Bab 884: Chapter 884: Media Outbreak
It was the early morning of September 22nd, Iranian time.
People in the Iranian capital Tehran had already fallen asleep, but in one corner of the city, the Jiuding News Agency's Tehran station was still on duty.
White reporter Tom yawned, rubbed his eyes, forced himself to wake up, and muttered, 'I don't know what the company is thinking, making us keep communications open and arrange shifts around the clock. Although the situation between Iran and Iraq is a bit tense, it's obviously not close to war.'
'Forget it, I'd better make a cup of coffee first, otherwise I really won't be able to hold out tonight.'
Mumbling to himself, white reporter Tom walked towards the closet.
In a moment, a cup of steaming hot coffee was ready.
He just picked up the coffee and was about to walk towards the sofa, but suddenly his footsteps came to a halt. Frowning, he looked out the window and muttered, 'That sound seems to be the sound of low-flying aircraft, and there are quite a few of them. Where are all these planes at this late hour?'
Subconsciously, a bad feeling rose in his heart.
But before he could even get to the window, he heard a series of loud bombing sounds.
'Shit, it's missiles, the planes are bombing!'
Tom, who was a little sleepy, suddenly woke up. He couldn't help but swear, and at the same time, he threw the coffee in his hand directly out, and then quickly rushed to the corner of the house to find cover and hide his head.
'Boom!'
'Boom boom boom...'
The continuous roars woke up the whole city. The originally dark Tehran was quickly lit up, and screams and cries of alarm came one after another.
The other colleagues of Tom, who are stationed at the Jiuding News Agency, also woke up one after the other. After making a judgment, they didn't have time to get dressed and they all looked for places to hide.
After the panic, Tom discovered that the house had not collapsed and he was still safe. Gradually calming down, he listened carefully and realised that the bombing was still going on, but it didn't seem to be close by.
In the spirit of a journalist, Tom plucked up his courage, got up, ran to the table, grabbed his camera, rushed out the door, looked up at the distant sky, and could see the red fire in the northern sky from time to time.
He immediately pressed the shutter and captured a few high-quality photos.
Then he carefully analysed and observed them.
'Judging by the distance, that's the suburbs, not a residential area.'
'Wait, there seems to be... the Tehran airbase!'
'It must be Iraq bombing the Iranian airbase!'
'Oh no!'
'There are planes coming this way, are they going to bomb the city?'
Amidst Tom's exclamations of alarm, he was shocked to see the flames lighting up the eastern part of Tehran. He remembered very clearly that this was the industrial area and the power supply area, the power source of Tehran.
He immediately raised his camera again and kept pressing the shutter.
'Tom, Tom, hide quickly, the planes have started bombing the city, damn it, it's dangerous!'
Just as the white journalist Tom kept shooting, his colleague rushed out shirtless, yelling and pulling him back into the house to find suitable shelter and hide.
As soon as they entered the house, the lights in the house flashed once, and instantly the whole room was in darkness.
It was clear that the power station had been destroyed, plunging the city back into darkness. The only light was the occasional flash of explosions and fires caused by the explosions.
The bombing continued for half an hour before Tom and the others heard the sound of the aircraft gradually receding.
After waiting for a few minutes to make sure that the bombing had really stopped, they immediately came out of their hiding places. Some of them lit a weak fire with a lighter and started looking for spare candles.
After lighting the candles, everyone let out a sigh of relief when they confirmed that everyone was safe and sound.
'Thank goodness the plane didn't bomb our house!'
'The power is out now, so let's hurry up and start the backup generator. I took some photos, and I need to send them back to the company right away,'
the white reporter Tom shouted. Everyone was busy again, and after tossing and turning for ten minutes, the power came back on in the room. Everyone took up their respective duties, trying to get the news back to the company as soon as possible.
At this moment, the advantages of the Jiuding News Agency came to the fore.
Because the Jiuding News Agency has three communication satellites that can cover the whole world, even if there is a power outage in Tehran and the city's communication signals are cut off, it will not affect their faxing of information in the least.
Tehran, Iran is eight and a half hours ahead of New York, USA. Although it is early morning in Tehran, it is only around 5 pm in New York.
When the news of the air strike in Tehran, Iran, reached New York, the global secondary news processing centre of the Jiuding News Agency in New York attached great importance to it and immediately processed the news, reporting it up the hierarchy.
At 5:15 pm, the news was delivered to the CNN news anchor.
After finishing a local news story, the background immediately switched to a photo taken by Tom, and the beautiful anchorwoman at the desk reported with a serious face: 'Now we interrupt this programme to bring you important international news. Just an hour ago, at 28 minutes past midnight Tehran time, Tehran was attacked by an unidentified aircraft group...Next, our station's news and USA Today newspaper will be the first to provide you with the latest information, so stay tuned!'
Viewers who were watching the news were shocked. One after the other, many viewers immediately switched to the CNN channel, and some of the viewers who did not have CNN news channels realised its effectiveness and were prepared to pay for the signal.
Other major news media such as ABC and CBS also dispatched reporters to the airport as soon as they received the news from CNN, preparing to go to the Middle East and get news from the battlefield.
CNN got the first bite of the news, and the newspaper USA Today would also grab it before them. Naturally, they had to race against time to get the latest news and try to turn the tide.
But to the dismay of some media groups, before they had even left the United States, some evening newspapers began reporting more detailed news, and for a time, sales of these evening newspapers skyrocketed.
These evening newspapers were exactly the ones that Jiuding Newspaper Company had acquired in the United States.
In addition, the USA Today newspaper, which had been mentioned by CNN, also reached the ears of interested people through word of mouth, and these people immediately called the USA Today newspaper office to prepare to place an order.
Not only the United States.
The United Kingdom, France, Germany, island countries, Hong Kong, and other places, as long as Jiuding Newspaper Company had newspapers, they were all adding news as much as possible.
The news of the air strike on Tehran spread to the world at breakneck speed.
By the time the US entered the night, dawn had broken in the Middle East. The correspondents of the Jiuding News Agency in Iraq and Iran spread out, obtaining a steady stream of high-quality news, which was transmitted to the Hong Kong news processing centre and the New York news processing sub-centre as soon as possible.
As the sun rose, New York welcomed a new day.
Financial industry employees got up early and took out the USA Today newspaper from their mailboxes.
More people went straight to the street and bought USA Today newspapers from newsstands.
Today's USA, which is already famous for being the first national newspaper, saw a sharp rise in sales this morning. Even though Yan Wenhan was prepared, he had to place reprinting orders again and again.
Yan Wenhan estimated that the sales of Today's USA, which originally sold more than 300,000 copies nationwide, would likely break one million today, thanks to the first-hand and detailed exclusive news. After all, this newspaper directly covers the entire United States.
Unlike other flagship newspapers of the American branch, such as the New York Daily News, Houston Chronicle, and Washington Star, which all have a strong local focus, even if they also analyse and report from different perspectives today, their sales increases will definitely not be as terrifying as those of USA Today.
An hour or two passed quickly, and the New York Mercantile Exchange officially opened for trading.
The Wall Street crocodiles, who had been gearing up for a long time, quickly entered the market with surging capital, with a very clear goal in mind: the oil futures contract.
Buy!
Buy strongly!
Go long!
Everyone knows that the war in the Middle East is imminent with the fall of Iraq, that there will be a shortage of oil, that the global oil supply will be affected, and that the price of oil futures is bound to skyrocket!
The sharp rise in the price of oil futures further shook the financial markets.
Financial institutions and investors alike were doing everything they could to find the latest relevant information and try to make the most accurate analysis and judgment.
After much searching, they all ended up focusing on CNN and USA Today, among other newspapers. Although other news media also reported the news, they were just following suit and appeared worthless in the face of CNN and USA Today.
The reporters of these news media are still transiting in Europe, and even if they really arrive in Iran, it will take time to get started, and there is still waiting to be done!
At 2:00 a.m. on September 23rd, Iranian time, Iraq mobilised 5 divisions and 2 brigades, with more than 1,200 tanks, and launched an attack on Iran from the north, centre and south.
The reporter from the Jiuding News Agency, who had been waiting at the border for a long time, used his camera to capture the spectacular scene of the massive army marching in from afar, and quickly transmitted it back to the company via a communications satellite.
A steady stream of high-quality news was sent around the world via the Jiuding News Agency, and sales of all major media outlets under the Jiuding consortium soared, leaving an excellent impression on the minds of their customers.
Before the profits from oil futures could be reaped, the Iran–Iraq War brought Xia Yu a wave of profits.
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