Is this the network that faked the “exploding pick-up truck gas tanks”? Not that it matters; I don’t trust ANY of them to tell the truth...
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No, that was NBC. For those who aren’t familiar with the indicent, IIRC it went something like this: General motors wanted to give their trucks a lot of range between refueling, so they used large tanks that extended outside of the frame rails. Some people argued that this made them more susceptible to rupture in an accident, and I believe there might have even been a couple of accidents where the tanks did rupture. So NBC decided to do an “expose” and crashed a truck with a full gas tank. No rupture, so they tried overfilling the tank, and leaving the cap off. Still no rupture. They kept trying more and more farfetched scenarios, and I think they finally had to place explosives in the tank to get the explosion. It leaked or someone figured it out from seeing the video and it was a big scandal.