Thread: Tragedy in Tennessee

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The article by Jeff Burk very accurately describes what happens when any reporter does an interview with someone........only a very small portion of the interview gets used, and that portion can be 180 degrees out of phase with what the interviewee was trying to say. Over the years I have done a few interviews for local media on various subjects, and when I see the finished article in print or on TV, it is nowhere near what we had talked about. The reporters only want to use what is sensational, not what is accurate.

As Jeff mentioned, every article I am seeing on this tragedy is headed with the words "Drag Racing." Not one has said "Charity Event EXHIBITION." That is going to be planted in John Q Public's mind as all drag racing and modified cars being no good killers.

I have seen posts where people have said the Promoter and driver are the nicest guys on this planet, and that is probably true........after all they were kind enough to be helping out a charity event for kids. But everyone involved in this mess used extremely poor judgement, especially knowing that a car of this nature is a handful to navigate down a normal dragstrip, let alone down a city street lined with hundreds of unprotected people. You would have thought one person in the mix would have said "I don't think this is a good idea."

Don

you cant fix stupid , that car should never been fired outside of the shop or on the track period. they knew better.