Re: Donna gets heard - and seen! (on Nightline, of course)

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>]

  Dan Billings wrote:

>They also dug out the Minot, North Dakota story to illustrate the problem,
>which Scott nicely shows to have little to do with the issue at all.

This is nothing new for media coverage...both public and commercial media 
are guilty of it.  Taking a lot of half-truths and expanding them into a 
story that distorts the issue almost beyond recognition.  Remember NBC's 
story on gas tanks in Chevy trucks where they actually staged the 
explosions?  And they got caught only because they pulled it off clumsily.

Always makes a good story when you attack the big bad corporations.  The 
truth (as was pointed out in Scott's article) is less cut & dried, and 
thusly is much more dull.  Alas, this is the kind of "journalism" that 
attracts attention.