Every single mainstream media outlet was dominated by reports claiming that Ye Chen wanted to control the media landscape of China, aiming to ensure that the only voice on the Chinese internet would be Tenglong News. They even repeatedly harped on his family background, deliberately trying to frame Ye Chen as an extension of the Chinese authorities. In their narrative, Tenglong News ruling the Chinese media was equivalent to the Chinese government seizing absolute control over the press. In other words, what Chinese citizens could see, hear, or know would depend entirely on what the authorities wanted them to see, hear, or know. To top it all off, they slapped China with accusations of the death of press freedom, splashing it across headlines worldwide.
As for the actual content reported by Tenglong News—targeting those unscrupulous media outlets that wreaked havoc on the country and its people—those same foreign outlets chose to turn a blind eye, avoiding the subject altogether.
Anticipating this, Tenglong News had already prepared its counteroffensive, turning its heavy artillery toward the foreign media on overseas networks and unleashing another wave of fiercely aggressive salvos.
Chapter 954