Chapter 278: Run Fast (14)
Chapter 277: Run Fast
"Welcome aboard!" Leo spread his arms and smiled at Morgans, the News King.
He was already a political animal.
In the past, he would have smiled and told Morgans: "The greatest pleasure of my life is saying no to people who think too highly of themselves!"
But now, he was grown, had a family, and was the leader of an entire team. He was a political animal who had to compete on the same stage as the World Government.
He had to possess the awareness of a political animal.
Make more friends and fewer enemies.
Whether he was weak or strong, this was a creed he could never forget.
The King of News's power was already extremely formidable on these seas.
Leo agreed with Morgans, the News King. On these seas, the power to speak was power itself. The World Government possessed that power, so it could twist right and wrong, white and black, even whitewashing the massacre of Ohara into a massacre supposedly carried out to protect the people.
They could easily whitewash the Amber Lead Syndrome as something the Kingdom of Flevance had brought upon itself, never mentioning who used the most platinum-lead products extracted from there.
By possessing the power to speak, they possessed the ability to reverse right and wrong.
That ability was terrifying. It could overturn people's sense of right and wrong, turn black into white. It was truly dreadful.
Used well, it was an excellent way to conceal and redirect internal conflicts. Used for personal gain, it became the authority to effortlessly erase bad publicity and whitewash villains into good people, making a fortune with ease. But if it was used poorly, then the problems would basically become impossible to hide.
The World Government could