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Business magnate couldn’t take more

The owner from the recently closed tobacco company was found dead in house with a gun.

Today in the morning was found dead William Eberhard inside his house with a gun in his hand and a bullet hole in his head. The founder and owner of “Alps Tobacco, Inc.” was recently left unemployed after some reports from the news broadcast made his company to be shut down. The news broadcast made a report, an incredibly rude news report where it accused the company to be throwing the toxic waste from the industry near a guarded area for the nature; these reports lead the company to a lot of legal problems and with the ecologists in many countries from the European Union and some not being part of that union as for example Switzerland and Norway. These problems resulted in a millionaire pay from the company to the many organisms for the ecology and as compensation t the different states involved in this issue.

William Eberhard was born in the 28^th of July of 1965, son of the manager of a paint company where he discovered his love for the business world. He studied in the Saint Gallen University the career of business management and economy. He graduated in this career in the year 1988 where he got his first job helping his father in the paint company. In the year 1993 he founded his own company of tobacco named “Eberhard & Henning Tobacco”, with his partner Karl Henning. After the death of Henning on 1994 he changed the name of the company to “Alps Tobacco, Inc.”, name it took until its shut down the past month. During the first years the company found problems with many ecologists which were complaining that the company was affecting the wildlife from the top of the Matterhorn, issue that was dismissed in a few weeks.

The family didn’t make many declarations but that they will take legal actions against the ecologists and the news broadcast for the result it reached. His son personally said: “My father was no monster as said by that news reports, he was a family man and a good father. He always cared about the one beside him no matter what ethnic he was or what economic level he was in.”

The police declared that: “The individual was found sitting on a couch with no life and a bullet hole in the side of his head, also with a gun type Colt 1911.45 in his hand, which suggests that he took away his own life because of the pressure he received from the ecologists after the news report from a few months ago. According to our forensic psychologist he entered in a very deep depression when his company was shut down as he, as declared by his own family to us, didn’t want to eat and was hours locked inside his personal studio, where we found the body. We believe it was a suicide, but in the case of the adverse situation we are gonna make everything we can to capture the killer."

His son also said: "My father helped us to survive in the life, all the earnings to maintain our families came from that company; cousins, uncles, aunts, etc were working in that company, including myself. But now, we got nothing left, the money we gained in that company is going away fast, and soon we will be with not enough money to live."

The city's municipality decided to commemorate the businessman with a funeral held in the town's principal plaza and let everyone interested in going and honour the fallen man to be free to do so, but with police guarding it in case any incident could happened.

The widow of mr. Eberhard declared her gratefulness telling us: "I feel so happy for the gestures and love they show to my dead husband and his memory, I'd like to ask the media and other similar organisms to stop accusing my husband of false actions and stop disturbing my family for respect to him." This declaration ignited the fires of fury in the ecologists whom answered: "We only do what is good for the nature and wildlife, what happened with that 'businessman' is what he deserved for doing such awful actions to the nature. We are happy that such a murderer and monster will never again disturb the peace and balance of the nature with his toxic industrial waste and the smokes of his fabric." This also woke up suspicions in the police departments, as said by the police general Wilhelm Steiner: "The declarations of the ecologists are very suspicious to us because as seen in the own industry and in the documentation of this industry, it doesn't produce toxic industrial waste neither smoke that could damage the biology. The industry was all natural and green friendly which is the issue that makes us doubt, the principal factory was located in the industrial district of München also producing a minimum  amount of smokes that were very low compared to the other companies in that sector, with also the difference that Alps Tobacco was the only one producing non lethal and eco friendly smoke."  

Rationale 

I chose this type of text to make more conscience in the people because it can describe a “real” situation, what will impact people for this issue and make them realise what the truth behind the media is. This task is related to the course section when we talked about media and, included in it, the biased media which was the media inclined to one specific side and giving only one point of view. The nature of this task is principally to show the people what can happened with the biased media and that it can be in some cases very dangerous as shown in the text: “(…) which suggests that he took away his own life because of the pressure he received from the ecologists after the news report from a few months ago.” This is an evidence of the effect the biased media produced in this example person, the effect could be as bad as making an individual to commit suicide or to make another individual to commit murder.

The audience intended for this news report is basically the general public, like the normal or average people. This people is more frequently unaware of the issues that corporations of media such as news broadcast networks can make us to do with their “mind games”.

News report: 870 words

Rationale: 217 words

Total: 1087 words