Jay Carney: Corporate Mouthpiece now? Apparently.

Amazon Still Pretty Angry About That New York Times Story

Jay Carney offers detailed response to front-page story -- two months later.

Two months after the New York Times published a damning investigation into its workplace culture, Amazon is fighting back.

In a blog post on Medium published Monday morning, Amazon spokesperson Jay Carney claims that the Times' reporters Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld failed to check the accuracy of the anecdotes in the piece.

"Had the reporters checked their facts, the story they published would have been a lot less sensational, a lot more balanced, and, let’s be honest, a lot more boring," he writes. "It might not have merited the front page, but it would have been closer to the truth."

The Times' executive editor, Dean Baquet, tore apart Carney's post in his own blog on Medium. Kantor and Streitfeld spoke with more than 100 current and former Amazon employees, Baquet said. Nothing in Carney's latest response refutes their claims, he writes, adding, "This story was based on dozens of interviews. And any reading of the responses leaves no doubt that this was an accurate portrait."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-jay-carney-new-york-times-story_5624ee94e4b08589ef47f960

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OMG, it's the actual Jay Carney defending Amazon's horrendous workplace conditions? OK, I give up. Apparently almost everyone sells out to our Corporate Overlords.



Amazon spokesman and former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.