ABC admits messing around with report on Toyota

ABC admits tinkering with Toyota report

So here we have a media outlet who admits making up things in order to "get a story out". They tried to illustrate the problem Toyota was having with their cars but instead fabricated a whole new problem because of what they did... Of course they still ran with the story...

This is clear evidence of what kind of power media has over people. They DECIDE what they want to show you and what you are to believe...

I just hope that more and more of these stories will come out so that people can see the true nature of "free press" in a "free country"...

And don't worry, I know that we have the same problems here with our media in Canada...

Peace,

Magnum

For the record, this was spotted in this post by kinda kurious a few days ago. Interesting to see that it was true.

[edit on 3-11-2010 by rogerstigers]

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Wow thanks. I am equally impressed that you noticed that I noticed.
As I mentioned I am a video editor by trade and a car buff on the side, so it was an obvious catch.

Besides when I do something right nobody remembers, but when I do something wrong nobody forgets.

Thanks rogerstigers, you've made my day.

Seems to me somebody has got Japan by the cojones and isn't letting go any time soon.

What happens next may not be pretty.

You know that guy in the Prius out in California? The most recent news story about a ''sticking accelerator''? I think that guy just caught speeding and called 911 to make an excuse. Seriously. Didn't the guy slow down his own car and the Police car parked in front of it to prevent a mishap. The picture makes it look like the Police got in front and slowed down the runaway car. It is bogus. The guy was speeding and got caught and lied about the accelerator. Listen to the audio. He is laughing on the 911 call!

Journalistic integrity.

I remember when those weren't a suggestion, but an absolute.

Guess those days are gone, huh.

I really think it's all bogus too.
But here is a toyota simulator anyway.

And my mother-in-law wonders why I've sworn off television news.
Nothing surprising about this story.
ABC and their ilk have been pulling this for over 30 years now.

It Didn't Start With Dateline NBC

IN JUNE 1978, at the height of the Ford Pinto outcry, ABC's 20/20 reported "startling new developments": evidence that full-size Fords, not just the subcompact Pinto, could explode when hit from behind. The show's visual highlight was dramatic. Newly aired film from tests done at UCLA in 1967 by researchers under contract with the automaker showed a Ford sedan being rear-ended at 55 mph and bursting into a fireball.

If ABC really analyzed those UCLA test reports, it had every reason to know why the Ford in the crash film burst into flame: there was an incendiary device under it. The UCLA testers explained their methods in a 1968 report published by the Society of Automotive Engineers, fully ten years before the 20/20 episode. As they explained, one of their goals was to study how a crash fire affected the passenger compartment of a car, and to do that they needed a crash fire. But crash fires occur very seldom; in fact, the testers had tried to produce a fire in an earlier test run without an igniter but had failed. Hence their use of the incendiary device (which they clearly and fully described in their write-up) in the only test run that produced a fire.