When you ask someone to do something for you and they respond with "Sorry" or "I apologize," it is often a tactful refusal.
The Short, Fat Mr.'s eyebrows shot up, but soon returned to normal. He said softly, "Regardless of whether it succeeds, there's still a final payment."
Vanguard magazine had done extremely well in the Federation and wielded considerable influence.
Its success came from Lin Qi's "refusal to compromise." As far as Lin Qi was concerned, there might no longer be any "individual" in the entire Federation richer than him.
In that case, who cared whether it made money or not? It was just a magazine!
No matter how many advertisements a magazine carried, could it make more money than his other industries? Obviously not. So, in a sense, Vanguard was not primarily concerned with making money, but with expanding its influence.
It and Blackstone Television Station were Lin Qi's "loudspeakers" aimed at the public. They were Lin Qi's mouthpieces, not businesses responsible for turning a profit.
What capitalists feared most was having their mouths sealed by politicians. That was why nearly every consortium, tycoon, and Group Company in the Federation had its own mouthpiece.
That included Northern Industrial Group, which had a newspaper with a wide readership in the north called Steel Age, as well as a magazine with the same name.
Lin Qi needed his mouthpiece to be loud enough for more people to hear his voice, so he had to manage Vanguard's market well.
That left people with the impression that Vanguard was at the "forefront of the times" and "dared to speak the truth." After all, its owner was not short of money and had no profit targets. The media workers naturally knew what to do.
Compared with being slaves to money, some media workers