Chapter 1194: Chapter 409: Apologies Require Standing at Attention
Los Angeles, “Los Angeles Times” headquarters, inside Harry Chandler’s office.
Harry Chandler is on the phone with California Governor William Richardson.
William Richardson, a staunch Republican.
“Dear Chandler, your ‘Los Angeles Times’ report this time is a bit excessive. Regardless of any issues between you and Donnie Block, this matter should not be brought to light. You know this makes it very difficult for me!”
On the phone, William Richardson also felt quite helpless. Next year is the year of the gubernatorial election. Since competing successfully for Governor of California in 1923 from William Stephens, he had never encountered such a helpless situation.
Although California and New Jersey are thousands of miles apart, both states belong to Republican states, especially New Jersey, which has almost become the most staunch Republican state due to Donnie’s presence.
The entire Republican Party holds New Jersey in high regard.
Now there is mutual biting within them, which has made William Richardson receive questions from within the Republican Party.
Indeed, as Governor of California, William Richardson is certainly on Harry Chandler’s side, but the problem now is that this is no longer an internal California Republican issue.
From when the “Los Angeles Times” started reporting the scandal between Donnie Block and Jessica Dole, this has already become an issue within the Republican Party nationwide.
“Dear Governor, please believe me, I wasn’t aware of this matter beforehand!”
Compared to William Richardson’s helplessness, Harry Chandler felt more anger, but at this moment he could only suppress his anger and first deal with William Richardson.
William Richardson didn’t care whether Harry Chandler knew about it. He just needed the matter to be resolved quickly.
“Chandler, I just managed to deal with Cameron Block, who represented Donnie Block to file a serious protest to me. In this matter, I hope you can resolve it quickly, or else you’ll have more calls coming your way!”
“I know, I’ll personally call Donnie!” Harry Chandler replied while holding the phone.
“Alright!” William Richardson hung up the phone.
Harry Chandler put down the phone, his face stern as he looked at Kyle Palmer sitting opposite him, and asked, “Dear Palmer, can you tell me why you let that report appear in the ‘Los Angeles Times’? I’m very curious now, was your head run over by a train this morning?”
By the end, Harry Chandler’s tone had turned reprimanding.
Kyle Palmer looked embarrassed and explained, “Mr. Chandler, I actually already booked a train ticket to Atlantic City, intending to personally go to Atlantic City to apologize to Donnie Block!”
“So what you mean is, when you published this news, you already knew what consequences it would lead to?”
Harry Chandler really felt like Kyle Palmer had lost his mind, otherwise, how could he not know the current situation?
The reason “Atlantic City Post” can enter California is because California is a Republican state, and the reason they cannot develop here is also because it is a Republican state.
As long as they, the “Los Angeles Times”, stand firmly on the side of the Republican Party, considering the unity within the federal Republican Party, “Atlantic City Post” can only accept this result.
Therefore, while Harry Chandler remained alert to the development of “Atlantic City Post”, he wasn’t overly worried because he understood the current environment.
To put it bluntly, for the “Atlantic City Post” to develop in California, there are only two ways: one is to grind slowly in California, year after year; maybe ten years later, maybe fifteen years later, “Atlantic City Post” can become a powerful newspaper in California, and that’s only if they consistently have news that attracts California readers during that time.
Second, “Los Angeles Times” makes significant mismanagement errors, incapable of controlling California’s media industry anymore, and then the Republicans internally, to maintain their influence in California’s media, would allow “Atlantic City Post” to replace the “Los Angeles Times”.
Now, “Atlantic City Post” doesn’t need these two ways anymore. The “Los Angeles Times” self-destructed, directly attacking Donnie Block, the “Atlantic City Post”‘s boss, with a brutal outburst!
In such a situation, if “Atlantic City Post” comes flooding into the California market with masses of capital, even within the Republican Party, they might not be able to side with us, after all, they have no advantage in this matter!
In cases where both sides are equally matched, the rules become particularly important.
“I…” Faced with Harry Chandler’s questioning, Kyle Palmer didn’t know how to answer at this moment. That decision was made in a fit of rage, but he did consider the consequences. He just didn’t expect the consequences to be so severe.
“I’ll call Donnie now. We can only hope he doesn’t take this matter too seriously!”
Harry Chandler’s words did not mean he had let Kyle Palmer off the hook. It was just that Harry Chandler understood the most important thing now was to minimize the impact of the matter.