Re: Streetcar conspiracy show on SBS Saturday 25/9 7:30pm

[billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org (Bill Bolton)]

"Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au> wrote:

> The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney) TV guide lists a show on SBS on Sat 25/9 at
> 7:30 pm called "As it Happened: Taken For A Ride". Their description
> follows:
> "An extraordinary documentary exploding the myth of the family car. Before
> the birth of the motor vehicle, America was serviced by a network of cheap,
> clean streetcars. Taken For A Ride reveals how General Motors led the push
> to destroy the streetcars, using misinformation and dummy companies, buying
> them out, and replacing them with buses, intended to make a natural
> transition to motor cars. The propaganda war was so extraordinary that at
> one point a GM transport engineer proclaimed bus fumes were not harmful."

Unfortunately, there is very selective reporting of "facts" in this
documentary, which results in a quite misleading picture.  

Consultation of the actual source material *in its entirity* provides
a different view altogether.

Cheers,

Bill