Words telling about Amazon It turned out that unfortunate news was being broadcast on 10 different TV stations



It has been confirmed that eight employees died in the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) at Amazon, and at the shareholders meeting held on May 27, what kind of safety measures Amazon is taking It

is expected that a report will be required to be displayed . Meanwhile, it became clear that 'news telling about Amazon's efforts' was sent to ten local TV stations, word for word, just before the shareholders meeting.

WATCH: 10 Local TV Stations Pushed the Same Amazon-Scripted Segment
https://couriernewsroom.com/2020/05/26/11-local-tv-stations-that-pushed-amazon-scripted-segment/

COVID-19 epidemic caused lockdowns in many countries and increased demand for Amazon, but on the other hand, employees are worried that Amazon's warehouse is not adequately infected. Was up.

Confessing the fear that Amazon's warehouse worker faces in the new coronavirus pandemic-GIGAZINE



Under such circumstances, it was reported that some employees actually died of COVID-19, and employees who sought safety measures were dismissed. In France, inadequate safety measures forced the temporary Amazon warehouse to close.

Amazon temporarily closed the French warehouse, because the new corona virus countermeasure was insufficient-GIGAZINE



Although Amazon had a lot of problems under the COVID-19 epidemic, it turned out that different regional television stations in the US reported 'the same contents and images about Amazon' as news before the shareholders meeting. You can see how the newscaster read the exact same sentence in different programs and the same video was played from the following movie.

11 Local TV Stations Pushed the Same Amazon-Scripted Segment-YouTube


A newscaster tells us that 'millions of Americans spending their time at home rely on Amazon' in a program called 'News 13.'



Immediately after that, the caster of the show 'LEX18' now delivers the exact same sentence, 'Millions of Americans at home rely on Amazon.'



In other news, I read aloud sentences word by word, and when I synthesized the images, the chorus of 'Millions of Americans at home relying on Amazon' sounded.



The sentence 'Amazon has transferred operations to protect employees from COVID-19 while delivering parcels to consumers,' although the word sequence and word selection are slightly different, the same content is still read in multiple news It is being done.





If you listen to the different news four times in a row, you can clearly see that the same sentence is intentionally flowed.



It was also highlighted that overtime work of $ 800 million was paid during the pandemic.



The programs that broadcast the above Amazon news are as follows.

・ WTVG-ABC, Toledo, Ohio
・ WGXA-ABC, Macon, Georgia
・ WTVJ-NBC, Miami, Florida
· WKRN-ABC, Nashville, Tennessee
・ WLEX-NBC, Lexington, Kentucky (2 broadcasts)
· WVVA-NBC, Bluefield, West Virginia
・ WTVM-ABC, Columbus, Georgia (2 broadcasts)
・ KMIR-NBC, Palm Springs, CA (3 times)
· WBTW-CBS, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
・ WOAY-ABC, Bluefield, West Virginia (2 broadcasts)

Many people have criticized the situation where a TV station reports the content handed by Amazon as news. At the time of writing the article, the content of the script (PDF file) created by Amazon public relations Todd Walker and passed to the news program was known, and several TV stations admitted that Amazon provided the image I will.



Wes Armstead, WVVA News Director, was asked to comment on Amazon's news coverage, 'I didn't know this package came from Amazon. Be careful not to do this again. I will do it. '

Amazon's public relations also acknowledge that the text and video were created and distributed to Business Wire, which distributes corporate news releases. On the other hand, “We welcome reporters to join us, and this has caused misleading. We have internal policies that take health and safety into account, and we focus on that policy. I created a video that I guessed, but I did not intend this to fall into the hands of a reporter who did not participate in the media tour, '' the public relations announced and thought that the video was intentionally broadcast to the TV station. Is denied.

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