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COMMENTS: Gasoline Makes a Comeback
It has been almost 18 months since any of the nightly newscasts considered it worth the effort to assign a correspondent to check out the price at the pump at a filling station. Suddenly CBS decides to send Bill Whitaker out to buy some gasoline. Cheap gas does not make news--only the expensive kind. With the national cost of a gallon averaging $3, it looks like that threshold is being crossed.
Also on the highway, Brian Ross could find only a single death to report out of 800 accidents for his Investigates feature on ABC into rear axle problems in Ford Motors' early model Windstar minivans. So he relied on a simulated accident on a test track to publicize Ford's expensive recall to get the problem fixed.
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