Ronin
No one had any confidence in the Revolutionary Army, aside from the Revolutionary Army themselves.
That included those who sympathized with the Revolutionary Army.
And the Marines had not been sitting idle over these twelve days.
They intended to beat them at their own game. In just twelve days, they had set up Den Den Mushi broadcast channels in the Sabaody Archipelago, Water 7, and other major cities.
The Marines wanted to prove that they were no worse than the Revolutionary Army, and that the Revolutionary Army had merely exploited an opportunity.
With Marine bases all over the world, however, the Marines could easily establish local broadcast theaters dedicated to airing Marine orders and news—clearly, they had also discovered the advantages of Den Den Mushi broadcasts.
The clever ones among them had also noticed the betrayal of the World Economic News Paper. Thus, they no longer held any illusions about it. Although they could not deal with the newspapers for the moment, taking control of broadcasts in major cities posed no problem at all.
Leo had easily led the Marines astray—the value of broadcasts was never in replacing the World Economic News Paper.
It was in allowing people in major cities to quickly learn what was happening in the world.
But from another perspective, did letting people in major cities learn the news before those in small towns, villages, and out at sea not also mean that the Marines had abandoned those people?
Could Marine Den Den Mushi broadcasts possibly cover the cities of all those small nations throughout the Grand Line and the Four Seas?
Impossible. The Marines could not even give every Marine base a Den Den Mushi, let alone achieve such extensive coverage. The people in those remote places had practically been abandoned by the Marines.