Last week, Amazon, the online shopping behemoth, emailed local TV newsrooms across the country to pitch a pre-scripted video package touting its new fulfillment center safety protocols. The trillion-dollar company is in damage control mode amid mounting reports alleging that it has endangered its warehouse employees during the pandemic. At least a dozen news stations — including affiliates of ABC, NBC and CBS — have aired near-verbatim or modified versions of the segment in recent days, HuffPost found. “More than 30 of [Amazon’s] workers have gotten COVID-19 in Kenosha and it refuses to cooperate with the local health department. Yet @amazon still has the gall to send newsrooms this pre-packaged trash and hopes a self-respecting news operation would run it,” tweeted A.J.

Source: Huffington Post May 26, 2020 21:22 UTC