America 1982-Chapter 576 - 123: Bait_2

"What reason do you want me to find to shame them?" Shenfield was brought in as the president of VOX by Tommy’s angel investor, Benjamin Rosen, a German Jew who had previously founded the American Independent Television News Association. Through the association, he provided aggregated news reports to all the independent television stations in America, establishing VOX. The reason Wolfe Tucker agreed to step down without any complaints, aside from Tommy’s promise to appoint him as the head of the financial news network, was also due to this Jewish guy’s connections and capabilities.

Tommy said with a sly smile, "Just find any reason. For example, I can’t stand people from the Australian countryside. I don’t know why, but whenever I see Australians from the countryside, something below doesn’t feel right. I always feel like there’s a chance of being infected with syphilis."

After hanging up, Tommy dialed Susan’s number: "The lawsuit you helped set up with the mixed-race Black girl, should it be lost due to insufficient evidence in the first round?"

"Yes," Susan replied, "It was a thorough loss. To ensure the defeat, many witnesses and pieces of evidence were withheld on Delia’s advice."

Tommy said with satisfaction, "Good. Have the Black girl put on her best performance, because what comes next will be the highlight of her life. I want everyone to know that an American Black female star was raped by an executive of an Australian film company but could only helplessly lose the lawsuit. Delia and your support for her appeal will be fully covered by the media."

In the following days, VOX Television Network aired a documentary produced by its UK division, Thirteen Months Later. The documentary visited and filmed typical representatives of the six thousand union members who were laid off after the failed Wapping strikes in England in 1986, depicting their tragic experiences that year.

The gist of the documentary was that Murdoch wanted to build a new printing factory in Wapping, London, to introduce advanced computer typesetting and printing technology for The Sun and News of the World, aiming to enhance printing efficiency. However, once the new factory was completed, the traditional printers would be laid off on a large scale, roughly around six thousand people. Therefore, it was crucial to keep everything under wraps before the completion of the new factory to avoid the printing union catching wind and causing trouble, hindering the construction of the new factory.

So, Murdoch came up with a clever idea. He took the initiative to contact the printing union, claiming that the company was planning to launch a new newspaper called The London Post, which had very promising market prospects. For this purpose, a new printing factory would be built in Wapping, which would create many printing jobs upon completion.

The British printing union, perhaps due to its impressive history of over a hundred years or maybe because its leaders were bribed by Murdoch in advance, failed to realize that a capitalist would dare to blatantly deceive them. They took Murdoch at his word, and it wasn’t until the new factory was completed and started production that the workers realized they were not going to get the chance to work there. Instead, they were faced with the cruel truth: there was no The London Post that Murdoch had promised, they had been deceived.

The day after the Wapping printing factory was finished, The Sun moved its headquarters there. On the third day, Murdoch announced a mass layoff, and the printing union immediately started to strike and demonstrate. However, they didn’t understand that times had changed; it was now the era of computers. The workers’ naïve belief that their strike would prevent the newspapers from being sold on time was shattered. Simultaneously with the factory construction, Murdoch had already trained a group of newcomers who were not members of the printing union, teaching them how to use computers for layout and printing.

Moreover, when the striking workers desperately tried to block the trucks distributing newspapers with a human wall, Murdoch’s political ally in England, Thatcher, mobilized a large portion of London’s police and army to disperse the striking workers, even resulting in bloodshed. And all of this hardly made it into the papers in England, as Murdoch controlled the media channels that knew when to keep silent. Ultimately, the printing union could only humbly declare that the strike that lasted for thirteen months was a total failure, and six thousand printers were forced to accept the harsh reality of being laid off.

If the previous commentary on the major television networks and newspapers about Murdoch’s communist beliefs during his university years were made in a teasing tone, then after the documentary produced by VOX Television Network at great expense in England aired, the news commentary immediately became serious. This was a matter so serious it made people uncontrollably ponder: If Murdoch, this Australian, could deceive the British union, then why couldn’t he deceive the American union?

What’s more terrifying is that the documentary told viewers with real data that during the thirteen months of the Wapping strikes, the coverage of the strikes in British newspapers was almost negligible, and the BBC news, under the instruction of some bigwigs, likely reduced its reportage. Moreover, the video material from the strike scene was miserably scarce. Obviously, this was Murdoch’s influence; he controlled the British media and knew how to teach the media when to keep their mouths shut. So, if this Australian were allowed to grow and expand in the United States, wouldn’t he teach the American media to keep silent as well? 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

A series of reports from VOX News made even the most sluggish people realize that Tommy was picking a fight with Murdoch. However, just when everyone thought Tommy would release even more explosive information, the style suddenly changed, and BT Television began broadcasting news about Hollywood Black actress Tricia O’Neil filing a lawsuit against an executive of Fox Film Corporation for sexual assault. She ultimately lost the case due to insufficient evidence.