Evrywhere I look and every channel I turn to, it seems that eveybody is hopping on Toyota’s case about their deffective cars. Not only that, but everyday there is always someone new hopping on the wagon and adds to the number of people attacking toyota and giving them bad publicity and tainting their name. It seems to be the top story for every news channel because it is one of the first stories that the news opens with. I will bet you anything that even today and tomorrow is going to be something else about to toyota. As a matter of fact, I gurantee it.
About a month ago is when I saw an article about the defects of the toyota cars in the Los Angeles Times. When I read it i thought “oh this is very serious.” However, it was not that big of an issue yet all over the media. A couple of weeks later, the toyota defects were all over the news. And everyday it is something new addded. Just a couplemof days ago, the news excposed to the nation that the Prius Hybrid might have defective brakes too. As if toyoyta did not have enough to handle already. And just yesterday, I saw a news story about a woman who had fallen victim of a defective toyota. This one is going to come towards toyota with a strong fist. Imagine it was you and your company being targeted by the media. Not just one news channel, but the majority of them as well. Dont forget to count the newspapers as well. They are a large part of the media too.
Im pretty sure toyota has acknowledged the fact that they distributed defective vehicles and I dont doubt that they are doing everything possible to fix them as quickly as possible. But with the bad publicity coming at them at every possible direction, it is possible that that is one more thing to take care of along with fixing the cars. I just realized i just used the word possible a lot. Anyway, there have also been rumors going around that it is only certain toyotas that came out defective, not all of them. But thanks to the media, everyone now believes every toyota they listed is defective. Whether or not these rumors are true, the media has to be thanked greatly for putting a bad name to toyota with such swiftness.
