My Empire of Clones
Chapter 72

The Importance of Controlling Public Opinion

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Now that they had made a technological breakthrough, it was time to bring together resources from all over the world!

With the internet now so widespread, people had shifted from getting their news through television and newspapers to getting it online.

It was no exaggeration to say that even some sixty-year-old seniors read the news online!

The newspaper industry, now in decline, was gradually being forgotten. People no longer needed to pay for subscriptions just to receive a limited amount of information.

The same was true of magazines. Through the internet, people could search for all kinds of information they wanted to learn about.

But along with the rise of new media, more and more fragmented information was flooding people's minds!

Spending so much time staring at their phones and computer screens was damaging people's eyesight! Rates of nearsightedness were rising!

Some of the information online was already years old, yet because nobody had updated it, people were no longer seeing the latest knowledge.

For example, many answers on Baidu Knows were years old! They were no longer relevant!

The new media empire Tang Shizhe had planned would turn all of this upside down!

A few months later, Titan Media, Sman Media, and Victor Media began consolidating their newspapers and magazines.

By merging newspapers that targeted the same audience, they could create large-scale news organizations with reporters all over the world and enormous archives.

For example, they could merge newspapers covering the world's various economic sectors and integrate them, sharing all kinds of resources, from informants to local connections!

Tabloids specializing in gossip could also be consolidated into a worldwide super-"Empire," with paparazzi everywhere. Whenever a celebrity appeared anywhere in the world, there would be Empire paparazzi on the scene!

The barriers that had kept local newspapers confined to their

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