Posted on 06/02/2006 10:06:58 PM PDT by mort56
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 late night bull sessions, they hatched a brilliant plan. Why not pretend to be a very young and naïve woman and enter into online conversations on any number of chat rooms with the express purpose of finding out if older men might be interested in “hooking up”.
Surprise, surprise, these intrepid “journalists” actually found a group of men interested in having sex with teenaged women and willing to act on their fantasies when given encouragement. When these “gentlemen” traveled to a location one can only assume was given to them by Dateline NBC, Mr. Hansen with the assistance of local police were on hand to humiliate, film and arrest them for the prurient pleasure of Dateline's audience.
“To Catch a Predator” has been a ratings success on Dateline NBC and has spawned multiple installments.
Initially, I thought the show very good and that NBC was doing a service. I assumed NBC was truly interested in bringing the people who prey on children to justice. I had a few reservations about whether or not their sting operation bordered on entrapment, but I believed NBC’s motives were pure and the safety of children was their main concern.
After last night's edition of Dateline, I am not so sure.
Taking a break from evil male pedophiles lurking in the bushes or toting beer through kitchen doors, NBC decided to treated America to a love story. Can you guess who they chose for the heroine?
If you said a pedophile, you would be correct!
With fanfare, the network offered an exclusive interview with Mary Kay Letourneau and her once child lover and now husband, Vili Fualaau. The fact that Ms. Letourneau abandoned her husband and four children choosing instead to seduce Mr. Fualaau when he was her thirteen year old sixth grade student was of only passing concern to NBC’s reporter, Josh Mankiewicz. What truly seem to matter during this salute to love were answers to such probing questions as “who is more romantic”, “who gets up first in the morning” (double entendre implied) and “who hogs the covers”.
When the interview was over and everyone wished each other well, I turned my television set off and took a shower. I felt the need to feel clean again.
I could not believe that a major network would devote an hour of primetime to these pathetic people and their tawdry affair as if they were the second coming of Romeo and Juliet.
But then again, what did I expect?
The same people who produced this work are part of a profession that has taken great delight in chipping away at every moral foundation they believe to be passé. These are people who take pride in exalting an adjudicated perjurer but who go out of their way to excoriate a man of faith? They are part of a community which claims to support our troops who are in harm’s way while at the same time working diligently to undermine their mission for the political gain of their friends.
The fact “journalists” have little respect for ethics, honesty or common decency should come as no surprise to anyone. But I thought there was some hope. I believed America’s mainstream media couldn’t get any lower, couldn’t troll the depths of depravity any deeper.
Last night, Dateline NBC and Mr. Mankiewicz proved me wrong...yet again.
I don't watch TV.
Never have.
Thanks for filling me in on what I'm missing.
I wonder, does the increasing number of homosexuals working for these networks have anything to do with the murder of morals, the denegration of decency, the raunching of primetime? The degenerate mind cannot fathom reality beyond degeneracy.
Why yes, yes it does. You are correct sir!
>I wonder, does the increasing number of homosexuals working for these networks
TV has been gay dominated for 40 years!
What about the staffs of the NY TIMES and the Washington Post.
Revolting.
Remember it never aired, had Barbra Steisand's husband James Brolin in it?
The script consists continuously of two things:
1---Constant comments that Reagan is about to meet with BARRY GOLDWATER!
Apparently GOLDWATER equals the bogey man to the leftist writers.
2---Nancy Reagan clobbering her child and knocking her 20 feet across the room (at least every three pages of the "script.") .
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