Amazon was also caught producing and distributing television segments touting the company’s achievements28 in “keeping its employees safe and healthy,” while passing them off to content-hungry local television stations as real journalism. At least eleven stations aired the packages, with their anchors reading the identical scripts word for word. It made for a fitting tribute to stakeholder capitalism—official words of corporate empathy broadcast in unison, while the cameras cut away from protesting workers massing in Amazon warehouse parking lots.
