Hollywood Hunter

Greenwich, the mansion of the Hearst family.

The time is more than eight o'clock in the evening.

William Hirst III hastily ate dinner with his family and came to the study, followed by his personal assistant Roger Halls.

"This afternoon, Nike suddenly notified us that they plan to cancel all advertising cooperation with the Hearst Group in the second half of the year," Roger Halls carefully looked at William III's expression and continued to explain the reason: "Cersei Capital Of Black Rock Asset Management recently increased its stake in Nike to 5.6%, and received Nike’s board seats. Moreover, Nike is also in contact with the Eaglenet portal, intending to further expand Internet advertising. "

Roger Halls was saying that the sudden burst of William Hirst III swept the coffee cup on the desk to the floor with a clatter, while staring at Roger fiercely: "You can't give me a point Good news?"

During this time, it was not just the total ban on the Westeros system. Many other important advertisers of the Hearst Group have canceled their cooperation.

Not to mention whether this situation will continue to deteriorate, but from the current point of view, Hirst Group's revenue in 1994 may have a negative growth of more than 20%.Stopping a company's revenue growth actually means a decline. A series of corporate layoffs, insolvency, business contraction, and other serious domino-like serious negative effects brought about by negative growth of up to 20% are enough to make a company in just three or five years. Go bankrupt during the year.

The only thing William Hirst III is now happy is that Hirst Group is not a listed company, otherwise, Hirst Group's share price may fall by more than half during this time.

Even so, an article in the Wall Street Journal last week judged that the overall wealth of the Hirst family has shrunk by $1 billion due to a series of recent storms, and the total wealth of the Hirst family may be only 15 at this stage. Billions of dollars.

A Hearst Group spokesperson arrogantly refuted the "Wall Street Journal" article was in favor of the crowd, but William Hirst III, the bureau insider, understood that the "Wall Street Journal" judgment, even if it is slightly exaggerated, is not much.

The Hurst family's main asset is a series of paper media platforms such as its daily newspapers and magazines.In fact, only 30% of the income source of paper media comes from the sales of newspapers and magazines, and the other 70% is advertising.Because the Westeros system has ceased cooperation with more and more advertisers, the sharp decline in newspaper and magazine income will inevitably lead to a significant depreciation of its own value.

Roger Holles silently called the maid to clean up the coffee cup broken by William III, and looked at the boss who was still angry, but she couldn't help but have an absurd thought.

good news?

It does.

Last week, "Citizen Kane", who re-logged in the North American theaters with great fanfare, only obtained a box office of US$17.36 million with a screen size of 1,271, and more than US$13,000 of the museum averaged many new films at the end of April. The total box office in North America is expected to reach 60 million US dollars.

Therefore, it can be seen that the Hirst family is still'prestige' in the United States.

After the sudden outbreak, William Hirst III quickly calmed down. What he had to face was to face it. The most important thing now was how to get rid of the predicament in front of him.

Reconciliation obviously has no hope.

On a trip to Washington a few days ago, William III even asked the White House for help. The result was still in vain. William III even doubted whether Clinton would help make the call after he agreed. Know that after Clinton took office, the Hearst Group’s The media is also not polite to this politician who has unexpectedly reached the presidency of the President due to various encounters.

Clinton has fallen into the mire of Paula Jones's sexual assault case recently. Even if everyone understands that this is the moth that the Republican Party has created for this year's mid-term elections, such a hot news hotspot, Hirst Group's media have also followed suit.

All in all, since Mr. President took office for more than a year, the traditional paper media has not given him much recognition. From the travel door, the military gay controversy, the haircut scandal, etc. to the recent Paula Jones sexual assault case, the traditional media basically stood Against the president’s side.

Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine that the White House is unlikely to have a good impression of traditional paper media, and is more likely to be happy with the rise of Internet media. Although Igrid Portal has also expressed its neutral position, it has been more than a year. Since then, the fool can see the political inclination of this portal.

Moreover, in just a few years, it has accumulated hundreds of millions of users worldwide, and the influence of the Igrid portal has completely surpassed any single large newspaper.

The strength of the Westeros system has aroused strong vigilance in Washington. However, if this powerful media influence is targeted at an individual, the impact will definitely be devastating. As the head of an established media group No one knows this better than William Hirst III.

As a result, during the last trip to Washington, William Hirst III tried to contact some politicians to suppress the further expansion of the Westeros system, and received a lot of responses, but few politicians dared to really be the first bird.

As for the Hearst Group.

William III remembered that the beautiful female spokesperson of Westero in the live TV broadcast this morning suddenly spoke out against some countries in the UN General Assembly. Because of the recent Rwandan racist massacre, almost all public attention was Attracted to Africa.

The suppression of the Hirst Group has not been alleviated at all, but there are not too many people concerned about this matter. This is simply to let the Hirst Group lose blood and die in silence.

Correct.

The public’s attention needs to be re-attracted to the dispute between the Westeros system and the Hearst Group. Only when enough public attention is gained can the Hearst Group re-manipulate public opinion, thereby attracting other companies in the same industry and the federal government. The attention of the regulators intervened to prevent Simon Westero's misconduct.

William Hirst III thought of this and frowned for a moment, then looked up and asked Roger Halls: "What was the maid next to Westeros that we bought?"

Roger Halls said: "Doris Fitcher."

"It's her," William III nodded and asked, "Are we still in touch with her recently?"

Roger Halls shook his head.

Since Doris Fitcher encountered the Westeros family up to $12 million in breach of contract lawsuits, the other party has been completely abandoned. The Hearst family has not spent huge sums of money to sue others like Simon Westeros. As for the habit of the opponent, it is not within the scope of the Hearst family.

William Hirst III reorganized for a moment and said, "In this way, find her again and persuade her to deliberately create a suicide."

Roger Halls heard the words, paused and asked, "Sir, how do you say?"

William III looked at Roger and said: "A poor young girl was forced to commit suicide because of Simon Westero's malicious lawsuit. This can attract a lot of public attention and sympathy. We can also refocus the public attention from Africa's broken things attracted back."

Roger Halls fully understood the intention of William III, but did not immediately agree, still looking at his boss.

William III also understood Roger Halls’ mind, and he knew that his assistant understood his mind. After a brief confrontation between the two, he still said: “It’s better to use sleeping pills. You should stare in person, as late as possible. Take to the hospital."

Attempted suicide and real suicide have completely different public responses.

The former may only become a farce, and the latter can really cause a strong public response.

The boss opened his mouth, and Roger Halls finally nodded slightly: "I will arrange it as soon as possible."

In a villa apartment a few hundred meters away from the Hearst mansion, the two agents of the Westeros family intelligence team, who were in front of the surveillance screen, listened to the whole process of the conversation between William III and his assistant. The two just looked at each other. , One of them picked up the phone and dialed a series of numbers: "Boss, you may need to come over in person."

After a brief chat, Chris Wendeng hung up the phone, pulled out a cigarette and lit it, and continued to look at the monitor screen to his companion Terry Scars: "The thoughts of these big men are much darker than ours."

Terri Scars, who was of ordinary appearance and slightly thin, nodded casually and looked at the monitor screen with his companion, but his eyes flickered a bit.

Martin Dinham quickly arrived with another assistant.

After watching the video just in person, Martin Dinham dialed Simon's phone for the first time, briefly introduced the matter just now, and also scheduled an appointment for tomorrow's meeting.

Hanging up the phone, Martin Dinham took out the key to open the special monitoring main box with two layers of insurance. When entering the second layer of password, Chris Wenden and Terry Scals both turned around consciously and actively, and Dinham's assistant, Chris Lamont, did not evade.

The team responsible for monitoring often has access to a lot of sensitive information. Therefore, like the closely monitored banking system, the team has very strict operational procedures in order to avoid the secret agents who are exposed to certain special information.

It is one point that at least two agents are responsible for monitoring at the same time.

The most important one is that for the most direct audio and video evidence, only a responsible person like Martin Dinham can get started, and an assistant will also assist in the operation process.If the information is useless, it will be completely destroyed immediately afterwards. As for the useful information, the person in charge and the assistant will choose and save it together.

Although the agents directly responsible for monitoring are insiders, they cannot have any substantial evidence, so they can also minimize certain hidden dangers.

Take out the hard drive containing William III's conversation with his assistant, Martin Dinham personally replaced it with a new one, relocked the main chassis, and finally told Chris Wenden to share with them, and Dinham brought it back The assistant left in a hurry.

In the surveillance room, Chris Wenden and Terry Scals continued to stare conscientiously at the monitoring screens connecting the Hirst mansion. Until 12 o'clock, the shift agent arrived and the two persons were able to rest.

Surveillance in a bedroom of the villa, it was more than one o'clock in the morning, and Terry Scals, who was lying on the bed in kimono, still had no trouble.

The agent held a pocket recorder in his hand, wearing headphones, and the conversation between William III and his assistant was repeatedly played in the recorder.

The agents responsible for monitoring work in groups of two, each on duty for six hours. Therefore, even the agents on duty in front of the monitor screen are not completely insiders, which is also a deliberate precautionary measure.

This conversation in the hands of Terry Scals would be the most valuable record since he started on duty.

Terry Scars, who was also an intelligence agent of the Australian National Security Agency, was initially satisfied with the treatment given by his boss. However, as time passed, Terry Scars became more aware of his ongoing A lot of work, if a little operation, can definitely get him unexpectedly huge rewards.

For example this time.

Terry Scals can imagine that under the circumstances of the Westeros system, William III's execution of his own "plan" is likely to bring devastating results to the Hearst family.

To deliberately seduce a person to commit suicide, and then sit idly by and wait for the other person to die. This is actually murder.

Once the matter is exposed, not only will William III be in jail, such a scandal will certainly further destroy the entire Hearst Group.So, for a piece of information that can save the Hearst family from being destroyed, how much should I quote?

5 million dollars?

Of course not enough.

After all, the treatment that their boss gave them to these core agents, including annual salary, benefits, pension plans, and various rich treatments covering their agents, is already worth millions of dollars.

If it is only 5 million US dollars, it is not worth the loss.

At least 10 million US dollars!

Thinking of this, Terry Scars hesitated again.

Even if you can really get $10 million for this recording, you will have to spend your life next.

What kind of person is his boss, he is very clear.

Although there is also no way, but many things happened during this time, a few bloody door-killing tragedies, the tragic bombing of Woodfield Manor, everyone behind the scene knows well, not to mention, the young man is still short. In just one week, a private army was used to overthrow a country in Africa.

Such a cruel and bloody guy in his bones, if he knew his betrayal, could not let him go.

Even his family.

All core agents of the Westeros family intelligence team have a characteristic, and they have a perfect family behind them.

Terry Scals’ wife and two children live in Melbourne, and under the arrangement of the Westeros system, in addition to his generous salary, his family also enjoys the top medical and educational benefits. All the children are attending the top private schools in Australia.

It's just that because of long-term work abroad, although they don't have any special tasks, they even have up to six months to accompany their families every year. Terry Scars is still dissatisfied with his family marriage and personal status.

Especially after seeing the extravagant lives of those at the top of this social pyramid.

Unconsciously, Terry Scals outlined his future.

Counting the recordings in his hands, plus some other information, or a big deal as a double-sided spy for a while, at least 10 million US dollars, after getting it, he can completely change his face through a facelift, change a new identity, and then go to a Caribbean Tourists like islands with beautiful clouds and weaves start to enjoy their colorful retirement life.

Instead of now, like a rat who is blind in the middle of the night, he is busy for a big man everywhere.

As for the family, unless Simon Westero wants to chill all the agents working for him, he should not do anything to them.