174 Do Your Best and Leave the Rest to Heaven

“These bastards... So it wasn’t NoName you wanted to bury, but our QBS for running the report.”

A media outlet that broke the unwritten rules paid dearly.

The public? No—the ones attacking us were other media outlets on our side.

The days when the public voiced its opinions first were over.

The media outlets had created an environment where the public could throw stones while recalling the past. Had everyone forgotten how many students had been sacrificed to the media’s forced star-making machine?

About thirty years ago, countless boys and girls had been introduced on the news or variety shows as ‘the next Ham Chorong’ or ‘the return of Ham Chorong.’

But the promising ones (or their parents) couldn’t withstand the mounting pressure and kept making increasingly reckless claims.

That they had solved a world-famous problem, uncovered the secrets of the magical world, developed a new drug that could cure incurable diseases, and so on.

Looking back now, there was nothing more absurd, but back then, the public had no choice but to believe them at face value.

The media’s job had been to package lies as truth, and listening to interviews with those bright-eyed children naturally inspired trust...