Fifty years ago, a group of reporters personally pushed him into the sea

Adella 2022-01-24 17:48:44

Kill with pen, fierce by gunfire

On January 30 this year, "The Paper" reporter Wang Le wrote an article titled "10 years ago, 14-year-old she sent her family to jail for sexual assault and other charges, and then disappeared..." news quickly became popular on the Internet. , The reading volume is up to several million.

She wrote in the article:

At the age of 14, Tang Lanlan (pseudonym), who was in the first year of junior high school, sent the whole family to prison.
The family members involved in the case are still complaining, and they are waiting for Tang Lanlan to appear.
And where did Tang Yu (Tang Lanlan) go?

In just three sentences, the victim becomes the perpetrator.

She even announced Tang Lanlan's household registration information and called on netizens to find Tang Lanlan.

The girl who had spent 10 years finally crawling out of the borders of hell and regaining her life, the reporter took her back to her original form with just a few words.

On May 4 this year, 3-year-old girl Wang Fengya passed away unfortunately because of "retinoblastoma".

Author Chen Lan published an article "The Death of Wang Fengya's Child", accusing her mother Yang Meiqin of using her daughter's illness to raise 150,000 yuan on platforms such as Dizhuo and Volcano Video, but did not use the donation to treat her daughter's illness. It was used to treat the youngest son's cleft lip, and it was "the use of Xiao Fengya to survive the hope of scam", which pushed Yang Meiqin to the forefront of public opinion.

Spread the rumors with a mouth, refute the rumors and run off their legs. The framed Yang Meiqin spent a lot of energy and time to prove her innocence.

The "anus-free baby" incident that sparked a heated discussion on the Internet in the past few years was also the work of Chen Lan.

A baby girl was found to be born without anus. The best pediatric hospital in Tianjin recommended to give up treatment.

The child’s aunt posted a post on the Internet, asking if the disease was truly incurable, but it attracted a group of virgins, including Chen Lan.

Pretending to be the mother of the child, she rushed into the hospital and forcibly took the child away. On the way, she fed the child who was not medically allowed to eat naturally, and fed breast milk for three hours.

This murderous breastfeeding directly led to enema immediately after the child went to the hospital.

After the incident, she also confidently posted an article titled "Tianjin Baby Girl Before Full Moon Is About to Starve to Death-Live Rescue Progress Live!" ! ! At the same time, it also called on netizens to vote on major websites in an attempt to influence public opinion.

On May 3 this year, an article on the "People" public account titled "After the Olympiad Day Fall" blasted the circle of friends.

Dealing with Yun Hao between the lines was either regretful, sad, or regretful, and pushed Fu Yunhao to the forefront.

Fu Yunhao had no choice but to post a confession book titled "A Confession of a Genius Fu Yunhao: I Haven't Fallen, I'm Down to the Ground" to clarify himself.

The official has not announced the news of "Wolf Warrior 3", some reporters fabricated the news that Dawn Johnson offered hundreds of millions of dollars in rewards, and fabricated Wu Jing's reply.

There are too many similar examples. A large number of reporters made up, malicious speculation, and false reports. They used their pens and keyboards as weapons, stabbing them all over the body.

Maybe a person is more than a scissor hand, and it becomes the middle finger on the news the next day.

The problems of public opinion, false news, and spreading rumors have become more and more serious, and the harm to people is even greater than the artillery fire.

This kind of murderous thing does not just happen in the 21st century. As early as a few decades ago, an Englishman named Donald Crowhurst chose under the double pressure of self-blame and external public opinion. Committed suicide.

On December 6, 1968, Donald participated in the Golden Globe Round the World Yacht Race.

On July 10, 1969, the police found Donald’s boat at sea, but no one was on board. By checking the logbook, they discovered his pretended race plan, and the subsequent mental disorder, and concluded that Crohurst died by jumping into the sea.

His nautical notes recorded increasingly confusing words and sentences. He scribbled about 25,000 words of false voyage logs, poems, philosophy and thoughts, all of which he wrote before he finally went crazy and committed suicide by jumping into the sea.

The incident was adapted into the movie "Pity", with Oscar actor Colin Firth playing Donald, as much as possible to restore Donald's experience during his lifetime.

In 1968, Donald signed up for the Round the World Yacht Race initiated by the Golden Globe Cup. Although he was the owner of an electronics company, he was not rich.

Therefore, he asked the businessman Best to help him build a trimaran.

Best agreed to fund Donald, but if Donald loses the game, he needs to pay Best for the property and company.

Of course, just like historical facts, Donald began to fabricate his sailing experience during the voyage, and eventually chose to commit suicide.

There were two reasons for his suicide. One was the pressure of public opinion, and the other was his limited ability to support his dreams.

In October 1968, Donald’s ship was not ready, and his subordinates also hoped to have more time to deal with the matter.

But when Donald suggested to Best that he wanted to spend more time preparing and set off when everything was ready tomorrow spring, Best refused.

Best refused to give Donald time to make adequate preparations, but made him blindly confident: Pick up your dream and sail to the sea. After all, this is your own choice.

One day after Donald sailed, he complained to Best, and Best responded: Did you call me to tell me that you were going to retreat? Do you want me to tell your family about your decision? Do you want to go back?

Donald cared too much about other people's opinions, he could not let go and return, but chose to move on.

Donald said to himself: If I look back, I will face ruin. Lost the company, and the house. The consequences of that are unimaginable.

He couldn’t continue, and he couldn’t look back. He finally decided to lie about his sailing schedule. He submitted false reports day after day. Saturday said he sailed 277 kilometers, Sunday said he sailed 175 kilometers, and Monday said he sailed 233 kilometers. ... Pretend that your voyage is going well in this way.

And his media spokesman, Holworth, also made a lot of publicity, and the newspapers were full of Donald's reports, making Donald's deeds well known.

And Holworth is even more exaggerated than Donald. Donald hasn't made up where he sailed today. Holworth said on the radio: He bypassed the Cape of Good Hope last Friday, and now he should be in the same Atlantic roaring west wind. With the fight, while sailing all the way to Australia, he is currently the fastest sailor in the game.

Donald was forced to turn off the radio and did not call home. Holworth still wrote close-ups, fabricating news articles one after another, saying for a while that Donald was in trouble in the Indian Ocean, and then saying that he was worried about being on the most dangerous flight segment. Lost contact with lover.

Holworth kept fabricating Donald’s reports in the media. The Sunday Times reporter John also contributed to the incident. He seized the opportunity to spot hot spots and sent people to use his spring and autumn style to write articles that were similar to the UC Shock Department. , If it is placed now, it will definitely read 100,000+.

Not only did John send someone to "write sadly, as if we were temporarily losing contact with him", but seeing that Donald could not be contacted, he even went to interview Donald's wife Claire and made a fuss from Claire.

John sent someone to interview how Claire met Donald, Claire didn't worry about Donald, how the children felt about their father being in the center of focus... They only cared about the sales of the newspaper, not really about Donald and his family at all.

When Donald was still floating on the sea, Holworth started to celebrate with Best Champagne: We toast Donald to celebrate that he is about to become the fastest global navigator in the world.

This group of media people didn’t mean to give up at all. Instead, they went too far. They even wrote Donald on the cover of the Sunday Times, saying “Donald’s name has been remembered by the world” “It’s amazing” “It’s about A story of courage, self-discipline, and unwavering belief in one's own abilities"...

Under their vigorous advocacy, the media kept vying to report on Donald’s deeds. The BBC and ITV were going to send helicopters over. Holworth also arranged a press conference. People even hung up the “Donald Welcome” at the pier. "Go home" banner.

In fact, Donald’s logbook was made up by himself. He didn’t sail far and could choose to go home. But now the media has blown his deeds to the sky, he dare not go home, otherwise he will face criticism and reprimand from the whole country, he will not be able to raise his head for life, so he chose to jump into the sea to commit suicide.

After Donald committed suicide by jumping into the sea, his sailboat floated back to England, which can also reflect that he and England are not far away. Although he could not complete the race, he was fully capable of returning home.

Donald could have thrown the logbook into the sea, making people think that he was unfortunately killed when he almost successfully traveled the world, but he did not. Instead, he left the logbook on the ship as a way of admitting mistakes and begging for forgiveness. The way.

Donald is still too naive. The logbook he left has not only failed people to forgive him, but has become a weapon for reporters.

Holworth had no mercy at all, but maliciously speculated that Donald had no intention of winning at all, and had never thought of being responsible for it.

A group of reporters rushed to Donald's house and began to scramble to interview Claire, despite the pain of losing her husband.

They don't care how Donald and his family feel, they just come to take pictures and write stories.

Last week, they promoted hope and blew Donald to the sky; but when Donald fell into the water, they in turn criticized him and attacked Donald righteously.

Just like Claire said: Even if he did jump into the sea, he was pushed down. Every one of you has a dirty hand pushed on his back, and every photographer, sponsor, reporter, and poor resident at the newsstand is taking pleasure in talking about other people’s faults.

Of course, Donald’s failure to complete the circumnavigation also stemmed from overestimating his own strength and underestimating the difficulty of the world.

The first is that he does not have a ship that can complete this voyage, and the second is that he has never been farther than Falmouth.

The most important thing is that Donald is not a sailor and has never experienced sailing. The competitors who competed with Donald have very rich sailing experience. Some have crossed the Southern Ocean, and some have crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Some have commanded submarines in the war.

Even for these experienced sailors, only one person successfully completed the circumnavigation in the end, let alone a person like Donald who is completely inexperienced?

In most movies, the protagonist is not seen everywhere, everyone says he can't do it, but he endured humiliation and perseverance, and finally won.

"Compassion" does the opposite, discussing the dangers of blind self-confidence.

Inferiority complex is certainly wrong, but conceit is also wrong. If you overestimate yourself and praise Haikou, you will lose face when you get slapped, and even like Donald, you will even feel like you want to die.

Don't be arrogant and see your true level. This is what we can learn from Donald. But Donald is a victim after all. In the final analysis, the culprit of his tragedy is the media, and their responsibility accounts for more than 70%.

Although Donald failed to complete the circumnavigation, he still had the ability to go home, but the media's hype made him dare not go home, dare not face the gesticulations of the people of the whole country, and fell into trouble. In the end, he chose to die.

When Donald was killed, it was too cold-blooded to analyze the reasons for his failure; and this group of media was indeed cruel. It was them who praised Donald at the beginning, and they also criticized Donald afterwards, without conscience and bottom line.

Only the only sailor who successfully completed the circumnavigation, Robin Knox Johnson, did not point to Donald, but did one thing that can really help Donald’s family: donate the 5000 pounds obtained through the competition to Donald’s wife and children, the money was equivalent to £58,100 in 2005 at the time.

Robin is a truly kind, upright, and noble person, a truly compassionate person.

Facts have proved that whenever a popular incident occurs, the person who is vying to report is not necessarily kind. He may just catch hot spots and gain eyeballs; and a penny or a contribution can actually help the person concerned. People who are righteous are those who are upright and noble.

As Claire said to reporters: You promoted hope last week, and now you are criticizing it, and you will change to a new topic next week. But tomorrow and every day in the future, my children will still need their father.

As Yang Jisheng, a senior reporter from Xinhua News Agency, said:

Journalist is a despicable profession, but also a noble profession. Despicable or sublime depends on the conscience, personality and value orientation of the practitioner himself.

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Extended Reading
  • Darby 2022-04-22 07:01:52

    One more star is given to the male and female protagonists. The two British stars with texture and appearance are beautiful no matter how you look at them. Nothing else to see!

  • Alan 2022-04-20 09:02:30

    #Northern Film Festival·Meijia Cinema# is better than expected. I even like this kind of plot that forces the protagonist to an irreversible situation with various reasons. Although the rhythm is slow, the tension is still there, especially in the giant screen hall. A blue sea, not even the sun is dazzling. It is a pity that the movie was adapted from a real event, and there is no turning back when the bow is drawn. This is probably the doomed tragedy.

The Mercy quotes

  • Sir Francis Chichester: A man alone on a boat is more alone than any man alive.

  • Sir Francis Chichester: Because to only do what has been done before is to live one's life in the shadow of other men.