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"Hey, hey, hurry up and collect the relevant reports about the literary awards of the Man Tan Society. It's best to find some insiders."

"By the way, does the writer named Men Xie Youzhen have public photos? Hurry up and find out if he is with a woman, and sort them out!"

While these reporters were scrambling to collect information, other reporters made up other aspects.

Does the Mystery Writers Association want to achieve some goals through Hiroto Akihara?After all, in the past few years, each of these big publishing houses wanted to promote their own awards.

As soon as this incident was exposed today, the credibility of the Mantanshe Literary Awards would be ruined.

Even if she wins an award in the future, it is estimated that some people will think that it is an award won by nepotism...

In addition, is there also an open and secret battle between the writer and the publishing house?

A reporter's eyes lit up, and he immediately stood up and continued to ask questions, directly asking related questions, and even dug some holes in his words.

But Hiroto Akihara was not stupid, but he answered evasively, directly ambiguous some key points.

After finishing what he wanted to say, he returned the discourse control to Kawai Shinta on the grounds that this press conference should focus on the "Mystery Writers Association Award and Newcomer Award".

Today's press conference, although he has already received hints from the association, but he is already enough to overwhelm the audience, so it is better not to say too much.

Hiroto Akihara bowed and sat back in his seat.

Looking at the flashing lights that were still on, Akihara Yuto slowed down his expression.

What can be said has already been said, and the rest is left to read tomorrow's report!

[148.1Chapter 17 The War of Public Opinion]

In the morning of the next day, what Akihara Hiroto said at the press conference was quickly revealed to the public through newspapers from all over the country.

Except for some media, because of the business impact of Mandanshe, they only chose to avoid important reports.But this part of the media only accounts for a small part of the total number of all media.

After all, for the vast majority of media, Mantanshe is just one of many customers, but the public's attention is the real benefit!

And the law does not blame the public, since my peers have reported it, you can't just criticize my family, right!

With such a plan, a large number of news headlines containing gimmicks appeared in the newspapers of these media, and the content of the headlines was even more varied.

Some are called "Genius Writer Dangerously Suicide Due to Mandanshe Persecution", some are called "Genius Writer Publicly Speaks, Rebukes Mantan Awarding Shady", and some are called "Mystery Writers Association Publicly Criticizes Mantanshe? ".

But no matter which report it is, the content in it is very similar. In addition to explaining what Akihara Hiroto said, he also interviewed some insiders in the publishing industry to introduce the cause and effect of the incident.

This made many people know the name Akihara Yuto for a while, and they couldn't help but feel sympathy in their hearts.

After all, from these reports, Hiroto Akihara has been portrayed as a perfect victim.

The so-called perfect victim means that there is basically no point to be criticized or attacked, and there is no unreasonable behavior that violates the norms.

Hiroto Akihara, himself an orphan born in an orphanage in Hokkaido, has become a debut writer through his talent and hard work.

It can be said that he is a successful case of class counterattack in neon society.

In addition, it was also proved that Hiroto Akihara has been busy with work.

After all, less than half a year after his debut, he has created four works including the "ZOO" series, "Suspect X", "Death by Negligence", and "Death of a Reasoner".

This speed can already be regarded as a very productive writer.

A talented writer who was born in poverty, changed his destiny through struggle, and had few moral blemishes, unexpectedly ended up being banned because of Mantansha's selfishness.

It proves that individuals are vulnerable to capital and financial groups!

But this made many people feel a sense of sadness when the rabbit dies!He even gritted his teeth at Mandansha!

Many people wrote complaint letters one after another and sent them to the headquarters of Mandanshe, asking the relevant personnel to make a public apology.Even at noon one day, Mandanshe couldn't get through to the complaint call for a while, and was overwhelmed by dissatisfied people.

In response to outside public opinion attacks, Mantanshe did not sit still.

After the vice president Hikasa Ken took a taxi back to the headquarters overnight, the PR Bureau quickly launched relevant actions, and quickly launched a series of response measures in the next few days.

As a big publishing house, if it immediately admits its mistakes and holds a press conference to apologize, it is no less than publicly admitting to the outside world that it has indeed done these actions and falsified in the Mantanshe Literature Awards.

But in this case, the image public relations that Mantanshe has spent a lot of money in recent years will undoubtedly fail.And it will also cause Mandanshe's literary business to suffer a major setback.

Once the name of persecuting debut writers is confirmed, in addition to other writers not choosing Mandanshe to contribute in the future, the current cooperating writers will also choose to change jobs.

After multiple considerations, the Public Relations Bureau of Mantanshe contacted some media with in-depth upstream and downstream cooperation, trying to start "fishing in troubled waters".

First, Kikuchita, who was located in the Shikoku area, hurried back to Tokyo, and quickly arranged some media interviews, deliberately emphasizing Akihara Hiroto's arrogance and various "big name" phenomena in the cooperation process.

After these reports were released, they did have some effect, causing a small number of people to become "dubly convinced".

But on the whole, due to the late release time and the small number of reports, most people did not buy it very much.

After all, no matter from which angle you look at it, as a new writer, Akihara Hiroto doesn't have any reason or motivation to take the initiative to offend a behemoth like Mandansha.

After discovering that the effect was limited, the Public Relations Bureau of Mantansha found Aiko Asano again, trying to get her to come forward and accept an interview with a TV program in Tokyo with Tai Kikuchi, and prove Hiroto Akihara's "character problem" during the interview.

Aiko Asano "hesitant" for a day, on the condition of accepting a TV interview, then asked for a salary increase and job transfer.

After communicating with the higher-ups, the PR Bureau immediately agreed.

Although Takei Kohei objected to this plan, but at the request of the Public Relations Bureau, the plan continued as usual.

……

The time soon came to the day of the TV interview. Aiko Asano was sent to TV Tokyo by a car with Kikuchita, and took the elevator to the interview site.

This live interview was scheduled at 9:[-] p.m., and the time location was only slightly behind the prime time, so from the perspective of the audience, the data was extremely impressive.

In the plan of the PR Bureau, if the editor-in-charge of Hiroto Akihara who expressed his "thank you" before can prove his arrogance, it will certainly be able to reverse the unfavorable situation in public opinion for Mandansha to a considerable extent.

TV TOKYO, interview scene.

The good-looking hostess held the microphone, and asked Kikuchi Tata and Asano Aiko who were sitting on the other side with a gentle attitude: "Editor Kikuchi, can you briefly describe what you have for Akihara Yuto-sensei?" What do you think?"

Sitting on the sofa on the other side, Kikuchita nodded, and then replied: "I personally admire Mr. Akihara's talent, especially in terms of business, which is very attractive to readers. But..."

"But?" The hostess nodded suspiciously.

Kikuchita continued: "But I personally think that Akihara Yuto's works are too commercial in nature, thus ignoring the literary nature of creation. Therefore, Mandansha decided to award the silver award of the literature award to the other party, and I hope this will sharpen him to continue to explore on the path of literature.”

What he said came from a manuscript that had been written and handed over to him by the Public Relations Bureau. The purpose was still to restore the public image of Mandanshe.

Among the series of reports that are unfavorable to Mandansha, a very important point is the unfair treatment of Hiroto Akihara in the Mandansha Literary Awards.

So now it is necessary to avoid the truth and use another reason to divert the public's attention.

What he said now is to tell the people a fact.