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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 08:04 PM
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NBC's Dateline Caught in New Scandal
(AXcess News) New York - Slowly -- ever so slowly -- a new mainstream news media scandal is being exposed by members of the so-called new media. This time it's NBC News "Dateline", which is being investigated for allegedly creating news rather than reporting news.

According to producers at NBC News, the show is attempting to film Americans reaction to seeing Muslim men in their midst at public events. And, although they'll never admit it, they're pulling their stunt at events they believe will attract the most rednecks.

For instance, NBC sent a film crew with a group of "Muslim-looking men" to a NASCAR event in Virginia in order to film the reaction of the spectators. Apparently, NBC believes that's where they're likely to get a desired reaction from the bigots who attend NASCAR races. In the middle of a war on terrorism, NBC wants to show "Dateline" viewers that Americans are a bunch of bigots.

NASCAR officials called it "outrageous" that "Dateline" targeted its racetrack for a segment on anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, according to Roanoke.com. One can't help but wonder: if there is no reaction to having Muslim men walking around the NASCAR track, will NBC still show the segment on their show?

http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=8989
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 08:08 PM
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1. Wasn't Dateline caught doing something like this several years ago?
Edited on Fri Apr-07-06 08:09 PM by BattyDem
Wasn't there a scandal involving a "defect" in GM cars? I believe Dateline rigged it to explode on impact.

They have a habit of "creating" news by manipulating the circumstances. :eyes:

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creeksneakers2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 08:15 PM
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2. They filmed the Muslims in lots of places
Edited on Fri Apr-07-06 09:03 PM by creeksneakers2
This is a perfectly legitimate question for a news program to look at. The righties and NASCAR folks who see this as an attack must fear that Muslims will be mistreated if they come to their events. (I doubt they will be) Guess the righties fear what could possibly come out.

That, and righties love to hear they are victims. This time they'll say its a plot to get righties, just because they were included on the list.
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Lin Donating Member (594 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 08:31 PM
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5. WHAT scandal? Investigative reporting? Dateline would be looking be
at a real social problem here, actually, I'm surprised but heartened that a news show would bother to do this....shades of the old 60 Minutes shows. I say yea!
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 08:29 PM
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3. Sounds more like Op Mockingbird or CNN and PsyOps IMHO
These stunts that 'catapult the propaganda' are something the current administration needs in order to distract and deceive.
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Poppyseedman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 08:31 PM
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4. If NBC really wants to get some exciting film footage
Why doesn't NBC film a christian street preacher passing out bibles in the Saudi Kingdom?
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DearAbby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 09:02 PM
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6. I don't see anything wrong with the idea...
If it is not manipulated reactions.

Imagine if they wanted to see the reactions of people that are obese? would people be concerned about it?

What does the NASCAR people have to worry about, unless they already know the outcome of the investigation? This could be used as a valuable lesson.
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MrMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 09:18 PM
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7. Does the OP vouch for this site as a source of information?
The linked article is touted there as a news story, but the article is more of a low-rent op-ed piece, full of speculation and a pronounced tone of self-righteous indignation.

Here are excerpts from two more of the sites so-called news stories:

http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=8988

Trouble in Marxist Paradise: Protesters Take to Streets in Venezuela

(AXcess News) New York - Protesters in Venezuela are taking to the streets by the thousands in anger over the recovery of the bodies of three boys kidnapped on their way to school. However, don't expect to read or hear about it in the US news media. There's trouble in President Hugo Chavez's Marxist utopia and it's not a pretty sight for his leftist cheerleaders in the US and Europe.

Police wearing riot gear fired tear gas at demonstrators blocking a road as thousands of marchers brought Caracas traffic to a standstill while demanding justice, according to video from the BBC.

After the protests, the capital's mayor said he was replacing the chief of police with an army brigadier general, which probably means the government will use more force when dealing with demonstrators, reports the BBC.

<snip>

In fact, recently, he <Chavez> called on the impoverished masses to rise up and forcibly seize property and money from those better off. His slow purge of the middle class leaves professionals, business owners and shopkeepers facing the hostility of the poor whom the Marxist leader has encouraged in an effort to keep a majority of voters who are poor voting for him in future elections.

Chavez has been actively and routinely encouraging hatred for those who have, among those who have not. A tactic he shares with leftists in the United States. Only in Hugo's case, his people take his words to mean "permission to use violence."

<snip>

http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=8986

Hispanic Group Blasts Sen. Reid for Obstructing Real Immigration Reform

(AXcess News) New York - In a stunning political flip-flop Minority Leader Harry Reid uses a parliamentary procedure to crush debate on a reasonable immigration bill which appeared headed for bi-partisan success, according to officials with the Hispanic Alliance for Progress.
The Hispanic group is blasting Senator Reid for his blocking debate on the amendments to the immigration bill which one day earlier, seemingly, had the support of the US Senate.

In what appears to be a purely political attempt to sabotage debate on a reasonable and comprehensive immigration bill, Minority Leader Reid is leaving Washington, DC today for a Senate recess rather than allow the compromise bill to pass the Senate, claims chairman Manual Lujan.
"Senator Reid stunned all participants in the immigration reform movement by blocking fellow Senators from considering additional amendments to the bill, all in an obvious attempt to sabotage any success; it appears the Senator prefers the US House to lead this debate," said Lujan

<snip>

The Hispanic Alliance for Progress Institute (HAPI), a national Hispanic advocacy and policy organization Chaired by Manuel Lujan, former 20 year Member of Congress (R-NM) and Cabinet Secretary calls on Senator Reid to stay in Washington, continue discussions, and solve the issue at hand, rather than stifle fellow Senator's comments, amendments, and debate.
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MrMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 09:26 PM
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8. They also plagiarize like crazy.
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Steve A Play Donating Member (638 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 09:38 PM
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9. How about these?
Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - NASCAR officials criticized an NBC news magazine program on Friday, saying it tried "to manufacture the news" by bringing a group of Muslim men to one of its car races to see if they would be mistreated by NASCAR fans.

"Dateline NBC" countered by saying it was not doing a story on NASCAR when it sent cameras to gauge reaction to the Muslims brought to Martinsville Speedway in Virginia, but was exploring a possible story based on a poll indicating an increase in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States.

NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said the group walked around outside the Martinsville track without incident, but said the car racing organization objected to the staged nature of the TV shoot.

"It's outrageous that a news organization like NBC would seek to manufacture the news instead of reporting the news," Poston told Reuters on Friday.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=televisionNews&storyID=2006-04-07T214727Z_01_N07583746_RTRIDST_0_TELEVISION-MEDIA-NASCAR-DC.XML


Slate.com

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Race-baiting at the races? NASCAR—not to mention a few bloggers, led by Michelle Malkin—is angry that Dateline NBC has sent people dressed in Muslim garb to a racing event to gauge public reaction as part of a piece on anti-Muslim sentiment in America.

Conservative blogger Malkin weighed in on the story starting Tuesday, after receiving an e-mail from a Muslim who was solicited to participate in the segment. She gives a rundown of reactions from NASCAR officials and fans. "The mainstream media can't ignore NBC's news-staging anymore," she snarks.

"A news organization is responsible for reporting news, not making news. … But this was NBC simply thinking, 'Anti-Muslim sentiment? Must be a LOT of that at the racetrack! Let's go there and get it!' " says Jay on See You at the Yard, Meat.

Moderate Karl Swenson at Leaning Straight Up laments that some fans are destined to fall for such a ruse and "the truly sad thing is that they will paint all of Nascar fandom as sheet toting, cross burning racists because of a few idiots."

http://www.slate.com/id/2139500/

Lots more here, http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&q=Dateline,+NASCAR,+Muslim&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&start=0
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