Today, America's media outlets were destined for a busy day.
Li Si's tweets had been spreading like wildfire since last night. Before six in the morning, countless people in the media had already been roused by their bosses and ordered to get their stories written.
Then, as soon as America's gossip-hungry public woke up, they were smacked in the face by a flood of news.
<Shocking: The true identity of New York's Lizard Monster is...>
<Heartless Corporation Oscorp: Forces a scientist to become a monster, then tries to make him disappear forever instead of treating his injuries>
<Shocking: Lee Stein denounces Oscorp on Twitter and openly declares war>
Whether the papers had learned from their experience fighting for attention in the past, or their headlines were simply lackluster because they'd been dragged out of bed so early, the style of every major newspaper and magazine's front-page headlines had changed today.
That didn't make the news any less effective. Those attention-grabbing headlines had only added fuel to the fire.
Oscorp Group was already facing a crisis of confidence because its chairman was now the inexperienced young Harry Osborn. These scandals were the match that set off the powder keg. Its stock price swung wildly, and in just a few hours, its market value had lost tens of billions.
And what astonished everyone was that Oscorp had done nothing in response. It was as though the company knew nothing about the matter, and had no intention of stepping forward to explain or clear things up.
As a result, public opinion was almost entirely one-sided. Online condemnation of Oscorp grew more and more intense, and the company's stock price plunged by nearly twenty percent.
Still, that was as far as it went. A scandal was only a scandal, after all. Neither the Lizard