NASCAR: NBC News Plan "Outrageous"

NASCAR is not happy with NBC's attempt to stage a "news story" by attempting to entice fans into confronting Muslims at a NASCAR race.

A NASCAR spokesman termed NBC's plan "outrageous" and said "Every legitimate journalist should be offended by this."

NBC's attempt to create a story appears to have failed. Michelle Malkin has an interesting roundup of reader commentary, including a note from a NASCAR fan who thinks he may have spotted the NBC "ringers" last weekend.

The Washington Times and NewsBusters have more.

As one of my readers pointed out in a comment yesterday, this isn't the first time NBC and Dateline have "staged" news -- remember the exploding cars some years ago?

As an aside, I suspect most NASCAR fans are happy this is NBC Sports' last year airing races. Their coverage can't compare with the superb broadcasts on Fox.