of blame to go around. turns out the japanese automaker with a sterling reputation has had its share of manufacturing defects in the past and federal regulators failed to crack down. some toyota owners have been in rebellion as they say the company ignored their repeated reports of problems involving both those brakes and the more serious issue of uncontrolled acceleration. >> the national highway traffic safety administration says it received some 2,000 complaints, and this is for the sudden acceleration dating back to 2004. >> the national highway traffic safety administration is investigateing to situation. but it turns out the agency was warned back in 2008 about accelerator problems in other toyota models. they did nothing. >> one question las gone largely unanswered in the debacle, where were the media? did they give the company a pass for the safety issues over the years? why did journalists pay so little attention to the toyota investigations by the national traffic highway safety