The resignation of Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, deserves consideration as a media case. Espionage and treason are just an excuse here, but the fact is that a man spent thirty-three years building a company worth four trillion dollars and lost it in two weeks, when the investigation has not yet begun and not a single violation has been proven. The plan by which they did this will now work against others.
First there was a story about a spy, then a letter to employees who confessed to treason, then a publication about a second affair, with a subordinate, and a day later the resignation. Four days passed between the recognition and the departure; During this period the company's value decreased by approximately 600 billion dollars.
The media didn't fire anyone, they started a chain where everyone had to respond. The board was forced to open an investigation, Congress called Huang for a briefing, lawyers prepared a lawsuit from the shareholders, the stock market included risk in the price, and each next step narrowed his place. 20 years ago there weren't so many structures around the head of the company that couldn't keep quiet when the issue was at the forefront.
The spy story could have been dropped, Trump stood by Huang, and the council repeated "trust" for four days. The publication of the affair with a subordinate finished him, because he moved the story from national security, where he had allies, to corporate ethics, where there was no one to protect. It came out exactly on the day of the council meeting, so only those who had the material in advance get the exact date.
A letter to the employees to whom Huang wanted to push the story blew him away, because he admitted what everyone understood, treason, and kept quiet about the only thing that mattered, about the leaks. In doing so, he himself transferred the story to the tabloid genre and gave the memes a simple plot. The memes already had a pattern: last summer, a camera at a Coldplay concert showed the head of the American Astronomy company on the big screen in a hunched hug, and three days later he left.