Thursday, April 06, 2006

The Fix Is In For Dateline NBC's NASCAR Story

NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston is calling out the television news magazine "Dateline NBC" for saying it tried to provoke anti-Muslim reactions from spectators at last week's race for a story about growing U.S. sentiment against Islam. NBC confirmed it was sending Muslim-looking men to a race, along with a camera crew to film fans' reactions. Poston said the NBC crew was "apparently on site in Martinsville, Virginia, walked around and no one bothered them."

While NASCAR does get criticism for its southern roots mixed with moonshining and for fans displaying numerous flags of the Confederacy from the American Civil War, Dateline has seen its far share of criticism from a history of doctoring results of product tests and exposes.

- NASCAR: Dateline NBC's Plan 'Outrageous' (Forbes)
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