I woke this morning to do my usual news reading and stumbled across something quite staggering in the media.
An article was posted by a New Zealand reporter about a secret spy camera found in an Airbnb in Auckland. Or so the title said. The title was as per below:
Since the article was posted, the entire NZ breakfast news ring has blown up, quoting Airbnb all over the place. It’s all “Airbnb unacceptable this” and “Airbnb unsafe for people” that....
As I write this I’m watching a live expert give her legal opinion... she has just told the public “people need to be wary of these Airbnb owners, in terms of Airbnb you’re not staying in a hotel, so in an Airbnb you don’t have the same level of safety and security...” she has used the word Airbnb 3 times almost without a breath.
But here’s the thing: It was not an Airbnb listing or host!! it was a Booking.com listing!!
Airbnb hosts in New Zealand have risen up and written to the owner of the article and pointed out that the “title does not match the copy”. The reporter has now updated the title to remove the words “Airbnb”... but not before the article has been reposted, quoted, been discussed in live breakfast news... all with the wrong headline.
I expect this will be global news in the next 24 hours (usually a delay on NZ news), so let’s see whether it still has the Airbnb tag line when it gets there...
Madness!
PS: I expect the Aussies on here to get the movie reference in the post title. For those who do, I salute you 🙂