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The series has been accused of making news rather than reporting news, blurring the line between being a news organization vs. an agency of law enforcement,[4] and having its host impersonating a police officer.
Among the more prominent critics of the series has been Brian Montopoli of the CBS News Public Eye blog and formerly of the Columbia Journalism Review. Montopoli argues that although Dateline NBC leaves legal punishment up to police and prosecutors, broadcasting the suspects on national television, in the context of exposing criminal behavior, is already a form of punishment which the media has no right to inflict. Montopoli also suggests that NBC News is more concerned about ratings than actually bringing online predators to justice
To have a person standing in a kitchen drinking cool aid and say that he would have done something, when there are cameras rolling, does not go far enough in my mind
Originally posted by ExPostFacto
I would be all for this type of detective work if the show went a little further by maybe having the "child" tell the person they were gonna "do it" and ask the pervert to get naked.
IMO - this is too far. Pedophiles are one of the worst types of criminals. Anyone who could stand up for one who's been proven to be guilty...just absolutely amazes me
Originally posted by spliff4020
I would rather that, than read about him in the paper the next day for having a girl he kidnapped living in his backyard... oh wait... that really happened....
You go Chris Hansen. Lock up the perv!
Originally posted by gimme_some_truth
How can anyone do such horrible things to a child? how can anybody cause such pain to a child?
Originally posted by chiron613
Or, if you don't like that, then stop calling them "sick". You don't kick sick people. If you insist on kicking these people, then just call them bad, not sick.
Originally posted by chiron613
You know, we keep calling these people "sick", but we treat them as evil. True, what they do is evil. But if they're sick, then they deserve our sympathy. That's how you treat sick people - with sympathy, not scorn.
OK, so if these pedophiles are sick, then they deserve our compassion.
Why can't we do something like that with the pedophiles? Take them out of circulation, not as criminals, but as the sick people they are, put them into "sanitariums" of a sort so as to keep them from hurting anyone else. The evidence suggests that predatory pedophiles cannot be rehabilitated. OK, so keep these people off the streets, in communities, but stop treating them like criminals.