Malibu, Point Dume Estate.
The time is already Thursday, October 15th.
As soon as she entered the restaurant in the morning, Girl A handed over a copy of today's "Washington Post" and made a special mark on an article.
An official from the U.S. Department of Justice told the media yesterday afternoon that it is considering the possibility of launching an antitrust investigation into Igret's IE browser.
This article is highly targeted, given the Yigret Portal's recent bias toward Bill Clinton in its news coverage.
Janet had already read the report and was eating breakfast next to the man while saying: "The White House is really worried now."
After Simon finished reading the article, he put down the newspaper and said, "It's expected, but it's not a big problem."
Voting day for the presidential election is November 3, less than three weeks away. Once George Bush loses the election, the Department of Justice, one of the president's cabinets, will certainly have to be reorganized.
Although it is not just the Department of Justice that has antitrust investigation authority, by then, at least within the White House's sphere of influence, this matter is more likely to go away.
Simon clearly remembers Facebook’s misfortunes in the past few years after the 2016 election, including a series of privacy leaks, the Russia investigation, etc. In the final analysis, Facebook played a crucial role in the rise of a non-establishment faction in the 2016 election. effect.
As a result, the traditional establishment spent several years repeatedly tossing the company, with an obvious purpose: to 'take it easy' next time.
As a Facebook spokesperson said in my memory, Amazon’s excessive collection and utilization of user information is even more serious than Facebook’s. Considering the leaked ‘Prism Gate’ plan, the so-called privacy rights of American netizens are just a statement after all. That’s all.
Therefore, the Yigrit Portal has very obviously supported Clinton during this period, which is actually very risky.
However, the risk is much lower than that of Facebook later.
Facebook has promoted a "non-professional gamer" to a large extent, which is tantamount to offending all "professional gamers". Both parties in the United States are very dissatisfied with this company.
This time, Bill Clinton still belongs to the establishment.
Moreover, if the results of this presidential election are the same as in memory, then Ross Perot will be more likely to be in front. The two parties in the United States will also pay more attention to the impact that third party participation may have on the presidential election in the future. Impact.
Although the American media often claims to be fair and free, it actually has various factions.
Leftist media, rightist media, Republican newspapers, Democratic newspapers, blah blah blah.
The only difference between the Igret portal is that compared to traditional newspapers, the user scale of this online information platform is much larger. At this stage, the user scale is completely more than ten times that of the largest circulation newspaper in the United States.
Moreover, unlike the "hundred flowers blooming" after the rise of the Internet industry in 1995, the current World Wide Web platform is almost monopolized by the Igret portal.
The browser software belongs to Yigrit, the portal business belongs to Yigrit, the email service belongs to Yigrit, the topic forum section that has developed to tens of thousands now belongs to Yigrit, and the online blog business belongs to Yigrit. Gretel…
Although the number of Internet sites based on World Wide Web technology has exploded to more than 500,000 in the past six months, users using the World Wide Web platform cannot avoid the various network products of Igret. The search engine and website navigation provided by Yigret Portal determine the traffic popularity of many Internet sites.
It is indeed a monopoly.
But it is also a natural monopoly.
The Internet at this stage is not without other network formats, but the World Wide Web technology has just been launched and has shown a relatively mature state. From browser software to portals, from HTML to JS scripting language, from the perspective of all parties It is undoubtedly the most suitable for the future of the Internet.
Then, after more than two years of promotion, World Wide Web technology has become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Coupled with the rapid explosion of the Internet industry based on World Wide Web technology, as well as the absolute support of AOL and Cisco in services and hardware, even if we are aware of the strong advantages and potential benefits of Igret's monopoly on World Wide Web technology, it is not possible at this stage. It is possible that other companies will launch another set of network technology standards while completely bypassing World Wide Web-related technologies.
This is like the Bell Telephone Company of old.
The U.S. telecommunications industry had already sprouted at the end of the 19th century, but it was not until 1984 that AT-T, the industry giant that had monopolized the U.S. telecommunications industry for nearly half a century, was finally dismantled.
Simon is very clear that the scale of the Internet industry will far exceed the traditional telecommunications industry in the future. However, except for him, a reborn person with the advantage of prophet, it is obviously impossible for anyone else in this world to realize this.
As long as Clinton comes to power, throughout the 1990s, the United States' legal policies for the Internet industry will be very relaxed, and the Westeros system will have enough time to make its layout in the Internet field more entrenched.
Therefore, the Igret Portal’s public support for Bill Clinton this time is definitely risky, but it is also bound to benefit a lot.
In addition, Simon chose to do this because of other considerations.
The development of the Westeros system in recent years has been like a snowball. During this process, Simon has always tried to adopt a certain golden mean as an Easterner at heart to run his business empire, try to balance the interests of all parties, and operate the Japanese stock market. At that time, they finally chose to package their assets and sell them to the Japanese government to avoid certain conflicts. In the two acquisitions last year, they tried their best to win over all parties to share interests to avoid conflicts, and even transferred overseas funds back to the country to provide data for the US government. Billion dollars in taxes as a palliative bargaining chip.
However, this kind of golden mean cannot last forever.
True neutrality is impossible.
The reason why Switzerland was able to remain neutral during World War II was because the country provided both sides with a political and financial channel for relaxation, and even a retreat. Without these effects, both parties involved in the war would not have allowed the country to stay out. As for Switzerland's external propaganda that all citizens relied on force to maintain their neutral status, this is just a school belle.
Similarly, the Westeros system never considered true neutrality from the beginning.
Simon was an early supporter of the Democratic Party.
Although everyone is well aware of this support, the Westeros system has been half-covering it, as if leaving itself an 'escape route' that could be turned at any time. This is obviously not a good decision.
This public expression of support for Bill Clinton is a complete stand for the Westeros system.
As for the results.
The famous Koch family in the United States has been a major financial backer of the Republican Party for decades. However, the Koch Industrial Group has not been targeted and remains the most powerful private industrial group in the United States.
Bill Clinton is a man with very strong political skills. Although he experienced a series of scandals after being elected, he also ran a strong rectification network for the Clinton family. It can be said that Clinton’s election has basically determined the political landscape of the United States for the next twenty years.
Twenty years is enough for the Westeros system to be deeply ingrained.
Simon had already discussed these matters with Janet in private.
Although she knew that the news in the "Washington Post" was more threatening, after breakfast, Janet still said that she would communicate with Joseph Schlapp in New York in the morning and come up with a set of public relations strategies to deal with it. come out.
The two of them had already come up with some ideas during breakfast.
Completely ready-made.
Try to direct as much firepower as possible to the 'tall man' Ross Perot.
Anyway. ,
A lot of things will be settled in the next three weeks.
Simon rushed to the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles in the morning.
The first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show will be held at the Dorothy Chandler Theater at the Los Angeles Music Center.
Most of the Victoria's Secret shows in my memory were held in New York, and New York does have a bit more fashion than Los Angeles.
However, this time, in order to be closer, Simon did not go back and forth between the east and west coasts.
At the end of the day, the show was just a big branding promotion that lasted for several months.
Judging from the continuous exposure of the Victoria's Secret brand and the rising revenue of Victoria's Secret stores in recent months, the marketing effect has already been seen before the show is officially released.
Leslie Wexner also lamented more than once that with a budget of 10 million US dollars, in exchange for such a promotion effect, it was a huge profit.
The date of the show was finally determined to be November 7, the Saturday after the presidential election voting day, and the TV broadcast date was November 12, which happened to be before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Starting in September, tickets for this show have been sold in limited quantities, and the team has not been stingy in this matter, saying that all ticket sales will be used for charity.
Because the hype for this show was so high, even though the price of tickets sold to the public was as high as $1,000, which some people thought was crazy, the 500 limited-edition tickets were still sold out.
There are a total of 1,000 tickets, 500 of which will be sold, and the remaining 500 will be given away for free through various channels.
Therefore, Victoria's Secret's free ticket giving activities on its official website and official blog have also made Internet information related to this brand a hot spot for traffic.
Then, on one side, there were complaints that ticket prices were too high, and on the other side, there was scalping due to the limited supply of tickets.
During this period, many media have reported that Victoria’s Secret tickets on the market have been sold for more than $3,000.
Not only that, it is rumored that VIP tickets to attend the Victoria's Secret show after-party and have close contact with supermodels and superstars are priced at a very high price.
Seeing the growing influence of this fashion show, both director Michael Bay and the supermodels participating in the show are paying more and more attention to it. Although the salary for participating in the catwalk is not high, no one on the Victoria's Secret Angel team complained about the frequent fashion and rehearsals.
Over the past few months, not only the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show itself, but also any Victoria's Secret Angels who are about to participate in the catwalk show, their exposure in the media has increased significantly.
Everyone knows that as long as this show is successfully completed, many people's careers will enter another stage.
So much so, when Elite replaced one of its models who was selected as a Victoria's Secret Angel by Nadja Allman, it was rumored that the model named Natasha Henstridge almost collapsed. Elite founder and president John ·Casablanca personally came out to appease the other party and promised some other benefits to prevent the model from causing bigger troubles.
However, this matter was unearthed by newspapers and appeared in the media.
Moreover, in the eyes of some people, the inside story of the matter is crystal clear.
Nadja Allman, after all, is the "leg essence" that Westeros personally supports.
Of course, some people have put forward other different views.
If Westeros wants to support the opponent, it can be given an angel spot from the beginning, or even a spokesperson. It is not impossible. In the end, it was 'Waist Essence' who got the qualification of Victoria's Secret spokesperson, and 'Leg Essence' was not at all initially He was not selected for the catwalk team, so there was negative news that he had "fallen out of favor" in Westeros.
The specific inside story of the matter can only exist in the media's various fantasies.
After such small twists and turns, Nadja Allman's exposure has also increased significantly. Recently, whenever she appears in public, there will be a series of paparazzi following her to take photos. The girl also signed an acting contract with WMA, even though many people Obviously, it is unlikely that such a tall girl will develop in Hollywood, but it does not prevent the media from making another hype.
As the Victoria's Secret show approaches, most of the Victoria's Secret Angels have begun to stay in Los Angeles.
As a result, the City of Angels, which was not originally very fashionable, seemed to suddenly start to compete with others.
Some media have also begun to speculate whether the Westeros system will take the lead in organizing a Los Angeles Fashion Week or the like.
At this stage, the stage catwalk style of models is mainly soft and elegant, and the women's underwear in the early 1990s was also relatively conservative. In Simon's opinion, these are somewhat incompatible with his own aesthetic. Therefore, Simon’s little attention to Victoria’s Secret during this period was mainly focused on these two aspects.
After months of careful preparation, he also believes that this show will definitely bring some kind of subversive shock to the fashion industry.
As the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show approaches, Daenerys Entertainment has also begun large-scale marketing and promotion for a series of key films scheduled for the end of the year.
Daenerys Entertainment’s year-end schedule will roughly start on Halloween.
Nicole Kidman has been busy in the past two months promoting "The Ring," which will be released on October 30.
After several internal test screenings, the reputation of "The Ring" has been basically confirmed. Some viewers who participated in internal test screenings even compared "The Ring" to the original "The Exorcist."
Of course, Simon doesn't expect "The Ring" to catch up with "The Exorcist". As long as it can support the expected performance of this Halloween schedule, it will be enough.