From an article about NBC admitting that it staged and faked a GM
truck exploding in a crash during a story on 60 Minutes:
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"They had a good story until they did that.... They had a smoking
gun and they shot themselves in the foot."
-- Don Hewitt, executive producer fo 60 Minutes.
"NBC vs. GM: The Peacock Stumbles : Television: The public confession is one of the low moments at a network whose recent history has been tainted by disappointments and public-relations debacles." by Howard Rosenberg,
Los Angeles Times
(February 11, 1993)
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-11/entertainment/ca-1627_1_dateline-nbc