Chapter 350 Bribing Journalists
The hospital is unlikely to readily honor the compensation claims made by victims including Sun Aimin, but is already prepared to go to court.
After all, it was quite easy for their hospital to fight against those powerless families. They had a professional team of lawyers who could negotiate with the victims separately and strive for reconciliation, thus disintegrating these people from within.
By then, even if some individuals are hard nuts to crack, without the support of other victim families, can they still make any waves?
At that time, this mass incident can be characterized as an individual incident and directed towards "work errors."
Even if the people involved in the case eventually have to go to jail, it will be able to minimize the impact of public opinion on the hospital.
However, the most important thing now is to deal with those reporters first to prevent them from reporting these things in advance and putting the hospital in a passive position.
After Sun Aimin and his team left with the reporters, Yue Changhua immediately reported the incident to the dean. Under the dean's instruction, Yue Changhua led his team to find the hotel where the reporters were staying that day.
A group of five reporters, three men and two women, began to organize information and prepare to write press releases after returning from the hospital.
They brought a laptop computer and backed up all the information they had obtained today on the computer, and also sent a copy to their colleagues who stayed behind in the unit, just in case.
After all, this is someone else's territory. If the hospital wants to suppress the matter, there is no guarantee that they will not forcibly destroy the evidence.
As they expected, they returned to the hotel in the afternoon and the hospital sent someone in the evening.
Yue Changhua found out the hotel where the reporter was staying and came with "sincerity".
He first knocked on the door of the room where the three male reporters were staying. The reporters saw through the peephole that there were three people standing outside the door. The first one was the director of the dispute office who was negotiating with the victims today.
The two people behind him also appeared at the scene today, and they seemed to be staff members of the hospital dispute office as well.
The reporter opened the door a crack, poked his head in and asked, "Director Yue, what are you doing?"
Yue Changhua smiled and said, "Reporter, you are all smart people, so you should know why I came here today. Can we talk for a moment?"
The reporter looked back at the other two colleagues, and when he saw them nod, he opened the door, let Yue Changhua and his two followers in, and then closed the door casually.
The three reporters were all on high alert. Yue Changhua spoke first: "Everyone, we are here to solve the problem today. Don't be nervous. Can we sit down and talk slowly?"
There happened to be several stools stacked together in the room. Jiang Ming spread out the stools and motioned for them to sit down and talk. Jiang Ming and his two colleagues, Zhao Liang and Su Qingfeng, sat on their respective single beds.
Yue Changhua said: "You should all be very clear about what happened in the hospital today. Our hospital is indeed responsible for the poor supervision of what happened to those families.
However, they did not come to the hospital first. Instead, they organized themselves and came directly to you. To be honest, this approach is somewhat extreme.
Our hospital is rated as an advanced tertiary hospital every year. If the hospital's reputation is ruined because of this matter, it will not benefit them at all. Why bother? Don't you think so? "
Jiang Mingying said: "Director Yue, you can't say that. As a victim, they have the right to demand compensation and the right to make the truth of the matter public.
If the hospital only wants to cover up the incident and protect its reputation, who will protect the interests of the victims? If the crimes of the participants are not exposed, the people will know nothing about it and have no vigilance. Will others follow suit and make a fortune at the expense of human lives? "
Yue Changhua scoffed at Jiang Ming's statement: "In fact, they made a big fuss just to get more compensation. Why don't you sit down and talk to us about the compensation issue?"
Their children have been found now, so the loss is not that big. If they want to claim compensation, we will give it to them. As long as they agree not to go to the hospital to make trouble, we will definitely give them a satisfactory amount.
But we are not here today to discuss the compensation issue for those families. We want to discuss with you journalists whether you can refrain from publishing what you have filmed and seen today.
Those families came to the hospital for the first time today, and they were probably too excited, so they said something so extreme. There is actually still time to deal with this matter. If you just publish the news without caring about the consequences, both of us will be in a passive position.
Can we wait until we have a thorough discussion with them? Don't worry, we will not let your work go in vain!"
As he spoke, he opened a black backpack he was carrying and took out a few red envelopes from it: "I remember you have two female colleagues, right? Can you call them over as well?
This is a small token of our hospital's appreciation, as compensation for your hard work today. We only have one request, that you delete the content you filmed today!"
The three reporters looked at each other and rejected Yue Changhua's bribe.
Yue Changhua smiled and said, "This is just a small token of our appreciation. You don't have to feel any psychological burden. This is our territory, so we are just showing our hospitality as hosts!"
Yue Changhua's words seemed to be a double entendre to the reporters. On the surface, it seemed like he was taking care of them, but in fact, it was an implicit threat, telling them that if they dared to disobey, they should not blame them, the local tyrants, for being rude.
Seeing that the other party was still unmoved, Yue Changhua slowly faded his smile and said, "Are you dissatisfied with my low position and don't give me face? How about we ask our dean to come and talk to you personally?"
Jiang Ming said with a serious face: "We are just working normally. We don't need anyone from your hospital to come and talk. We know how to carry out our work. If outsiders interfere, it will only make things more chaotic!"
Yue Changhua was anxious and angry when he saw that the other party was not willing to give in. If he could not complete the bribery task assigned by the dean today, he didn't know what trouble these people would cause.
He could only raise the stakes and took out a few thick brown paper envelopes from his bag, secretly cursing these young reporters for pretending to be noble on the surface but actually being too greedy. The red envelopes they took out the first time were too small, so they must not have liked them.
As a result, those people remained unmoved when they saw the thick envelope.