Twitter, the media’s right to speak has been largely deprived.

 Public figures can use social platforms to express their opinions directly to specific groups of people without resorting to traditional media.

Like this tweet from Link.

Ten years ago, he needed to contact a TV station or newspaper, pay a public relations fee, and ask reporters to conduct an exclusive interview with him to express his views or attitudes through media channels.

 But now Link sends it casually.

Link has more than 8 million Twitter followers. Even if there are only one-tenth of the active users, the communication effect is extremely amazing, comparable to that of a large newspaper. Now Link has publicly expressed his doubts about recent public opinion. Although it is only 280 words, every sentence is full of gold. No one can question it, not even the large media.

 According to Mr. Merida's grasp of public opinion.

 Because Link’s response is very powerful, it will be difficult for news questioning him to find a market, and doubts about Link will gradually decrease in the media and on the Internet.

It’s also because Lil Wayne and others publicly admitted that they were competing with Link for the ranking.

ˆThe media and public will turn their attention back to the dispute between Link and the East Coast singer.

Mr. Merida thought for a while and called his editors and reporters.

 Ask them to remove the commentary article questioning Link from tomorrow's newspaper and replace it with an article commenting on Link's achievements. In the article, they discuss whether his current fame is due to hype or strength. The conclusion is that he is worthy of his reputation.

 After making a few phone calls, Merida looked at the time. It was around nine o'clock in the evening, and she thought she would have to send out a manuscript tomorrow.

He really loves and hates Link. He loves him for taking the initiative to send news, but hates him for tweeting at this time, forcing people to work overtime.

With the exception of Merida, after Link tweeted, many journalists had to get up to read the tweet and the comments below.

Just three hours after the tweet was sent, it received 1.04 million likes, 158,000 retweets, and 115,000 comments.

 Many journalists were shocked by these data.

Link posted a tweet at around 8 o'clock, which was already evening, but within three hours, it still received more than one million likes and support. His fan activity was too high.

 Most of the messages in the comment area are supportive.

Some people marvel at his achievements, thinking that a person like him, who is good-looking, talented and powerful, can become a big star without any hype.

 Some people asked him to participate in more sports meets, win more gold belts, write more albums, and hype them up openly to make those anti-fans angry.

 There are also some fans who are more considerate and ask him to go to bed quickly and not to be affected by the negative news. No one will believe it anyway, and everyone will always support him.

In addition to these, there is also a special comment with more than 30,000 likes.

Those comments suggested that Link should pay attention to the time when tweeting in the future, and try not to post it in the morning and evening. User activity is the lowest during these two periods, and the effect is not good.

Merida and other news reporters saw this comment and liked it one after another to support it.

 Link got up the next morning and responded to this comment, saying that he understood and apologized to everyone.

 “When did you send this tweet?”

At the dining table, Taylor flicked her cell phone and asked.

“After doing it for the third time, take a break in the middle.”

“It feels like you are boasting about yourself, condensed into one sentence, I am so awesome, do I still need to hype?”

Tyler teased with raised corners of his lips.

 “This is true, isn’t it?”

Link put the bread into his mouth, raised his hand to take away Taylor's mobile phone, and asked her to eat quickly. Taylor rolled her eyes at him and punched him again when he wasn't paying attention.

 After dinner, he sent Taylor to the recording studio to practice singing, and then went to a nearby boxing gym to train.

In the past two months, he not only has to promote the album, shoot the album MV, film the movie "Valentine's Day", but also have a boxing match.

Link will face WBC super middleweight champion Carl French in a combined WBA-WBC world title fight.

Carl French is a British boxer. He is 32 years old and debuted in 2002. He currently has a record of 26 fights, 1 loss and 24 KO wins. The only defeat was when he lost to Mikkel Kay when he competed for the WBA European boxing championship last year. Sler.

  But in the first half of this year, in the battle for the WBC super middleweight title, he successively defeated Polish champion Albert Roibach, Canadian boxing champion Jean Pascal, and Jermaine Taylor.

 And Mikkel Kessler, who once defeated him, won the WBC world boxing championship gold belt.

  Nicknamed ‘Cobra’.

Famous for his extremely fast speed and tricky and ferocious jab.

 Very strong.

Another important point is that when Franco was negotiating with Carl Franche's agency, the other party agreed to compete, but the location of the competition would be in London, England.

The disadvantage of competing abroad is that if he cannot KO his opponent within 12 rounds, even if he has a clear advantage in the game, he is very likely to be awarded a loss.

 So before the game, he must take time to train and maintain a good game condition.

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 (End of this chapter)