administration. joining us michelle maynard, author of the book the selling of the american economy: how foreign companies are remaking the american dream. welcome. good morning. i don t think it s an over state to say toyota had a golden reputation until the wheels came out in recent months. should journalists have been more aggressive about past safety problems? howie, there actually were recalls back in 2005. toyota took a lot of hilts back then. their president came out and bowed low and said we re putting a committeeing to and we want to investigate the recalls and they won t happen again. after a couple of years, the recalls died down a little bit. because things died down, people weren t keeping an eye as much as they could have been on what was going on in toyota until the terrible accident last fall that involved the deaths of about four people in california and a
television is all about pictures and all too often, the same kinds of pictures. in fact, the story telling on tv is sometimes a series of well-worn cliche from the opening shot to the standup closing n an online video that has gone absolutely viral. charlie brokering a, a video journalist and commentator shows us,is done. reporter: it starts here with a lackluster establishing shot of a significant location. next, a walkie talkie preamble from the author, pacing steadily toward the lens, punctuating every other sentence with a hand gesture. hey is there anything wrong with hand jest zmurs i happen to like hand gestures. reporter: often something like this, a fellow shot designed to give your eyes something to look at while my voice babbles on about facts. sometimes it will slow down to a halt in mono chrome and some of the facts lay pear one-on-one by
such a switch. here is the red, white and blue again. of course, the opposition movement in iran today is the green movement. so i suppose it s not a surprise that ahmadinejad might not like that color. but red, white and blue, do you think they know about the united states? thanks to all of you for being part of my pram this week, i will see you next week. stay tuned for reliable sources. raging rumors. the press trumpets unsubstantial ated allegations against david paterson based on what the new york times might report on the governor. stuck in neutral. why did news organizations all but ignore the long history of toyota s troubles? ladies in the lime light, michelle obama defended herman and sarah palin consults her hand. dirty little secret. how to do a tv report without breaking a sweat. first came the rumors on the web, then the mainstream media covered the rumors, the allegations of the rumored new york times story that had not yet been published. then