Chapter 502: An article

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"When the world has opened its arms, some people still choose to stand still.
Why is rugby only the number one sport in North America? "
This is a special report from the "Los Angeles Times", written by intern reporter Jay Fox, but it was published in the headlines of the sports page, and occupied a position below the front page, becoming the most cited A focal point for people's attention instantly attracted all eyes.
In the report, Jay mentioned the discord of the San Francisco 49ers against the Arizona Cardinals in the fourteenth week of the regular season. The home fans launched a personal attack on the visiting team, and even further attacked the opposing quarterback. Lu Ke's Asian identity not only appeared in the stands with a large number of discriminatory sentences with distinctive colors, but also many audiences imitated the image of monkeys to mock their opponents.
In this regard, Jay said that this is an absolutely intolerable phenomenon.
"It is now the 21st century. The world has become a global village. Airplanes connect all corners of the earth. The network connects six billion people face to face.
Learning to accept new things, learning to embrace different cultures, and learning to broaden your horizons is an inevitable trend forward, not only racial discrimination, but discrimination against ethnic minorities and vulnerable groups is far behind the times. "
In the article, Jay did not elaborate the problem from the perspective of society and politics / governance, but returned to competitive sports itself.
"Rugby, as a splendid sports event, has encountered many difficulties in promotion. Of course, there are multiple factors such as venue, equipment and technology.
But it is undeniable that this sport is always entertaining itself, always refusing to integrate into other groups, and even refusing to accept different rugby games such as Britain, Australia, Canada, etc., and firmly confine its footsteps in the continental United States. This is definitely one of the important reasons that cannot be ignored. "
Through the article, Jay elaborated an interesting point.
When major professional leagues such as football, basketball, baseball, and even ice hockey have enthusiastically opened their arms, Asian players have proved themselves. On these fields, they still have their own talents and advantages. The ability of the game to go, the so-called racial shackles, is far less serious than people think, they can also have a place.
Rugby is still standing still and pretending to be the same, refusing to keep pace with the times, and proudly thinks that this is the world's first sport. After the chairman of the alliance, Roger Goodell, assumed the London Bowl, the Mexican Bowl and the Chinese Bowl, he encountered many doubts and rebuttals from within the alliance.
But the objective facts show that worldwide, football and basketball have far more market shares than rugby; although the annual Super Bowl has become a global prosperity, it is more because of the performance of the midfield show. Known as the "American Spring Festival Evening", not because the Super Bowl represents the ultimate matchup between the two football league champions.
"On April 15, 1947, Jackie-Robinson wore the No. 42 jersey and started as a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, not only became Major League Baseball history The first black player to appear on the scene has also become the first black player to debut in the four major sports leagues in the United States.
After that, the wheel of history has already rolled forward.
Now, half a century has passed. Different races, different classes, and even different genders have proved their worth on the court; now, the NBA has become the world of black people, MLB and NHL are the areas dominated by white people, and beyond this, Latinos and Ethnic minorities such as Asians have also become the backbone of these two arenas.
And the NFL?
According to official statistics, the NFL is the most balanced among the four major sports leagues in the United States. Blacks and whites are almost one to one, and the addition of Latinos, Europeans, Native Americans and Native Hawaiians has further increased It constitutes a rich and diverse ethnic integration.
But on this field, if mixed-race players are not counted, there are only two Asian players: one Wang Kai and one Lu Ke.
Just as all the leagues have opened their arms and accepted the changes from the world; just as the NFL has become the most successful alliance in the North American continent, racial integration ... Nowadays, extreme and serious racial discrimination reappears on the court, which is not only Just standing still, it is a significant step back.
This also spawned a series of questions: Is the NFL really the most successful league in racial integration? Is the NFL really the first sport in the United States? Does the NFL really keep up with the times? Also, does the NFL really want to step out of the North American continent and into the world?
Furthermore, does so-called discrimination only exist among fans? In the rookie training camp, Lu Ke, who performed well, became a lost rookie, and he didn't even have a position for the entire seven-round draft. Have NFL coaches and team managers really broken the racial prejudice and shackles? "
Like Lu Ke, Jay did not limit the entire horizon to the fans of the Arizona Cardinals, but stood at a higher angle and level, for the rights of every citizen, for the changes of the entire era, for the professional league The current situation of China has been analyzed and elaborated, and the real political / government demands have been expressed.
In other words, this is not the entanglement of personal grievances, getting rid of the conflicts and controversies between players, but also getting rid of the confrontation and contradiction between individual players and fans, focusing more on a higher, larger and broader pattern , Forcing the other 31 teams and forcing the league to look longer-term—
Do not choose to sacrifice the interests of a player Lu Ke because of the protest and mediation of a team of Arizona Cardinals.
"Why is rugby only expensive in North America?
Obviously not because this sport is not exciting enough. "
At the end of the article, Jay did not give the answer, or even did not discuss too much, but used a semi-open guide to express, leaving the thinking space to the readers, and also to those senior personnel.
As the most influential newspaper on the West Coast of the United States, the "Los Angeles Times" is almost alone, and it is also the entire North America. A few newspapers can compete with the "New York Times", "Wall Street Journal" and "Washington Post". One, each of their reports can be described as highly anticipated, not to mention such a sharp special report?
After this issue of the newspaper was published, it fell into an uproar throughout North America!
First of all, the "Los Angeles Times" uploaded this special report simultaneously on its official website. In just twelve hours, countless tourists poured in madly, and the number of page views per hour was from one hundred thousand breaths. It jumped to 300,000; and the hit rate of this special report broke through 10 million in one go!
Not only that, the volume of special reports has also been transmitted more than 6,600 times, and it has spread throughout the network in almost half a day, at least in North America, and has become a well-deserved number one hot topic.
Secondly, the social network is full of this special report. Some opponents believe that the "Los Angeles Times" is a big issue and distorts the facts. It puts a trivial matter on the line, magnifies the problem infinitely, and has sinister intentions; and support In fact, they strongly condemned the cardinals ’home fans’ bad behavior and hoped that such absurd and ugly discrimination would be eliminated.
In Twitter, only the repost amount of peer media broke through a thousand times within twelve hours, which also makes media other than sports media in entertainment, social, political / government and many other fields. They began to focus on this incident.
The qualities of the Internet age and fast food culture are vividly reflected at this moment, not to mention Jay, even the Los Angeles Times did not anticipate it.
Obviously, after the game, the city of San Francisco gathered all their sights together and expressed their dissatisfaction in a way that supported the Los Angeles Times.
According to official data from Facebook and Twitter, after the "Los Angeles Times" published a report on the Internet, in the first three hours, the San Francisco user activity broke the table, accounting for almost 70% of the overall data. Liaoyuan's momentum spread quickly, and promoted the subsequent tide of public opinion.
The San Francisco 49ers fans stood side by side behind their starting quarterback and expressed their position unwaveringly. This also proves once again that the development of major cities on the coastline is far ahead of inland cities; at the same time, San Francisco, as a city with great cultural integration and one of the most densely populated cities of Chinese descent, has become Lu Ke Enter the most perfect stage of the league.
Once again, after the official publication of the "Los Angeles Times" newspapers, within half a day, all 1.8 million newspapers were sold out, and the supply was in short supply.
Under the tide of the Internet era, all paper media are facing the dilemma of severe sales decline. Now the highest-selling newspaper in North America is the "Wall Street Journal", and sales are only maintained at 2 million to 2.3 million copies. Between; and "USA Today", "Los Angeles Times", "New York Times" sales are almost the same, generally between 1.5 million to 1.8 million.
The sales volume of the entire paper media has shown a downward trend for five consecutive years.
But today, the "Los Angeles Times" actually appeared to be completely sold. This is definitely the first time that the newspaper is so dumbfounded that it can only start to reprint in a panic.
why?
Why can a Chinese media quarterback encounter discriminatory treatment of the special media cause such a turmoil?
It can be said that it is unexpected but reasonable.
At the beginning of the season, Lu Ke was surrounded by controversy from the first day of landing in the league, and he broke the controversy many times, countered the current, conquered the fans with one victory after another, and proved with excellent performance again and again For himself, "Lu Ke-Skywalker" has become the hottest topic in the NFL this season, even surpassing the state of Aron Rogers, leading the league's hot list.
Now, the controversy is coming again. After the focal point and the focal point collide, it is not only a multiplied energy, but a burst of ten times or even a hundred times energy, which has attracted everyone's attention!