"Dateline" Desperately Needs Balance

NBC could use some education on the topic of sexual predation. Take a look at Dateline's main page and see how they are dealing with the issue of Internet predators. In case anyone has been following this series, they are catching men who make illicit contact with supposed underage girls for sexual encounters, and then when they show up, they are getting interviewed by Dateline and then arrested by local police. This is a good thing and NBC should be commended for having the courage to go this far in addressing this sort of problem. Where NBC is failing is in how they are not reporting in a balanced fashion. Next week's episode promises to review the Mary Kay Letourneau case and all but makes it out to be a matter of love-denied-by-evil-society. The reality contrasts sharply with the perception.

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