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On Toyota, reporters aren’t letting facts get in the way...

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Jul 2010: An article to be published in the August 9, 2010 issue of Forbes magazine print edition by Michael Fumento
93 and Counting: In their Toyota coverage reporters aren’t letting facts get in the way of a good story
It begins..."The jig seems to be up on the runaway-Toyota scare. Mounting evidence indicates that those Toyotas that are truly suddenly accelerating can probably be explained by sliding floor mats (since fixed) and drivers hitting the gas instead of the brake. That is, the media have been chasing a will o’ the wisp for the better part of a year, whipping car buyers and Congress into a frenzy.
Where are Woodward and Bernstein when you need them? Shouldn’t the accounts of alleged unintended acceleration deaths have been subjected to a little checking?"
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