NBC TRIES TO RILE NASCAR FANS WITH --- MUSLIMS!

HERE'S A STORY 'RIPPED' FROM THE WIRES, AS THEY SAY...KEEP IN MIND THAT NBC IS STILL PAYING MILLIONS TO CARRY NASCAR RACES! AND WASN'T "DATELINE NBC" THE SHOW WHICH "MADE CERTAIN" THAT PARTICULAR CARS AND TRUCKS WOULD "BLOW UP" WHEN INVOLVED IN ACCIDENTS...GUARANTEEING THE ENGULFING ON-CAMERA FIRE STORM BY RIGGING THE VEHICLES WITH CANS OF GASOLINE AND EXPLOSIVE TRIGGERS...?

NEW YORK  - NASCAR officials criticized an NBC news magazine program 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 Friday.
     "Dateline NBC" defended its reporting in a statement.      
     "Dateline is not planning a story about NASCAR," it said. "We are following up on a recent poll and other articles indicating an increase in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. We are curious about whether that is true. The NASCAR race at Martinsville was a stop we have made in our research on this story, which may take us across the country."
     NBC said there was nothing new about this technique in TV newsgathering, noting that government agencies and journalists conduct such investigations to expose possible discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations.
     NASCAR, which boasts rising television ratings and a growing and highly loyal fan base, is in the final year of a contract with NBC Sports, which will broadcast the second half of the Nextel Cup season.

THE BOTTOM LINE IS --- NBC PARADED THESE "DRESSED-LIKE-MUSLIMS" CHARACTERS ALL OVER THE TRACK AT MARTINSVILLE --- AND NOTHING HAPPENED! TOO BAD NBC --- BETTER 'DATELINE' STICK WITH BLASTING CAPS AND GASOLINE TO "ENSURE" GETTING THE NEWS...

Comments

[steve parker]

Jack-

Yawn?!? Come on, this is maybe a bit too "news-y" for the site, but that's the business I am in and it angers me when news reporters try to be news makers. DATELINE has admitted to paying over $100,000 to that 'perverted justice' group for helping them set-up supposed Internet child molesters, and that a WHOLE other story! But based on their history of blowing up Chevy trucks and now paying civilians to "make news", I think they have some "'splaining to do", as Ricky would say to Lucy. Add to that record this NASCAR/Muslim story and maybe NBC has a bigger problem in THEIR news department than CBS ever did!

[steve parker]

Thank you, Professor Atwood! I do not think NBC ever ran the story because there was nothing to run...no "news" of NASCAR fans getting rude with Muslims! Having worked in several TV newsrooms, local and network, I can state nearly-categorically, that the DATELINE producers, based on their history (they recently admitted to paying OVER $100,000 to the group "perverted justice" to help trap supposed child molesters trolling the Internet), I don't think ANY scientific thought other than "ratings" went into their plan for this story!

[G. T. Atwood, Ph.D.]

OK, then. Was NBC honest enough to run a segment anyway, showing how, to test for prejudice towards Arabs, they set up a situation designed to provoke anti Arab behavior and stating that they were unable to find any? In scientific research, you can't cherry pick your outcomes. If your results don't support your hypothesis, you must report that fact exactly the same as you would have reported supporting results. If NBC did it this way, they were doing legitimate research, and what they did was justified. If not, they were merely manipulating and sensationalizing.

[jack alexander]

yawn!?