What Next With The Media?

[SB 405]

I found something the other day while surfing some Motorsports web sites I thought I'd share since it has to do with the media which we have been talking about in other threads. Guess if the show Dateline can't cover news they resort to making it. Speaking as a fan of all Motorsports I find this in poor taste because I know exactly the crap they were trying to pull.

http://www.thatsracin.com/mld/thatsracin/14272351.htm

[Mac]

That's "trash journalism" at its worst. :evil:

[SB 405]

And because none of the fans bothered these guys do you think for one minute this story will air? Anyone recall when Dateline did a story about GM pick up trucks "blowin' up" a number of years ago when involved in side impact accidents and it was later discovered the film crew rigged the trucks with ignighters?

Just a piece of a story I found.....

Following a tip, GM hired detectives, searched 22 junkyards for 18 hours, and found evidence to debunk almost every aspect of the crash sequence. In a devastating press conference, GM showed that the conflagration was rigged, its causes misattributed, its severity overstated and other facts distorted. Two crucial errors: NBC said the truck's gas tank had ruptured, yet an X ray showed it hadn't; NBC consultants set off explosive miniature rockets beneath the truck split seconds before the crash -- yet no one told the viewers.

[bcjack]

Mid 60's GMC and Chevy pickups with the gas tank on the driver's side, infront of the left rear wheel and between the fender and the bed. The truck did explode when an explosive device was used on the gas tank.

[SB 405]

If I remember bc it was because the fuel tank was installed on the outside of the frame rail under the bed with just the sheet metal of the body protecting the tank.

[bcjack]

Correct...Infront of the left rear wheel, between the outside sheet metal of the fender and the inside sheet metal of the bed, but outside of the frame. The gas tank was only protected by the 18 gauge sheet metal exterior of the of the bed. The media STILL had to use "Help" to get the truck to catch fire consistently.