NBC's Dateline did the phony exploding Chevy PU story. GM rolled out the
lawyers and made NBC fess up on the air (in order to avoid a $100 million

Remember it well. Seems it was another network (surprise ) who picked up on
it first g. Probably not that they (media) don't dig up "facts" to report,
but rather that they selectively report (and embellish) the "facts" that
support their editorial position or sensationalize the story to gain audience.
Of course, either is clearly "yellow journalism" and rampant in the media all
over the world. "60 Minutes" is probably the most notorious for deliberate
distortion of "facts" IMO.
Greg Sefton