Foxconn: pantomime believe us on camera or not?

As we announced earlier this week , the U.S. television network ABC has had access to Foxconn factories in China. But we showed reluctance to find such close ties that bind ABC (Disney) and Apple. In the program, released this week, the journalist claimed that he had accepted the job of covering the story on one condition: to be allowed to report all that was to see, with total objectivity. Was it really so?

It is the first time a television camera access to some Foxconn production plants, which are in the spotlight today. Keep in mind that Apple is not the only company working with Foxconn: others like Nintendo, Sony, HP and Intel also have agreements with the Taiwanese giant. But there are occasional controversy surrounding the report.

According to ABC reporter, every person he saw in the factory had antre 17 and 30 years and did not see "anyone of 13 years, as some tell horror stories." But according to reports today Apple Insider , Foxconn employees hid minors in the presence of journalists and members of the Fair Labor Association, which conducted audits in the factories these days.

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Employees typically earn about two dollars per hour in 12-hour shifts per day (earning a little more if they work during the weekend). And as we knew, most factory workers live in shared rooms with another 5 or 7 total strangers and you just have to deal. In all these hours, only 2 hours can rest. When the reporter sees some workers napping, the manager of Foxconn tells you "it's not that they are tired, but it is a Chinese tradition after eating."

Foxconn makers recognize that if not for the networks that have been placed around the buildings, suicide would not have fallen. Yet despite all conditions, thousands of people are scrambling to work in the factory each week.

From all this it is noteworthy that Foxconn will schedule a visit from ABC journalist and the Fair Labor Association in the same week. And as to the objectivity of the journalist, everything is compromised when the end of the article says that "he has heard complaints from workers about food and quality of life, I'm not very different from a college student."

Do we think this pantomime for the cameras?