GM on NBC

Week of Feb. 22, 1993
NBC "News" apologizes for airing staged footage on "Dateline NBC" purporting to show a GM truck erupting in flames after a side-impact collision. While some wonder if NBC "News" can recover from the humiliation, TIME predicts the demise of solid consumer reporting on television.

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