To put it bluntly, his success is actually because of people's pursuit of gossip. Why do modern people pay so much attention to gossip? Behind this phenomenon, there are actually complex social psychology and human needs. In the era of information explosion, gossip is like a clear stream, and with its unique charm, it penetrates into every corner of people's daily life. Gossip often reveals the multifaceted nature of human nature in a relaxed and humorous way, satisfying people's curiosity to peek into other people's privacy. It is like a mirror, reflecting the various life of society, allowing people to taste the ups and downs of the world after dinner.
In the fast-paced life of modern society, gossip has become an excellent way for people to relax and relieve stress. It is like a flavoring agent, adding a touch of color to the monotonous and boring life. In addition, gossip also carries people's desire to seek a sense of identity and belonging. In the process of sharing and disseminating gossip, people can find like-minded friends, form common topics and interests, and thus enhance their connections and bonds. This social interaction based on gossip not only enriches people's spiritual world, but also promotes social harmony and stability. Furthermore, gossip also has a certain teaching
Educating meaning. By understanding other people's experiences and lessons, people can draw wisdom and inspiration from it and avoid repeating the same mistakes. It is like a living textbook, allowing people to learn how to deal with people better in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. To sum up, modern people pay attention to gossip, not simply out of boredom or vulgarity, but from the deep inner desire for human nature, emotional release, social needs and self-improvement. Gossip, with its unique charm and value, has become an indispensable part of modern society, allowing people to find a little comfort and fun in the busyness and hustle and bustle.
But obviously Eddie mistakenly overestimated his status!
He actually tried to expose the real big capital!
You know, the media has never been independent! In fact, from the first day of the birth of the news media, they have been deeply bound to capital!
American media have always claimed to be "freedom of the press", but in fact they have long been "deeply kidnapped" by money politics. The powerful groups control the media and the media resources are highly concentrated. The former "media elites" have long been "unearthed". While the media's credibility has even reached a new low, they are constantly tearing apart the American social sentiment and public opinion. The American news media has a long history. After years of mergers and reorganizations, it has shown a high concentration situation. The main media are controlled by a few consortiums or large families. For example, in addition to the Fox TV, which has the highest ratings in the US News Channel, National Geographic Channel, Wall Street Journal, New York Post and other media, it also owns film production companies, becoming an influential all-media group. The Washington Post has long been controlled by the Graham family and was acquired by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in 2013 for US$250 million.
The New York Times has long been in the hands of the Salisberg family. Since the 1960s, the New York Times has been a staunch supporter of the Democratic candidates in the competition for the US president. Comcast is the largest cable TV provider in the United States and the second largest Internet service provider. Comcast's NBC is one of the three major news networks. The ABC of the three major news networks belongs to Walt Disney Company, and CNN is an agency under Time Warner. These large new new ones are
Wen Group's annual operating income is as high as tens of billions of dollars. In recent years, mergers and acquisitions between news media have been relatively active, which has further concentrated media resources into a few interest groups. In addition to the main news channels, these media groups also have many local sub-channels and affiliated channels, which penetrate into the United States in all directions and provide them with breaking news clues as soon as possible. These media groups not only control major news media in the United States, but also have entertainment such as film production companies, music stations, National Geographic Channel, and other entertainment, professional communication resources, and all-round influence people's lives and ideology.
2016 is the year of the US election. Candidates from all walks of life have used their media resources early to try their best to narrow the distance with voters. However, interacting with the media requires money, and it is not a small amount. During the primary election, the New York Times launched a special issue of "Purchase Power". Among the 120 million households in the United States, 158 families controlled nearly half of the funding sources in the early stage of the election. These 158 families are not only covered in finance, media, technology, energy, real estate, transportation, insurance, medical care,
All industries such as logistics and all live in neighboring communities. The presidential election 8 years ago consumed as much as $1.7 billion, and in 2012 it had reached $2 billion. In 2010, the Supreme Court passed a ruling that American companies could invest unrestricted in campaign-funded rulings, namely the super political action committee with unlimited donations that followed. The emergence of this system has to worry about capital interference in politics and the fairness of policies. Some experts estimate that the 2016 election may consume more than $6 billion.
The American media is becoming increasingly concentrated, and its credibility has declined year by year. Gallup's opinion poll showed that in 2015, only 40% of the people expressing "trust" and "relatively trusting" media, the lowest since Gallup conducted such surveys in 1997. Young and middle-aged people aged 18 to 49 have a lower trust in the media, only 36%. Specifically, the public's trust in newspapers and television is only 20% and 21% respectively, only above Congress and large companies. The American media has two characteristics compared with other media systems in the world: independent of government autonomy and commercial monopoly of private ownership. In the 1960s, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) formulated fourteen principles to regulate the media's public service responsibilities, such as 10% of the time.
The system must be used to broadcast non-entertainment programs. However, in 1984, these principles were gradually abolished on the grounds that "TV programs need to cater to the tastes of local audiences." At the same time, the FCC's control of media ownership was gradually relaxed. In the 1970s, the FCC stipulated that each legal entity could hold up to 7 TV stations, which was expanded to 12 in 1985, and gradually cancelled the upper limit of media ownership after 2003, as long as it covers less than 45% of the local population. This certainly brought more economic benefits to media groups, but at the same time caused a monopoly of information and resources. For example, the number of platforms owned by the top ten media groups in the United States reached 300 in 2002, while this number was only 104 in 1995.
The FCC's loose policies indirectly undermine the diversity and representation of information. In his research on public opinion, American political communication scholar Vincent Price found that the US representative democratic system has shaped the relationship between media, public opinion and candidates to a certain extent: politicians invest a lot of time and money, track and analyze the opinions and trends of voters who are concerned through the media, and then publish polls that are beneficial to them through the media. Of course, media elites will not be at the mercy of politicians. They will screen information through their party bias and present it to voters and politicians in the form of comments, analysis, and data.
According to a survey conducted by the Media Institute and the Associated Press, only 6% of the people are "confident" in the media. The survey shows that the public generally believes that American media reports should be more fair, balanced, accurate and complete. What is ridiculous is that according to a survey conducted by the Brookings Institution and the Public Religion Institute in 2014, the Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart is more "credible" in news than Microsoft National Radio and Television Co., Ltd. (MSNBC). The Daily Show is a news satirical program that satirizes the news stories, politicians, and media organizations that are happening now. In fact, it is
An entertainment program, and Microsoft National Radio and Television Co., Ltd. is one of the major news and television networks in the United States, but the public believes that "Daily Show" is more trustworthy. Media groups have close ties with the political circle and mainly maintain relationships through political advertising. Moody's analyst Carl Salas said: "Political advertising is a profitable business and is becoming increasingly important to the media. Political advertising revenue accounts for 10% to 12% of its total revenue, and the proportion is constantly increasing." CBS CEO Leslie Muvis said: "It is obvious that there are more 'sparks' in the 2016 election, which means more revenue for us."
In addition to the nationally influential cable TV network, local TV stations, especially TV stations in "swing states", will receive huge political advertising orders in election year. According to statistics from Pew Research Center, in the 2012 election year and the 2014 midterm election year, local TV stations' political advertising revenue reached US$573 million and US$696 million respectively. In the non-election year in 2013, local TV stations' political advertising revenue was only US$49.88 million, which shows the investment of parties and candidate campaign teams in the election year.
Not only that, in the election year, other types of media will also usher in rich political advertising revenue. It is estimated that in 2016, the political advertising revenue of media websites, radio stations and newspapers will reach US$1.2 billion, US$916 million and US$882 million respectively.
American media have always been hyped by "freedom", "professional", "objective neutrality", etc., but international observers point out that many American scholars have also admitted that American media reports in many cases from the government's standpoint, especially when it comes to foreign affairs. Of course, these are not stipulated through written laws and regulations, but through the values and "political correctness" of news reporting, which have become universal rules.
In fact, the US media is far from independent. The media relies on the government as one of the main sources of information, and many media therefore sacrifice their principles to obtain news clues first. The New York Times Magazine published a long report in May this year, revealing to the public that Ben Rhodes, deputy assistant to the White House President's President's National Security Affairs, carefully manipulates public opinion on the Iran issue and cultivates "vocal insects" among experts, scholars and media. The article said that the Obama administration has carefully cultivated a large "relationship network", including officials, experts, columnists, newspaper reporters, online writers and external supporters, etc. They endorse the White House with quotes from "high-level White House officials" and "spokesman" in various occasions including social media. The information "revealed" by the White House will "turn into mainstream media reports."
In Rhodes' mouth, some American media's international news reports became a funny game: "All these newspapers used to have foreign correspondent stations, but now the situation has changed. They called us to explain to them what was going on in Moscow and Cairo. Most media would report world news in Washington." Rhodes also said that the reporters who interviewed him "actually knew nothing."
Rhodes’ assistant Ned Price also revealed that reporters are willing to be their “mouth tube”: using the notification platform, each platform has a group of journalists who are specifically connected with them. If the US government releases messages, reporters will "multiple" these messages. In this way, the US media has become an important part of the government's shaping of certain news events. The New York Times commented that this approach is like shaping an "Orwellian-style information space."
In fact, those American journalists are far less great than they think, let alone the Fourth Power, the Uncrowned King, etc.
In short, Eddie was beaten by reality in this situation.
Reality lets him know, reporter... or a paparazzi reporter, you'd better do your business and don't think about doing any independent news investigation reporter... The appearance of that thing itself is full of purpose and reality. Not all so-called independent news investigation reporters are out of so-called responsibility or sense of justice, but some people and certain forces need them to appear before they appear!
But in this case, Eddie obviously did not intend to give up. He still ran to investigate the Life Foundation... and then magically sneaked into their secret base. Really, can't the secret bases of those villains be more tight? They were just touched by a reporter... Of course, Eddie was disguised as a homeless man and was caught in, but it would be too much for you to let him escape again! What kind of shit secret bases are all loose in the mall!
In this state, he was parasitized by venom. So with the blessing of venom, Eddie instantly had great force to fly over the eaves and walls, and he avoided the pursuit of evil forces. But he attributed his own changes to being infected with parasites, which made the venom so badly!
He hurriedly said that he was not a parasite, but a super powerful villain.
He also threatened Eddie with a very arrogant attitude: Don't think about leaving me, I'm very awesome, I'm not afraid of anything, okay, I'm afraid of high-frequency sound waves, and I'm afraid of fire...
Emmm... Looking at the huge mouth of Venom's abyss, he actually felt a little cute.
Venom is not only stupid and cute, but also has a good girl. Facing Eddie's ex-girlfriend, this big monster told Eddie seriously: This girl is so special, I feel like I'm about to fall in love with her. It makes people laugh so hard that they can't stop.
Then defeat the evil villains, and then everyone lives happily together... It's weird!
Then Venom was targeted by SHIELD...
It was also at that time that Kai contacted Venom and learned about the alien biological symbiosis clan. Later, Kai caught one in Japan... but was hacked to death by Kai.