The More Things Change....

...the more they stay the same.

Here is a headline and subhead from the New York Times of Sept. 12, 2000, top of the front page (p. A 1):

DOCUMENTS INDICATE FORD KNEW OF ENGINE DEFECT BUT WAS SILENT

Company Denied An Ignition Problem For Years

Gee, how very like the current situation with Toyota!

Then of course there was the murderous Ford Pinto. Mother Jones magazine (not the New York Times or their ilk) exposed the fact that Ford coldly calculated the cost of