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△ 312｜I was absent from my daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony
At a press conference on the epidemic in a certain place, a female community secretary emotionally told her true feelings about sticking to the “front line” of epidemic prevention and control: she missed her daughter’s 18th birthday. What a sad story this is, she probably missed her daughter’s most important birthday; what netizens regret is that this spokesperson can still tell a story that has nothing to do with everyone so emotionally; And I also feel sorry for this. It turns out that people have been completely “desensitized” to this sensational method after the three-year epidemic.
Later, someone pointed out that saying “daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony” is a “magic oil” since the epidemic, and related usages have appeared as early as 2020. I didn’t find the original text of the news that was pointed out, but it was “missed my daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony” through the search method locked in 2020. Indeed, all the news from Baidu’s top ranking news was related to the epidemic.
For example, Wang Jing, who worked in the fever clinic in Wuhan, “the missed birthday and the best coming-of-age ceremony” [1] ; the day when Xu Yiming, a member of the second batch of Wuxi medical team members who went to Wuhan and a respiratory doctor of Wuxi Second Hospital, set out for Wuhan, It is her daughter’s 18th birthday, and there may be no coming-of-age ceremony [2] ; it was the 18th birthday of the daughter of Que Yufang, an employee of a nursing home in Bengbu, Anhui, but in order to fight the epidemic, Que Yufang devoted herself to the front line of nursing and did not ask for leave from the leaders. Missed my daughter’s 18th birthday [3] …
Through observation, almost all of these news came from March to May 2020, which was also the period when the so-called epidemic was relatively “severe”. In addition, I searched for the time period in 2021, but I didn’t find any news releases that used “epidemic” and “daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony”. As for the reasons, it is not convenient to discuss in depth here. But everyone needs to know a basic principle— that is, the news content of the media itself has a certain degree of hotness. The “hot” here is the so-called popularity and “public opinion is effective” . For example, “missing the daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony” really touched many people at first, and it became a way of understanding the epidemic and touching China. There will be many – as for why there is no “son’s coming-of-age ceremony”, I will search for it.
If “I missed my son’s coming-of-age ceremony” as the subject of the search, and then check back the news in 2020, there is almost nothing related to the epidemic. “Maybe it’s because I’m afraid of touching the bottom line of patriarchal online thinking” – I’m arrogant to say it, you can just listen to it.
I don’t know if your area is holding a campus sports meeting, it will also require students to earn so-called “collective points” for the class by submitting manuscripts. Because of the nature of the “competition”, the phenomenon of invoking each other through manuscripts is also very obvious. But how can there be so much nonsense to write about every day’s sports meeting? Even if you are cheering for your classmates, you won’t be able to write more than a dozen articles in one go. Moreover, the broadcast group on the podium will have a “time delay” when it broadcasts the manuscript for the sports meeting. When they have finished processing the manuscript in their hand, the project they want to describe the 800-meter men’s individual competition is already over.
In view of the above situation, I also need to consider whether it can involve others. As the group leader of the “Temporary Submission Team for Sports Meetings”, I used another method to complete the target.
The first step is to disassemble the manuscript. The sports meeting that everyone submits to, is all that nonsense over and over again, and even the format is basically the same in the end. When the broadcast group selects content from so many submissions, even if they quickly glance at each manuscript, there is no way to immediately determine whether the manuscript is usable. If I assume that when the broadcast group selects the manuscript, it is based on whether the first sentence has been repeated before, as a criterion, even if they find that it is full of slobbering words in the middle, they will not be able to stop.
The second step is to create a template. If I assume that the broadcast group really determines the “validity” of the manuscript by reading the first sentence, then the manuscript team I am responsible for only needs to write the first paragraph beautifully, then the nonsense that follows only needs to be read from the template It can be arbitrarily called, and then arranged and combined. In this way, people with different abilities can be arranged in the group to perform their duties. Some people are responsible for writing a beautiful beginning, and then the next person in charge of the assembly line can arbitrarily extract and deform the content from the “Slobber Template” that has been sorted out in advance. Put it together into a complete submission.
The third step is to participate and make rules. As mentioned earlier, I just assumed that the broadcast group determined the “validity” of the manuscript by “only looking at the first sentence”. If they didn’t adopt such rules, our approach would not have succeeded either. So at this point, the rules need to be changed from the inside. There are not only my friends in the broadcast group, but also my classmates. While chatting with them, ask them how they determined which press release to read from so many manuscripts. They are immersed in the joy of “power”, and as long as I tout their hard work and the greatness of their positions, they will inevitably reveal the truth: there are too many press releases, either the announcer is partial to the content of his class, or a quick check The quality of the article, such as whether the writing is good or not. (Forgot to explain, the collective points earned by press releases are divided into two parts, one is the number of submissions, and the other is the number of broadcast multicasts)
During the chat, I began to encourage and suggest that they should just look at the first sentence to determine whether the article is a novel beginning, otherwise it will take a lot of time to read each article. Sure enough, this suggestion was eventually adopted by the entire broadcast group, as the press releases I was in charge of, the ones that used only the best openings, started to be used more and more.
You can understand this part as “title party”.
The fourth step is to predict the heat. Since the situation of “favoritism” was mentioned just now, it means that nepotism itself can also be used. Because the broadcast group will have a “time delay” when broadcasting the news, they will naturally not read the relevant news for the event that has ended, unless it is a very conclusive draft. So I’m only responsible for pre-judging the popularity, and according to the schedule of the competition, I will go to the next stage of the “advance on-demand” competition. I will write two competitions in advance and write the content of the next competition. The longer the race is, the more I like it, such as the 3000-meter long run, so that I have enough time to write a lot of news that predicts the popularity. There are no more than a few plots of long-distance running: if you fall, you must continue to get up and continue to get up and bleed until the end; your classmates accompany the runners who are not physically fit; cross the finish line and shed tears of victory; even if there is no ranking, it will definitely To persevere to the end… You just need to predict all these hot news in advance, and almost all of the manuscripts you submit in one go will be read.
Some people will have doubts, are there people who fall down, accompany the run, cry and persist to the end every time they run 3000 meters? certainly! “Performance” in competitive competitions (including exams) is another topic that deserves a good discussion – this is something for the future.
Well, let’s put “I was absent from my daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony” back into the above “formula”, I think you will find the commonality of this type of news – women, women who are endorsed, emotional revealing, family affection Or child relationship (filial piety culture).
Is such news true? Maybe it is or not, it is not difficult for people to shed tears for their own script (see “The Tragic Comedy to a Cookbook” ). And what purpose the news itself wants to achieve, I can’t pick too clearly here. But unfortunately, after 2 years, the news template of “I am absent from my daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony” is still used, and audience friends obviously don’t buy it–
“A lot of people who were absent were relatives’ funerals.”
“We’re waiting for their apology, and they’re waiting for our praise.”
“She may think that missing her daughter’s bar mitzvah is the worst thing, and the worst people or things go unnoticed.”
What you miss is your daughter’s birthday, and there are more people who miss the last time of their parents, the marriage of their daughter, and the life of a 3-year-old child.
[1] “The Missed Birthday and the Best Coming of Age” 2020-02-28 19:06 https://ift.tt/z6O87PB
[2] “[War Epidemic Diary] Thank you, daughter! This year’s birthday present is a bit special” 2020-03-05 16:52 https://ift.tt/HUwNGCM
[3] “An Unforgettable Coming of Age Ceremony” 2020-03-05 08:31 https://ift.tt/ZqHd7Oh
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