[CMOTB]

Wasen't it 60 minutes who, not being able to get a pickup truck to explode, strapped rocket engines to the underside of the truck? They couldn't make the pickup explode from a side impact or something so they stuck the engines on the tank to make the tank explode? I think it was somewhere around 1992 or 93. Then they led the viewers to believe the impact caused it... until they were caught of course.

[WoofDog123]

It was NBC i.e. General Electric, who ended up paying an undisclosed sum to GM as well as having the President of NBC news apologize on the air.

[HollywoodRepublican]

Wasen't it 60 minutes who, not being able to get a pickup truck to explode, strapped rocket engines to the underside of the truck?

Actually, that was NBC's Dateline, in 1993. But it's all part of the same phenomenon.

[TC Rider]

It was NBC Dateline.

FWIW, ABC faked the Food Lion meat scandel, though they were set up by the union. (they paid too as I recall)