Tone at the Top, Ethics
Once upon a time, a major television news group rigged a major U.S. automaker’s truck to explode upon impact with another object. The news group was trying to demonstrate that the automaker had placed the gas tanks on the truck in a dangerous location. Many of these trucks’ gas tanks had exploded when the trucks were involved in accidents. However, the trucks that the news group were using for their production did not explode on contact, apparently. So the news group provided the gas tanks with some assistance by adding explosive materials, thus making the trucks go up in flames on impact with another object. According to newspaper reports of this incident, the president of the television network stated that the problem was not so much that it happened but that the news group got caught.
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What tone did the television network executive set when he stated that the problem was not so much that it happened but that the news group got caught?
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