Great Power Technology

Before China releases new varieties of rice to increase production, the two biggest topics in international public opinion are still the Yinba War and food shortages. These two topics have remained hot under the joint hype of U.S. officials and the four major grain merchants. No matter which social media you are on, no matter what content you are talking about, 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 Yin-Pak war will further reduce food production, and the international food shortage will further aggravate.

The second concept is that there is currently a general shortage of food in the world. Even if a certain country has temporary abundant supply, in an environment of frequent international trade, food prices and supply will gradually become in line with the international average level.

These two concepts have really spread a lot of anxiety to the Chinese people. Even under the current situation of sufficient food supply, many people still have vague worries. Even the number of views of survival and wilderness survival videos has increased. Quite a few, spawning a large number of new wilderness survival bloggers.

However, this situation changed quickly after the new rice was announced, but the biggest reaction was not within China - after all, anxiety is anxiety, but most people still have confidence in the strength of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and China Grain Reserves.

Those who reacted the most were the Western media. They had been preparing for three months, just to wait until the U.S. official made all preparations and gave the order to detonate the explosive barrels that had been buried long ago. But they never expected that they would It was originally intended to explode the reinforced concrete fortress, but at some point, it was reinforced with titanium alloy material.

New York, Associated Press headquarters building.

For Gary, this was supposed to be one of the many ordinary days since he became president, but the news he received in the morning forced him to get up at 9 a.m. for the first time and go to the headquarters to attend an important meeting. Meeting.

At this meeting, they will reach an agreement on subsequent arrangements with many of their affiliated newspapers and media, and will unite with other important international news agencies to implement a unified blockade of this news that is very likely to explode in the future. .

Yes, this news is the news just released by China about gene editing to increase rice production.

When he first received this news, he had actually subconsciously formulated a strategy in his mind that included questioning, opposing, slandering, etc. But after a few minutes of careful thinking, he completely overturned it. initial thought.

When things have developed to this point, as a journalist veteran, he has fully understood the situation, and also understands that if it were not 100% sure, China would never issue such a sensitive message at such a sensitive moment. information.

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

Therefore, it is almost impossible to defeat the opponent in terms of public opinion. All you can do is to use your strong control over the news media to minimize the influence of this news and limit its dissemination channels. So that its propagation speed is as slow as possible.

If the scope of dissemination can be limited to China, then for the international community, this is just Chinese people amusing themselves and comforting themselves. But once the news goes overseas and is reported by international mainstream media, regardless of the doubts about it, No matter how big it is, it will eventually be defeated by the opponent's technical facts.

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

After arriving at the office, Gary simply drank a cup of coffee and entered the conference room without stopping. With his arrival, the discussion began.

".I still think that we should report negatively on this news. The reason is very simple: I have communicated with relevant professional scholars, and I understand that the so-called gene editing technology they released relies on the analysis of two extreme Editing of rare gene 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 these two. To use a popular example to explain, our knife is too big and needs to be cut. The cake is too small.”

"Guys, can you imagine using a kitchen knife to cut open a cell? That's the difficulty of their technology - it's completely impossible."

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

"Just imagine, when a group needs to be comforted by false news, it must mean that this group can no longer find more real 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 from the Herald. He wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. He looked less like a media practitioner and more like a research scholar.

Under his leadership, the Herald has indeed become famous for its rigor, professionalism and objectivity.

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

Cut the cells with a knife? This is indeed an appropriate metaphor, but the scholar who raised this question obviously has not thought about what if the person uses something other than an ordinary kitchen knife?

In fact, according to the information he possesses, China had already started the trial of a new type of gene editor as early as two months ago. This was originally a highly confidential project, but due to the number of institutions and personnel involved, Too much, and some information inevitably leaked out, but I didn't follow it up as an important matter at the time.

Not only myself, but even the officials of Chou Country did not take it seriously, and now, this arrogance and contempt has obviously made us pay the price.

Galli raised his right hand to signal everyone present to be quiet, and then said in a low and steady voice:

"Evan, your logic may work on other things, but this time, I can clearly tell you that you must be wrong."

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

"You are a professional media person, so you should also know that for a message to be spread, the most important thing is the initial traffic of the message. If it does not get widespread attention the first time it is released, then there will be no artificial traffic in the future. Expanding its influence becomes extremely difficult.”

"It's impossible that Chinese media people don't know this, but they don't do it. Why?"

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

"An announcement to the public after an actual result has been achieved."

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

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

After Gali finished speaking, the conference room fell into silence. After a long time, a representative from AFP asked:

"So, you're saying we should report this news truthfully?"

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

"We are all smart people, and I believe you also know the purpose of the reports we have made in the past two months."

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

"We are a huge alliance, and our allies control more than 60% of the world's media. As long as we remain silent, we can limit the heat of this matter to a very small range."

"As long as this news is not spread on a large scale, our ultimate goal will not be greatly affected."

"I think everyone can understand this, right?"

After hearing his words, the representative of AFP nodded slightly and then replied:

"I agree with you."

"very good!"

Gary nodded with satisfaction, looked around and asked:

"What about the others?"

"agree."

"agree."

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

This result allowed Galli to regain his confidence. After all, the media group he represents is still the largest media group in the world. To a certain extent, as long as he wants to, he can actually determine the world to a large extent. direction of certain issues.

This time, it's the same thing.