NBC News thought the number of Amazon employees who quit because the company won't stop selling a book they don't like was worth a story

What does it take these days to qualify as a national news story? Well, apparently not much:

At least two Amazon employees have resigned in recent weeks to protest the company’s decision to continue to sell a book they say frames young people who identify as transgender as mentally ill. https://t.co/JZw6MNKzkc

— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 14, 2021

Breaking!

Two people?

This wouldn't make a small town newspaper. https://t.co/DgA7nZZWRP

— Bohemio of the Reeeeing Twenties (@El__Bohemio) July 14, 2021

Clearly NBC News is trying to get another narrative to grow from their tiny seed.

2 employees? And that’s newsworthy?

— Don’t Hassle Me, I’m Local (@FightUsers) July 14, 2021

Two people out of over a million employees. This is not news.

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 14, 2021

0.0000015% of Amazon's workforce resigned and NBC wants us to think that's newsworthy.

BTW, an average of 2,000 Amazon employees quit their job daily.

— 𝕐𝕒𝕜𝕠𝕧𝕠𝕝𝕗 (@Yakovolf) July 14, 2021

The media do have their “priorities.”

“At least two”

Amazon may never recover https://t.co/jGmJrp3lmL

— Carson Young (@Young_shots) July 14, 2021

I’m sure Amazon really cares that two woke employees quit. https://t.co/lMz8UBwxJ2

— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) July 14, 2021

NBC thinks two employees quitting is worthy of an article. https://t.co/CMuvYbPdOt

— Cee Gee (@CeeGeeThree2) July 14, 2021

For context: Amazon has almost 800K employees https://t.co/WJv5OlS4bl

— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 14, 2021

It’s called the free market. And they’re free to find other employment.

— C Mac (@Stenomama21) July 14, 2021

They didn’t quit
They transitioned to unemployment

— GL (@Brenray1929) July 14, 2021

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— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 14, 2021

NBC News is really trying to build a controversy from the ground up with that one.