{"id":1058,"date":"2006-04-06T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T06:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:41","slug":"nbc_into_the_pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"NBC Into The Pits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m <strike>flailing<\/strike> working on the larger media piece, I&#8217;ll note that there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/029546.php\" target=\"browser\">a lot of blogosphere reaction<\/a> to NBC&#8217;s effort to entrap (there&#8217;s no other word for it) NASCAR fans with decoy Arabs (there&#8217;s no other word for using Sikhs).<\/p>\n<p>NBC apparently has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.org\/publications\/aim_report\/1993\/03a.html\" target=\"browser\">a short memory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Michael Gartner resigned as president of NBC News six days after NBC had made its second on-the-air apology in 15 days for having used fakery in its news shows. On February 9, it confessed to having rigged crash tests of GM C\/K pickup trucks to support the claim on Dateline NBC that these trucks are &#8220;rolling fire bombs waiting to explode.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;d think they&#8217;d realize that <i>staged action + pickup trucks \/ NASCAR<\/i> will inevitably end badly for them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And as a gratuitous editorial, can I invite the Dateline crew to join me at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=4&#038;url=http%3A\/\/www.halsbarandgrill.com\/pages\/contact.php&#038;ei=5aw0RNzHG528YIPj7JIF&#038;sig2=_Z3j6Osi5MwJppkpfDYOEw\" target=\"browser\">Hal&#8217;s<\/a> for dinner, where I&#8217;ll stand up and loudly announce that I hunt, own guns, and support the war in Iraq? The reactions there will be priceless as well, I can assure you (note that I love the food at Hal&#8217;s and eat there often).<\/p>\n<p><b>[Update:<\/b> TG went and read the linked article and pointed this out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;We deeply regret we included the inappropriate demonstration in our Dateline report. We apologize to our viewers and to General Motors. We have also concluded that unscientific demonstrations should have no place in hard news stories at NBC. That&#8217;s our new policy.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A short-lived one, it appears&#8230;<b>]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC heads into the pits as they try and entrap NASCAR fans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}