Add Bookmark | Recommend this book | Back to the book page | My bookshelf | Mobile Reading

Free Web Novel,Novel online - All in oicq.net -> Romance -> First American President in History

Episode 1: Running for Mayor Chapter 29: Continuing Fermentation

Previous page        Return to Catalog        Next page

    ps: On Monday, please vote for me and let "President" appear on the newcomer list on the homepage. This is a campaign. Please support me.

    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª

    "Lei, there are really continuous reports!"

    The next morning at the football field, Emily waved the newspaper.

    Wang Lei took it over and took a look. It was the Tribune. The title was "Eighteen-year-old boy ran for mayor. Can tradition be revived? Part 2 of the series of reports." The report mentioned Braddock, but the main body of the content was similar to Braddock.  It has nothing to do with it and does not mention Wang Lei¡¯s name. The article investigated the situation in other communities in Pittsburgh and came to a conclusion similar to that of ¡°Bowling Alone¡±: community life is becoming weak and is in urgent need of revitalization.

    "Hey, I'm off topic. I'm almost on Mars. It seems I have to talk to a reporter from the Tribune." Wang Lei scanned it quickly, shook the newspaper in his hand, and said with a smile.

    It's off topic, but it can still keep the attention he got. The eighteen-year-old boy in the title refers to him, and the "Town Star" badge is slowly increasing as his popularity increases.  Lights up slowly.

    "There is an advertisement for Hawke in the Post, four pages, one full page." Emily pursed her delicate red lips and reached out to click on the newspaper.

    "What?" Wang Lei quickly turned to page four. It was a full-page advertisement, and Hawke stood there gracefully.

    "Wow, what a big deal!" Wang Lei couldn't help but marvel.

    ¡°Hoke, this son of a bitch is really rich.¡± Luca cursed.

    "It doesn't matter. Hawke's increased investment in advertising shows that he is scared. Let's continue to work harder and defeat him completely!" Wang Lei said with a smile, grabbing the page with Hawke's advertisement and tearing it gently.  It was torn in half and thrown to Douglas, the environmentalist.

    His movement caused Luka to let out a strange scream.

    "Rex, 40% of Braddock's people subscribe to the Post, and only 30% of the people read the Tribune." Colin put down the newspaper in his hand and said slowly.  Braddock is a poor town in the United States. Minorities other than whites account for 60% of the population, so leftist views have always been more popular.

    Wang Lei¡¯s position is mostly on the left, but the left-wing Post cannot help him. On the contrary, the right-wing Tribune is doing continuous reporting.

    "It doesn't matter, there are other newspapers, and our own newspaper." Wang Lei said with a smile. The Post's influence is great, but it cannot cover the sky with one hand. Just like most American media are left-leaning. Before Clinton was elected, conservatives  However, Pai firmly held the presidential throne for twelve years.

    What's more, with the reports of the Post, Tribune, and Cable News Channel, Wang Lei, an eighteen-year-old "political star" ("Tribune"), has become like a sharp sword, piercing the thick clouds, for Vietnam.  More and more people know it.

    First, several other newspapers in the Pittsburgh area began to pay attention to Braddock's election and the eighteen-year-old candidate. They either reprinted it or conducted on-site interviews to interpret the two topics involved in the news from their own perspectives:  Community revitalization and economic revitalization of declining industrial areas.

    The Pittsburgh City Herald, which specializes in local news, wrote in their Wednesday paper: "Around Pittsburgh, many towns, like Braddock, fell into decline after the decline of the steel industry, and only a few lucky ones were able to  Get out of the quagmire and achieve industrial transformation. Braddock's two candidates proposed different routes. Which one can win? Can it lead the town out of decline? Especially the community revitalization and peace proposed by the eighteen-year-old candidate  The economic revitalization route that combines traditional methods is very innovative, but does he have the ability and opportunity to implement his plan? We will continue to pay attention."

    The City Herald is a weekly issue, featuring in-depth reporting, a relatively fair stance, and the content of the report is also very favorable to Wang Lei.

    The New Pittsburgh Dispatch is an African-American newspaper whose main readers are African-Americans in the Pittsburgh area. The headline of their report is: "Eighteen-year-old Chinese are running for mayor, and the younger generation of ethnic minorities are participating in politics.  positive".

    In addition, the Jewish newspaper "Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle", even the church newspaper "Pittsburgh Catholic", and the "Pitt News" compiled by students at the University of Pittsburgh have also successively reprinted and reported on it.

    Another television station in Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh local television station kdka-tv and kdka radio station affiliated with CBS, the three major commercial radio and television companies in the United States, also sent people to interview and film Braddock and broadcast it on news programs.

    ¡°Subsequently, out of news competition considerations and believing that the news programs reported earlier had received an enthusiastic response, the cable news station finally sent a special camera team to follow up on Braddock¡¯s campaign.

    This time, the newsThe station is led by a seasoned middle-aged male reporter, and Rachel can only help. However, under her influence, the news station pays close attention to Wang Lei and uses him as a context to connect the entire special news.

    Now, basically every day, Luka can find the name of Wang Lei or Braddock in the newspaper or TV, and then keep exclaiming: "Wow, we are in the newspaper again!"

    Yes, it is "they", they are a team, and any achievement achieved is attributed to this team.

    With the publicity of the news media, some public organizations have also begun to focus on Braddock, including the American Youth Service Organization YSA, the organization "Fulaka-Fatah" for rescuing delinquent youths, the rural youth organization 4h club, and Pittsburgh's non-profit organization.  Large and small associations and clubs such as the for-profit organization "Thomas Morton Center" have contacted Wang Lei, hoping to learn the details of his "community revitalization" plan.

    Their involvement prompted the media to continue to pay attention to Braddock, and the YSA and the Morton Center even considered funding the project, but they had to undergo rigorous inspection.

    The tabloid "The Braddock Man" compiled by Wang Lei and his colleagues also began to appear in the mailboxes of Braddock residents every morning. Its style is completely different from those of Pittsburgh newspapers. The layout is simple, but it is published every day.  Some things that happened in Braddock, or descriptions of buildings in a certain town that everyone knows, and some trivial things on the streets, which make everyone look very friendly.

    ¡°Of course, it¡¯s also indispensable to have a candidate¡¯s self-promotion at the top of his lungs and the campaigners¡¯ touting.

    Brady, Eric, Jaxon, Walker and others have all become providers of material. Even Luka exclaims every day: "Wow, haha, I'm in the newspaper too."

    "A newspaper with graffiti written by elementary school students is like shit!" Hawke would curse this ugly tabloid every day he saw it, but some people did like to read it.

    Judging from the feedback, this tabloid has even become the newspaper with the highest reading rate among small town residents, with more than 80% reading rate, far exceeding the "Pittsburgh Post Post".

    With one week left before the voting day, the new version of the website that Alvin has been working on has finally been launched. The framework of this website is just like that designed by Wang Lei. Everyone can register on it and then have a personal homepage.

    Unlike those personal websites, this personal homepage is standardized and includes the owner's photo, name, house number, and can also display mood, post simple messages, write diaries, etc.

    Visitors can leave their own footprints on the visited personal homepage, such as knocking on the door, signing, commenting, etc.

    The website was originally created for Wang Lei¡¯s campaign promotion, so a voting function was specially designed. Visitors can vote on other people¡¯s homepages, and then there will be a ranking list based on the number of votes received.

    After this website was launched, Wang Lei and others tried it first, and then introduced it to members of clubs and mutual aid societies, and highlighted it through tabloids.

    Temporarily speaking, the functions of this website are not perfect, there are many bugs, the speed is slow, and the operation is inconvenient. However, after the website was launched, the number of registered people that day has exceeded 100 people.

    ¡°Today I visited Alina and Emma from Fifth Avenue and Matt and Michael from Camping Avenue. Michael¡¯s hair style is very cool and Emma¡¯s Labrador is very loving. Their questions gave me a lot of questions.  Inspiration." In the evening, Wang Lei left a message on it.

    "Lei, thank you for your hard work!"

    ¡°I also like Emma¡¯s Labrador very much, its eyes are very cute.¡±

    Emily, Alvin and others quickly commented on this message and clicked the thumbs-up button on the page, which is the "like" button.

    Their comments and actions appeared on their homepage and were then seen by others. Soon, Wang Lei¡¯s message was seen by more people, including Emma and others who had just registered and logged in.

    This website is like a network, and everyone is a node on it. Their information is transmitted on the network, forming communication and interaction. It is very similar to a real social network.

    The situation of the website, especially some interesting things that emerged during the interaction, were published in the tabloid "The Braddock Man". Through this newspaper, many people learned that the town seemed to have another interesting thing on the Internet.  matter.

    In the following days, the number of registered users of the website increased by more than 100 people every day. In just a few days, the number of registered users exceeded 1,000, and it was also noticed by the media that had been paying attention to Braddock.  Their reporters found that through this website, they seemed to be able to learn more about Braddock's developments in a more timely manner.

    ¡°This website is condensing the residents of the town into a social network on the Internet, and it is far and awayMore active than reality, we seem to be seeing community renaissance taking the lead on the Internet" Finally, some media mentioned this newly born website in reports.

    {Piaotia Literature www.piaotia.net thanks all book friends for their support, your support is our greatest motivation}
Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report