Steve Kerch, the assistant managing editor of Marketwatch.com, writes that the media coverage of Toyota’s safety issues has gotten to be too much, with the latest example being the Prius in California with the stuck gas pedal.
“This, though, has become the American Way, ever since O.J. meandered down a California freeway in his Ford Bronco. The cable networks now salivate over any sort of highway chase or high-speed thriller, hoping they have the next classic road drama — and, though they won’t admit it, hoping even harder it is the next road disaster — live and in person.
“Well, this wasn’t it. But we’re still forced to endure the media hype as if it was. Say, whatever happened to the Balloon Boy?”
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