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Local TV News Stations Present Amazon PR Video as Journalism

About a dozen local TV news stations aired a video segment produced by Amazon. Some identified the source, but most just let TV viewers assume the video was a news story, rather than a PR piece hosted by an Amazon employee.

Journalism matters.

See Forbes for details on the story.

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