Became a CyberPunk Tycoon - Chapter 168



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Episode 168. Eyes and Ears (8)

“Who the hell wrote this article!”

The veteran reporter’s angry shouts resonated loudly. The other reporters held their breath, waiting for his wrath to pass.

“Why… why are you doing that? It wasn’t that unusual of an article, was it?”

The man standing in front of the veteran reporter shook his head as if he didn’t know why the reporter was angry.

Although he had not been with the media for very long, he had been writing articles for two to three years.

I had the ability to judge to some extent which articles were dangerous and which ones were not.

“You, you really didn’t know this… Ha, shit. That’s why I told you to read how other reporters write their articles!”

“I’m just busy with my work……”

As with most news organizations, reporters did not have the luxury of carefully reviewing their stories.

If there was a reporter who wasted time on such trivial matters, the news agency would have fired him immediately.

“Isn’t this just a normal incident? Citizens blinded by money were acting as they pleased during land negotiations… I thought it was just that level.”

Naturally, reporters had no choice but to write articles without hesitation the moment they discovered an issue or newsworthy incident.

“Do you know that this is related to Hansan?”

And the articles written by such people tended to be extremely safe and dry in their descriptions. Speed ​​was everything, and everything else was secondary.

“I know Hansan was involved, but this isn’t the first or second time we’ve published an article like this.”

The young reporter’s words were mixed with confidence. The veteran reporter frowned.

To them, “safe” meant “taking the company’s side,” and “risky” meant “writing articles that are paid for by other companies and insult their competitors.”

When the confrontation between citizens and corporations became like this, they almost instinctively took the side of the corporations.

Citizens cannot change the law unless they gather in large numbers, and there is no one to easily sue for spreading false information. Naturally, they will have no choice but to value corporations more and ignore protesters.

“Ha…… I’m going crazy.”

Recently, several reporters have been receiving money and entertainment from General Techina and writing articles hostile to Hansan.

But they did not think that the act was damaging to their journalism.

With the public focused on Hansan’s scandal, it was only natural that reporters would write articles to meet the demand.

“You’re driving me crazy. Do you know how many articles have been published about this?”

“Well… that’s not the kind of article I write.”

There were quite a few knights prepared to attack Hansan, using justice as a shield.

“You didn’t even tell me.”

Even before Hansanwoo ran wild, numerous media outlets had been intervening in these disputes.

And they took the side of the corporations, as a matter of course, because it was a habit ingrained in them.

“It’s not like I’ve written an article like this once or twice… If it was a problem, you should have cut it out from above. It’s not a problem I should be aware of.”

“Ha…… Okay.”

Of course, even a senior reporter could not say that he could not write such an article ‘because he received money from General Techina.’

“I think this has happened before…….”

The veteran reporter also did not hold any emotional grudge against Hansan.

But when Hansan was attacked by the media in this way, he seemed to escape strangely easily.

“Is it fate that that guy Hansanwoo is following……”

In any case, he had nothing to lose. He might not be able to receive General Techina’s hospitality, but his livelihood would not be cut off.

Nevertheless, this is a failure. General Techina will not trust the veteran reporter.

The veteran reporter came out of the office and lit a cigarette. Soon, a pungent smoke rose up.

“I told you. I told you that you would be fooled.”

I was having a satisfying evening with the reporter standing in front of me.

“Isn’t that too easy? Just like the teacher said, I ‘pretended not to know anything’…….”

Some might think this is a coincidence. I’ll consider it my good fortune that there’s confusion among journalists.

But everything was going according to my plan.

“As promised, I will support my younger sibling’s tuition.”

“Of course. If Hansan’s plan goes as planned, there’s almost no chance of this being discovered…….”

“Even if we get caught, it would be difficult to hold us responsible.”

If you send tens of thousands of dollars directly to a reporter’s account, even if it’s Hansan, you can’t help but be suspicious.

Hansan has a lot of money, but money of unknown origin has its limits. He couldn’t spend such precious money on one reporter.

“Foundation support… I’ve heard a lot about it, but I never thought I would receive it.”

“It’s classic, but it’s always reliable.”

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Through a public interest foundation that Hansan has joined, we create a program to support tuition.

Of course, this is a business where not many people even know that a program like this exists without active promotion.

They use negligence as an excuse to neglect publicity, and allow the important information to be monopolized by a small number of people who Hansan wants.

Create conditions that fit your ‘goal’, such as region, job, school district, family environment, and income.

Even if someone were to look at these terms carefully, the average person would not realize that these terms were created for ‘journalists’.

“I thought I wouldn’t receive this kind of treatment unless I became a city council member or a high-ranking public official.”

“Since he is doing such important work, I can’t just leave Hansando alone.”

“But it must have cost a lot of money.”

As he says, this type of ‘covert funding’ costs a lot of money.

But that was also a satisfactory deal for Han San-woo, the ‘owner of Stella City’.

“It’s not money that’s being thrown away. It’s a good investment at this level. Education requires a lot of investment, and those who graduate from college with Hansan’s money will become Hansan’s talents again.”

“You look far away…… Seonwoo.”

A buy-and-hold purchase has been made. Journalists now have the right to choose between General Techina and Hansan.

No reporter had directly mentioned the name of ‘General Techina’ in their article right away. There was not enough evidence to write about it, and those who were not tactful had not yet figured out the connection.

But just having the ‘fake delegation’ incident in the media is enough to make people suspicious.

Anyone can see that this is a case of power involvement. And, there weren’t many megacorps in Stella City that were large enough to stand up to Hansan.

“And… if you’re interested, you can reach out for some other scoops.”

He may not have realized it, but I had reached out to countless other reporters, including him.

Enzo and his boss complained with expressions like, ‘I don’t want to work… ‘ but they were getting the work done quickly, or even better.

Half of the reason I met him was because I thought his courage, or rather his recklessness, was sufficient.

“Another scoop?”

The article titled, ‘A fake delegation is obstructing the construction of a factory in Hansan’ was not a very tasty article.

What people want is more harsh words and more provocative events, so there was a small price to pay to get journalists to write about it.

But if you give journalists the stories they want to write, the stories that will get them a lot of views, they will write those stories without any compensation.

“I know a journalist who says some of the delegation had contact with ‘suspicious businessmen.’”

“Hey, do you have any pictures or anything? Even if you do, which reporter gave it to you?”

“I’m not a person who does business as a journalist… I got some valuable photos, but they’re all gone.”

I took a chip out of my pocket and placed it on the table.

“You’re not going to submit it as evidence in court anyway, you’re just going to use it as an article, right? Just copy the data and use the copy.”

The reporter nodded. If I say that I got the information from an ‘anonymous source’, he won’t be held responsible for my information.

“I wish you prosperity.”

He quickly checked the photo by connecting the chip to the tablet he brought, and smiled with satisfaction.

I too was laughing while looking at him.

“Why are things going this way! I told you to do it thoroughly!”

The old man of General Techina was yelling at his subordinates in anger.

“That’s… Well, our company’s executives aren’t all that politically competent, are they? After all, it’s inevitable that accidents will happen…….”

The management positions at General Techina are basically technicians or scientists.

They too learned about politics and capitalism through their difficult corporate lives, but they still had some shortcomings compared to executives at other companies.

“I thought you said there was no evidence!”

“Actually, there is no evidence left… but they are just idiots talking on the internet and journalists who write cheap articles. There is no way to silence them.”

There is no physical evidence that General Techina was involved in the incident. There is only a lot of circumstantial evidence floating around the internet.

They may not be able to pressure them in court for this, but they won’t be able to silence the citizens.

“Haven’t you become a laughing stock?”

They tried to bring a ‘high-end Japanese restaurant’ into a slum area that was soon to be demolished. Everyone living outside the central area was ridiculing the new delegation.

“Isn’t Hansan on the move! It looks like he’s been feeding some money to reporters…….”

Of course, they also knew how companies handled entertainment for certain individuals without any fuss.

However, it was a somewhat old method.

Most companies thought it was more economical to just give money outright and then threaten or pay the police and reporters who tried to investigate, rather than using such roundabout methods.

“They are trying to form a new delegation to suit their tastes and conduct negotiations among themselves. We must stop them.”

“But even if we try to stop it… wouldn’t our names be revealed in the process? That’s a bit—.”

“That won’t do. There will be a time when we will have to show our faces and fight, but General Techina can’t be revealed right now.”

But the circumstances outside this small conference room did not respect their hopes.

Because the rumor that General Techina had drawn a sword on Hansan was spreading throughout Stella City.

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