King of Hollywood

"That's it, I'm almost gone, I have an appointment a little later." After the directors had all left, the two in the conference room sat silently for a while, and then Adrian stood up. up.

"Oh? And that... Brooklyn Decker?" Claude asked after thinking about it.

"No, it's something else, Christina Hendricks, as hot as Brooklyn Decker, no, even more rhythmic, full of meatballs." Adrian said with a smile.

"Two women a day?" Claude raised his eyebrows in surprise, "You are really interested, although this is a normal time for you, but I still... can't help but want to shake my head. "

"It's not the same. I got Brooklyn started two days ago, and I called her today just to come to the conference room later." Adrian blinked and smiled wickedly, "I did this for you. Yes, Crowe."

Claude raised his middle finger without hesitation, and then thought of something and asked, "Wait, I remember Christina? Hendricks isn't..."

"Yes, one of the main characters in "Mad Men"," Adrian waved his hand, "although Fox paid a high price to buy it, but I recommend her to play, not to mention that I am a super director. Besides, even if there is no After all this, is it difficult for me to put her in bed?"

"No wonder I can only have a daughter." Claude muttered.

Adrian, who could hear clearly, immediately narrowed his eyes: "Do you think you haven't been beaten by me yet?"

"Hey, I didn't say anything." Claude raised his shame.

"Okay." Adrian smacked his lips, "I heard that Helen is pregnant, I believe it will be a girl."

"It doesn't matter, as long as it's not the same all the time," Claude waved his hand with a smile, and then quickly changed the subject, "Speaking of which, although you successfully drove Fleming out, you also caused me trouble, Ed. I'll bet. Kahn will take me seriously until you nominate another new executive director."

"How is it possible," Adrian laughed, "if he doesn't wink and wake up after this incident, then he doesn't deserve to be on the board. Frankly speaking, Kahn is very capable, but only slightly ambitious. It's a bit older, and Fleming saw this before taking advantage of him, and with this lesson. At least for a long time, you don't have to worry about his thoughts. "

"Well, anyway. We have basically achieved our goal, although..." Claude sighed.

Although everything seems to be under control, and they do plan a lot, in fact, there are many unexpected situations. The most typical example is the video of the cleaner. After investigation, the guy was indeed filmed by shit luck, so this was indeed an accident, and it directly disrupted Adrian and Claude's plan to lure snakes out of their holes.

Long before that, they realized there was a problem within the company. For example, the acquisition case that was sniped, such as the "Mad Men" that was snatched, and so on. These are all things that they are determined to get, but they were all snatched by News Corp, and they all took advantage of their quarrels, cracks, and untimely responses.

The timing was so well-timed that they were not tipped off from the inside. That's absolutely impossible, so the priority is to get this guy out. It's just that, before they even started, they were spoiled by the cleaner's video. And gave the opponent an excellent opportunity to discredit himself. Fortunately, at least one step Adrian and Claude went right, and that is to continue to maintain this mutual indifference, as if they have not reconciled, and secretly collect evidence, waiting for some people to jump out.

Although the price to pay for this will be a bit high, but at the same time it can also clean up some restless guys, and it is not worth the loss.

Fortunately, the final results are basically under control, although Adrian and Claude were also quite surprised when it was determined that Fleming had a connection with News Corp. Murdoch is really generous. However, as long as it is dug up, and after this incident, even if it is impossible for the media to reveal it for various reasons, there is no problem in releasing the news in private. Therefore, it is impossible for Fleming to work in other companies. No one will Hire such a person.

At the same time, they beat the media board of directors, which can be considered a gain, and then...the two people in the conference room exchanged glances, and everything was silent.

As the media board made small adjustments, things started to work in their favor despite rumors of a huge rift between the two founders and the shadow of a failed financing. This disappointed many who wanted to see a good show, which was so loud before, and ended up being such an understatement, which is a shame - except for Rupert Murdoch.

As the person who personally directed this turmoil, Murdoch did not have too many regrets. He knew very well that doing and doing were two different things, and nothing would be 100% successful. Besides, most of his goals have been achieved, and the media will not be able to expand for at least a few years.

It would be very unwise for Murdoch to not want to count the media in this way, if he could, but the situation cannot help him not. If you want to choose the biggest enemy for News Corporation, it is not Viacom, not Time Warner, nor Disney. The biggest enemy of News Corporation is the media.

In less than 20 years, those two young men accomplished what it took him 30 years or more to do, and that's not counting the time he spent in his younger years gaining experience. They can always accurately grasp the context of the times, make few mistakes, and firmly grasp the opportunities of the Internet. Several popular social networking sites are all from Adrian's ideas, even if they are recognized as the most difficult to access, Even in the mainland market, where they also failed, they continued to expand and nibble away from channels such as the Internet and movies after giving up the TV station route.

A lot of practitioners are jealous, and Murdoch is among them, but that's not why he got his hands on it. As a single-handedly developed News Corporation to today, experienced the old fox. He wouldn't be emotional on such a big thing. The reason for doing this is because the media is expanding too fast. Even though it has slowed down in recent years, there is still a lot of room for development. If you don't want to be constantly eroded and squeezed, it is an inevitable choice to contain them.

It's just that Adrian and Claude have a tacit understanding of each other's cooperation, and almost no one can find a chance. Although Murdoch has already settled, he still can't find too many opportunities. this time. If it weren't for the two people's disagreement over the listing, Murdoch might have to wait, and because of this, what he wants to do most is to squeeze Claude out of the media.

Everyone knows that Adrian is visionary and imaginative, but only Claude can bring it all to life. If he can be squeezed out of the media, then it will be equivalent to breaking an arm of the media, even if Adrian wakes up later, and can put his face down and invite him back, and wants to work together as before. Basically unlikely.

Sadly, they were reconciled sooner than expected. Then he blinded everyone and dug out Fleming - this is a pity, but Murdoch has given enough benefits to win over the other party. This kind of thing doesn't have enough benefits, who does it? In addition, the media has not been listed, and has a complete industrial chain, which is in a semi-closed state, so the blow was not particularly big.

Actually, if you can. Murdoch really wants to wait until the media goes public.

But this is enough for now. Although the media is still young compared to other media groups, there are still problems in the foundation, but it is already a behemoth. Such a behemoth can only be suppressed and cannot be annexed or dismembered, and now, although it seems that the media just failed in financing. And the inner ghost was dug out in time to adjust the board members, and it didn't hurt much, but it took a lot of work to settle the series of effects that followed.

And this time, many people have clearly seen the sequelae of the rapid expansion of the media. There will definitely be people who want to start from within them - you know, before Murdoch, the heads of many media groups actually had this idea. The pressure brought by the rapid expansion of the media is not only borne by News Corporation, but unfortunately Only with Murdoch's action, News Corp. has the inevitability of ranking among the top three media corporations.

Of course, when News Corporation started, many people also joined in, but they cooperated tacitly without saying hello. The overwhelming reports about the discord between the two cannot be handled by News Corporation. Similarly, there are people on Wall Street, otherwise, the media financing will not be so difficult, facing a lot of harsh conditions.

If Adrian and Claude are smart enough, what they have to do now is to shrink back and further strengthen their foundation, and before that, even if they want to expand, they have to take it slow.

They should thank me. Murdoch, who was walking at the reception, was somewhat proud. At least I told them the importance of the foundation.

He is indeed qualified to be proud of being able to make such waves within the media in one fell swoop and gain time and opportunity for News Corporation.

"Hey, Rupert," came the greeting, and Redstone's stiff face from the skin graft immediately appeared in front of Murdoch, "Why are you here alone, your beautiful Didn't your wife come?"

"Wendy doesn't like this kind of occasion," Murdoch smiled and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose. "I just had a few words with Congressman Field, and I promised to support his environmental protection bill."

"It's surprising that you will also support the Environmental Protection Act." Redstone raised his eyebrows.

"I always do the right thing." Murdoch spread his hands.

The two old rivals chatted with each other like this, and then a few more people joined, some in the media industry and some in other industries, but they were all decent people.

"Speaking of which, it seems that there is only one of the two from the media today," while chatting, someone suddenly mentioned this, "Didn't they already say that they have nothing to do with each other?"

"Maybe one of them can't come, maybe one of them just thinks this fundraiser will be boring and doesn't want to come - in fact, I feel a little bored." Someone said jokingly, "Don't be schadenfreude, Bob."

"That's right, they're not fools. Are they going to keep arguing?" Redstone also echoed the sentence and glanced at Murdoch at the same time. It's no secret that the black hands under the News Corporation are among several large media groups. .

"Young people always grow up when they encounter setbacks." Murdoch replied with a smile.

Then, a voice interjected: "I did learn a lot. For example, no matter how detailed the plan is, it may be accidentally interrupted, or it is inevitable to be bribed."

Then, Adrian, who was well-dressed with a glass of wine, appeared in front of them. Murdoch's face changed slightly, Lei Shidong raised his eyebrows, and the others were not very good-looking. After all, they were discussing him just now. .

"Hello, Ed, have you gotten out of your busy business?" The one who helped him before greeted him first.

"Yes, it took more than half a month to finally manage to get everything done. It's really not easy," Adrian said with emotion, "Because of this, I can finally free up my hands to do what I should have done. matter."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Someone asked curiously.

"You know, compared to you, I'm still a young man," Adrian smiled and glanced at Murdoch, "so it's impossible to do things with consequences always in mind."

Then, before people could make time, he turned to Murdoch and patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "If you want war, I'll give you war, Rupert!"

After he finished speaking, he left without looking back. After watching him put the cup in his hand into the tray of the passing waiter and disappeared, Murdoch turned his head back and tried his best to control his surprise. In his mood, he forced a smile: "Young people today are really rude."

Then, regardless of the others, including Lei Shidong, he left with a thoughtful expression.

Those remarks were more of a declaration of war than a threat, and yes, Adrian declared war on News Corp. on behalf of the media. Murdoch couldn't help but be shocked. It's only about three weeks before the previous board meeting. Adrian and Claude can at most straighten out internal and external affairs. Even if they want to retaliate, it should not be now.

But in Adrian's tone, this is definitely not a joke. In this case, either they can't lose face and desperately want revenge to re-establish their prestige; or they have caught his unknown pain. Feet, ready to deliver the fatal blow.

With the style of Adrian and Claude, it is obviously not the first one. As long as you analyze it carefully, you will find that although they seem to be lucky, they always make plans and then move, so...

Then, Murdoch wanted to go back to his mansion all the way, even if he wanted to break his head, he could not be sure where they would attack. Even after making a few calls to the assistant and the people below, and asking vague questions, he still couldn't figure it out.

Maybe they're really just intimidating? Murdoch, who fell asleep after tossing and turning in bed several times, thought so.

However, he was soon woken up by the midnight phone ringing: "Boss, it's not good, the "Guardian" has printed an additional issue today, claiming that they have the actual wiretapping evidence of the "News of the World"!" (Unfinished To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (m) to vote for recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)

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