'Dateline NBC,' premiered for NBC News in primetime in 1992. Since then, this multi-night franchise has included frequent specials, investigative reporting and uses its news anchors as more than just news-readers. With Stone Phillips and Ann Curry anchoring, the broadcast also features Tom… More Brokaw, Katie Couric and Maria Shriver, each of whom contributes to and anchors some of the editions. The flexibility of 'Dateline NBC' allows for both multipart features and full hour documentaries devoted to single subjects and reports. Dateline has delivered in-depth coverage of breaking news, including the funeral of Princess Diana, the national manhunt for Andrew Cunanan, the crash of TWA Flight 800, the Unabomber investigation, the Oklahoma City bombing, the O.J. Simpson trials, the Los Angeles earthquake and fires, and the latest floods, hurricanes and worldwide disasters.
Tough/impossible to watch when Keith Morrison is the host. Find his too-self-aware style grating, detracting from the story itself.
its been months since i heard anything about TCAP not even an offical cancelation. whats going on soo far? is there plans on bringing it back?
I'm surprised nobody has ever posted on this board yet. I guess all anybody cares about is pop culture crap. These internet predator investigations are more entertaining than any of those crap sitcoms out there these days, that's for sure.
This show jumped the shark when it desired to be like Maury Povich's "who's the father"-waste-of-a-time-slot. And on tonight's episode: to catch...an ipod predator. What?!! Wow, can you say "one hour product placement"? hide show
What can I say? This shows just sucks so bad ever since it started with its "to catch a predator" series format. It's bad enough there is a Dateline for every day of the week (including katilsday), but to stoop to a Maury povich level of lowest-common-denominator entertainment and then hide behind the Dateline name just to air on primetime is plain wrong. Honestly, who cares what goes through the mind of a pedophile? And why does anybody think this is "brilliant" television, let alone television that's even worth watching? And tonight's episode: catching people that steal ipods...Why? As much as I hate this show, I have an even lower opinion for those people who actually watch this crap. There should be a new show called "To Catch a Person Watching 'to catch a predator'" where people stupid enough to watch this show are caught live on camera, interrogated for 20 minutes as to why, and then subdued and cuffed with a shock collar that triggers every time they come within 20 feet of a Nielson's rating box.
this show infuriated me!!!!!!!no one stopped the guy from breaking into the cars because he was caucasian or close enough!!!in the hotel he was caucasian!!!!if he had been myself he would have never gotten away with any of it.TRUST ME!!!!!! hide show
i stay at the 4 seasons and rits-carlton hotels all the time.one day at each hotel during separate stays i could not get into my romm and try as i might the maid would not open the door!in one incident i promised to show her my passport as proof once i got into the room-to no avail!in another incident the maid saw me coming out of the room and the door close.at that momemt i realized i had left my room key inside.mind you,she saw me come out of the room.she would not let me back inside.whomever is reading this we both know why don't we.to set matters straight i am a very tolerant person.i believe we live in a great country but the truth is the truth.America still has deep rooted stigmas regardless of income levels.if you were to put someone as myself in those same segments we all know that the 911 system would have been flooded with calls.its just the way it is.better yet,let me try to snatch a little white child in broad daylight and see if i get away with it!we both know what would happen.i want you to know i am not making this a black/white issue.just stating the facts.nbc needs to cousult some of their black male producers before airing another show of this nature-better yet,put one of the black male producers in the segments.it was difficult for me to watch the ridiculousness of the car jacking scenes. GIMME A BREAK!!!!!!!!
Well this show makes the world a better place but that doesn't mean I like Dateline NBC. I find this show is so pathetic and highly illogical but you don't have to take my word for it. hide show
I like the story's that they are investigating and solving. I'm glad their scaring and arresting all the predators that are on the confounded internet. Police come in handy in these type of cases don't you agree?. I find the hosts to be doing a great job. The producers are doing a good job as well.
Dateline NBC has become to catching perverts what Maury Povich is the DNA paternity tests. hide show
I suppose part of the appeal of this show these days is watching guys lives implode on television for all to see.
Most people, me included, watch this show in total disbelief that guys could actually be this dumb. Even dumber are the one who have seen Dateline and then calmly say "I knew this was going to happen, I saw it on TV". To say these pervs are dumb as a bag of hammers is an insult to hammers. Tonight some guy who was married 3 weeks ago tried to deflower a 14 year old virgin. Unreal. A parade of teachers, computer professionals, ministers, fathers with young children and even cancer doctors completely trash their lives for the promise of perverted cheap thrill lasting maybe 15 minutes. They should do autopsys on all these nuts when they die to find out what makes these guys tick?
My only other question is why arent women shown? We know from the regular reports of teachers having affairs with young teens that they do it too. True, its mostly men who try and pick up teens online while women do it with teens they already know, but there have to be some out there.
To Catch a Predator is unbelievable!!! hide show
I can't believe these guys keep doing this. It is so embarrassing and unbelievably entertaining. :-) This is better then any Jerry Springer episode I've ever seen. These guys are completely exposed on National TV. It's a great service and I thought it would be enough to get people to stop but it's not. They continue to make shows based on this subject; even catching people that have seen the show before. I guess the bait is just too good to be true for these pervs. I think the scary part is that there has to be more guys out there that have seriously thought about meeting these girls but didn't show up.
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