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An "electronic Titanic"--as Howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times called it---"an unprecedented disaster in the annals of network news, and perhaps the biggest TV scam since the Quiz Scandals." To many, NBC's Dateline fiasco seemed a freak, a bizarre departure from accepted network standards. Would any half-awake news organization have helped stage a crash test that was rigged to get a particular outcome? Or concealed from the public key elements--the hidden rockets, the over-filled tank, the loose gas cap? Or entrusted its judgment to axe-grinding "experts" who were deeply involved in litigating against the expose's target? Or, after questions...

The South Pacific Nation of Somoa is moving the International Dateline from west of their country to east as of their local midnight. Friday, December 30 2011, will not occur in that country.

Dateline did an expose tonight on southern Ohio poverty

See the warning the N.Y. lottery issued These were dispensed during Dateline's probe into shady clerk practice

TRANSCRIPT By Keith Morrison Correspondent NBC News updated 9:09 p.m. CT, Mon., June. 11, 2007 This report aired on Dateline Monday, June 11 HOMER, ALASKA - It was the question that wouldn’t go away. The question that haunts many people even now. Lary Kuhns: People would ask, ‘Hey, whatever happened to that case with the lady on the cliff?’ Her name was Wanda — “the lady on the cliff.” Jay Darling: Everybody asked what happened. And everybody seemed to scratch their head when I said, ‘I don’t know’. Farrah Tittle: I dreamed about Wanda every single night. And in several...

NOTE: if any of you have a few moments, please send a message to Hillary asking her to help solve the crime. Before the election, millions of young airhead women need to know about the real record of Bill and Hillary. ===================================================================== Full Transcript of NBC Dateline report on Juanita Broaddrick She became known as Jane Doe Number 5. Her story was well known to independent counsel Ken Starr, to House impeachment managers, to Washington insiders and Capitol Hill reporters. A month ago, she gave an interview to NBC News correspondent Lisa Myers. Since then NBC News has been carefully...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A former "Dateline NBC" correspondent claims that in the aftermath of September 11, the network diverted him from reporting on al Qaeda and instead wanted him to ride along with the country's "forgotten heroes," firefighters. John Hockenberry, who was laid off from "Dateline" in early 2005, wrote in this month's Technology Review that on the Sunday after the September 2001 attacks he was pitching stories on the origins of al Qaeda and Islamic fundamentalism. He claimed that then-NBC programming chief Jeff Zucker, who came into a meeting Hockenberry was having with "Dateline" executive producer David...

DON"T these guys watch TV? Guess not, because NBC News' "Dateline" is back in the kiddie perv business this week with a new episode of its disturbing cyber-sex sting series, "To Catch a Predator." This Friday's will be the first new episode to be filmed since a Texas county district attorney dropped all charges against 24 men caught on the show during a 2006 taping. But the show has an undeniable appeal among viewers.

NBC announced its first quarter 2008 schedule yesterday, and noticeably absent was any mention of Dateline. An episode is scheduled to air this Wednesday, but there are no plans for broadcasts beyond that date. Dateline's last hour of programming aired September 10. It was thought that because of the WGA strike affecting scripted programming, Dateline would ramp up production. Matea Gold of The Los Angeles Times reported last month, "Dateline staffers were instructed to be ready to produce as many as three hours a week after the new year. The show, which has long served as a fill-in for NBC,...

There is a Chris Hansen Pervo Marathon going on right now on MSNBC. Watching the pervs get busted is a guilty pleasure. My fave pervo bust is coming up in a minute: the rabbi who went berserk when busted.

In a story of betrayal worthy of an episode of Dateline NBC, undercover producer Michelle Madigan was exposed and forced out of the conference on Friday Dateline NBC Producer Michelle Madigan was publicly outed at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas Friday after show organizers were tipped off that she was trying to film show attendees with a hidden camera. ... Madigan ran from the show after organizers publicly threatened to escort her from the event at the beginning of a 4 p.m. conference session by noted hacker HD Moore. "She literally kicked the door open," said "Priest," a...

FOLLOW-UP AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: SPECTOR JUDGE SLAMS ERS NEWS - THANKS YOUR HONOR! Listen to the Judge Larry Fidler’s comments from the bench last Wednesday (4/25/07) just prior to the murder trial of famed record producer Phil Spector getting underway.

If I didn’t already know most television producers and on air news personalities were in desperate need of psychological counseling, tonight’s schizophrenic behavior by Dateline NBC would have convinced me. Let me explain. A couple of months ago, reporter Chris Hansen and the crackerjack producers at Dateline NBC were brainstorming a story and they came up with doozie. They had come to suspect the Internet, a growing thorn in the side of the mainstream media, might be harboring a darker side, one they could exploit, one they intended to expose. After what I am sure were weeks of meetings and...

by Mark Finkelstein April 27, 2006 You can't say Angela Jolie doesn't think big - with your tax dollars. In an interview aired on this morning's Today show, Jolie advocated applying the No Child Left Behind Program . . . to every child in the world, courtesy the American taxpayer. Ann Curry, Today newsreader and NBC Dateline host, had interviewed Jolie during her recent trip to Africa to promote education. At one point, Curry made this somewhat surprising observation to the Hollywood star: "There is another very famous person who talks about education. And you sound a lot like her:...

Here's what now passes for "news gathering" at the NBC television network in the brave, and still relatively new, world of 24/7 electronic news broadcasting: Last weekend, a crew working for the NBC News magazine program "Dateline" showed up in Martinsville, Va. for the NASCAR stock car races. With the crew were some "Muslim-looking men" - whatever that means - as part of a "Dateline" effort to show how people in this country would react to "Muslims" in their midst. In a recent statement, NBC News said it was pursuing the issue because it was "intrigued by the results of...

Racing circuit was angered by crew visiting Martinsville track for story NBC tried to dispel rumors that it was investigating NASCAR for a segment on anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, saying the focus of the story will be a widespread look across the country. "Dateline is not planning a story about NASCAR," the network said in a release Thursday. "We are following up on a recent poll and other articles indicating an increase in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. ... The NASCAR race at Martinsville was a stop we have made in our research on this story, which...

NASCAR yesterday strongly objected to a planned series of news reports that targets race fans as potential sources of harassment of Muslim-Americans. As part of a broad story about American attitudes toward Islam, NBC newsmagazine "Dateline" is placing Muslim and Arab-American volunteers in a variety of public places, including NASCAR races, and filming their experiences in an attempt to record discrimination or harassment.

Michelle Malkin has a good "heads up" story today. Apparently, NBC is trying to manufacture and stage a news story. She obtained an email from NBC soliciting Muslim Males to participate in hidden camera happenings. Here is a copy of that email: Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:05:54 -0800 (PST) From: Subject: Looking for Muslim Males to participate in NBC Dateline Segment [Forwarded] Salam, I hope everyone is doing well. I have been talking with a producer of the NBC Dateline show and he is in the process of filming a piece on anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination in the USA....

Mugshots: 50 men were arrested after the latest installment of the "Dateline" report .... We want to warn you some of what you'll read is explicit. parents need to know what their kids can confront when they sit down at the computer. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - A month ago, Dateline launched its third investigation into a growing national epidemic—grown men trolling the Internet, many looking for sex with children. This time, to expose them, we set up multiple hidden cameras in a house in Southern California. A decoy coaxes the men in, but instead of finding a 12- or 13-year-old home...

Hank Hanegraff: I want to draw your attention to “Dateline NBC: The Birth of Jesus,” a special that ran this past Friday, almost a carbon-copy of Peter Jennings’ “The Search For Jesus.” In this particular special what’s called into question is the biblical account of the virgin birth, the idea that Jesus was actually born in Bethlehem , and they note that the Gospels are really contradictory in nature. So far from being complimentary, one with another, they’re contradictory. The one thing that they drive at over and over again is this idea that Luke is not a credible historian,...

Abrams asks why men looking for underage sex were allowed to walk free. TRANSCRIPT - During "Dateline NBC's" recent hidden camera investigation, 19 were caught going to a suburban home where they thought they'd be meeting with sexually available teens. Some made a run for it when they went into the kitchen and saw NBC's Chris Hansen waiting. One came into the house completely naked and sat down in the kitchen, where Hansen met him and kindly handed him a towel to cover himself up. A rabbi was so upset at being caught that he even seemingly went after Hansen....

Tom Brokaw has been one of the great TV journalists, a man of intelligence, diligence and wit.

NBC News edited out a comment by Sen. John Kerry about his military records not being public after including it in a previous version of an interview. A transcript of the version of the interview that appeared on "Dateline," however, does not include the reference to Kerry's records being secret. The senator's response to the question in the edited broadcast is: "That's great. More power. I don't know how they've done it."

<p>Many readers have written us, expressing outrage that when NBC's Dateline rebroadcast Tom Brokaw's interview with John Kerry, which was previously shown on MSNBC, Kerry's admission that not all of his military records have been released was edited out. Other bloggers are accusing NBC of covering up Kerry's admission that he has repeatedly lied about making all of his records public.</p>

NBC Nightly News is airing an interview with President Bush that Tom Brokaw did recently. Bush actually called "old brokjaw" a Monday Morning Quarterback when Brokaw asked him if he would do everything the same in regards to Iraq! Bush was awesome!!!! Will be airing more of the interview on Dateline... (Mom, I promise the tv was still on NBC from the Nascar race...I didn't deliberately watch NBC News)

...CBS has dismissed calls for an internal investigation into its reporting of the story, arguing that it was thoroughly reviewed before broadcast. "I'm confident in the process of vetting that got the story on air. When we say we continue to report the story you can be sure we're being conscientious in responding to these allegations," says CBS News President Andrew Heyward. CBS may offer further evidence in support of its story as early as today. The stakes are high for "60 Minutes," the undisputed gold standard in television news.... Its longtime producer, Don Hewitt, 81, has retired unenthusiastically, and...

NEW YORK -- A half-brother of Osama bin Laden said in a television interview he never thinks of whether to turn in the al-Qaida leader and questioned which court would try him. Asked hypothetically whether he would turn in the al-Qaeda leader, Yeslam Binladin replied: "What do you think? Would you turn in your brother? Or half brother? Tell me. I put the question back to you. You answer it." In the testy exchange broadcast Friday on the "Today" show, NBC's Matt Lauer responded by saying that someone accused of murdering thousands should have their day in court, to which...

I just got done watching the Dateline interview with George Bush and Tom Brokaw and I was impressed, even by my already high opinion of George Bush, on how well he did. What impressed me most was the fact he corrected Brokaw and in my opinion led the interview instead of being led himself. His answers were full of self-confidance I havent seen in him in awhile and his demeanor was of absolute control. My only grudge with Bush is the same one I have always had on his answers. Stop and think for a few seconds before answering, thoughtful...

Dateline NBC just now running an hour long special, asking "how did Jesus really die". Is anyone watching this? It's an outrageous "hit piece", portraying Jesus as nothing more than a controversial, politically motivated "Jewish preacher" trying to challenge the rule of the day. One "biblical scholar" actually just equated Jesus' statements about "tearing down this temple" to a Terrorist threat!! Apparently failing to stop Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" movie, the liberal elite are now trying to change the story itself. (Not that any outside of the far left will buy into the attempt). NBC (aka "the...

A Few Wrinkles in Shriver's Marriage to NBC NewsBy Jim RutenbergOctober 8, 2003 New York Times  http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/08/national/08SHRI.html?ex=1066190400&en=5281fed95d433bc2&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLEWASHINGTON, Oct. 7 — Maria Shriver, who has at times acted as a shock absorber for her husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his campaign for governor, plans to return to her job as a correspondent and occasional anchor at "Dateline NBC." But NBC News officials said on Tuesday that they had not decided what journalistic duties she would take on. And some people at NBC News and at other networks questioned whether Ms. Shriver's role as a disinterested journalist had been compromised, at least for...

So, as the title implies, did any Freepers out there see last night's Dateline special? I only caught a few segments of it, but from what I could see, it was very interesting on more than one level. For one thing, it documents rather clearly not only the extent to which the Saudis have been protecting terrorists, but further, and more importantly, the extent to which our own government has been whitewashing them. On one of the leads they were tracking, the reporter went to Saudi Arabia to interview a man who was on Washington's list as a financial supporter...