[jaydubya2]

These things happen when you try and mix entertainment with law enforcement.

[johnny7]

Exploding, pick-up truck gas tanks come to mind for some reason...

[jaydubya2]

You may be interested in this...

[MinuteGal]

Are there no sewage-filled depths the MSM won't plumb in their frantic searches for new and increasingly-prurient "news" and "exposes"?

What I watch on TV these days can be stuck in an eyecup.

Leni

[siunevada]

"Although the reports have been subject to some controversy, audience reaction has been overwhelmingly positive."

There's your journalistic 'ethics', lady.

"We're makin' money, what's the problem?"

[tiredoflaundry]

"To Catch a Predator" reports on sting operations that target men who believe they have arranged for sexual liaisons with minors online.

Just damn, that is almost as bad as hoping to win a Toy Yoda! This is just way to unfair to the child molester!

/sarc

[brownsfan]

I don’t have a problem with this. Lured, or from the perp’s own imagination, no one forces these vermin to go where they go, or show up naked.

Chris Hansen is not “nauseatingly smug”, he seems to reflect the nausea I have seeing what these men will do.

NBC sucks, and will do anything for ratings, but in this case, they are taking animals off the street. Good for them.

[Niteranger68]

Marsha Bartel, who was fired last December after a stellar 21-year career with NBC (including 10 years at WMAQ-Channel 5), claimed she was forced out after blowing the whistle on the show for violating journalistic ethical standards and many of NBC's own policies and guidelines.

Huh? WTF is "journalistic ethical standards"?

[AppyPappy]

I love this show. The perverts seem to line up to get caught. Hammering perverts like these should be a national sport.

[ArcadeQuarters]

My favorite line from the show: “You’re heeeere for shex.”

[LantzALot]

These things happen when you try and mix entertainment with law enforcement. ... and "news."

[ishabibble]

>>The setup usually involves the targets’ exposure and humiliation on camera by nauseatingly smug host Chris Hansen. Then they’re arrested by local police outside.<<

This show has always appalled me, and I do think that Chris Hansen displays a sick glee in humiliating these men. The dangerous part is that so many people will think that this show is handling the problem, when in fact, it is very likely teaching would be pedophiles to hunt smarter.

Also, it’s pretty sick or petty or I don’t know...just really wrong that the cops hiding out back watch the entire exchange take place and when the sick slob is walking down the drive, they move in like gang buster SWAT teams. Nice.
Cops as actors. Everybody needs their 15 minutes of fame.

There is another thread here today about the fall of the Roman Empire. One of the top reasons was the ever growing need for the Gladiator type sports. That’s what this sick program is about, and in the Netherlands, there will be a new “reality” game show where a dying woman’s kidneys are the prize. All of it is just wrong and bad and lessens the importance of the issues.

[leadpenny]

“nauseatingly smug host Chris Hansen”

I stopped reading right there.

This gal may have a case but Hansen and NBC have done a service to the country. I hope they keep exposing the perps.

When they first started the series, the police departments were not involved. I suspect when police are notified of the sting going down, they want part of the action.

[TexasCajun]

I'm actually curious at to what kind of person would actually go to a strangers house, take is clothes off in the garage and walk naked into a home where a minor was supposedly home alone.

I don't care if it is sensationalism spurred on by the producers.

This predator needs the his family, friends, coworkers, community and the world to see him as the dangerous pervert he is.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Wonder when NBC is going to announce they will spend a few days in rehab?

[SlapHappyPappy]

Actually, from what I have heard, many of these same tactics are used in non-telivized stings because it helps prove intent.

[robertpaulsen]

The purpose of the law is to prevent/punish the corruption of minors. I understand that. I agree with that. If an adult corrupts a minor, he/she should be locked up.

But these guys aren't doing that. No minor is corrupted. What, actually, did they do?

[windcliff]

ping

[CAWats]

The setup usually involves the targets' exposure and humiliation on camera by nauseatingly smug host Chris Hansen.

No bias reporting here.

[CAWats]

...lure targets into the sting..

This is an absolute lie! No one goes online and says "Im 12 years-old. Wanna have sex with me?"

[Lazamataz]

To Catch a Predator

I've got one in the basement.