6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :- It's not as good as other shows!, 20 January 2008
Author:
Sylvia Marciniak (sylviastel@aol.com) from United States
Lately, Dateline has become a poor copy of 20/20, Sixty Minutes, and 48
Hours with hours spent on covering crime such as murders and scams.
Much like A&E's American Justice, Investigative Reports, and other
series. Dateline covering the Suitcase Murders was kind of inferior to
other shows that focused on the same crime. There is plenty of true
crime out there but you should pick and choose one that will engage the
audience and expand on understanding it. They aired the Suitcase
Murders after the verdict and before sentencing Melanie McGuire to life
in prison for murdering and dismembering her husband, William McGuire.
Even though there was no evidence connecting her to the crime but
circumstantial coincidences. THe fact that Court TV was airing the
trial made it easier for NBC Dateline to obtain access to the
proceedings.
6 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :- "To Catch a Predator", All the Characters in a nutshell, 7 July 2008
Author:
jrm23july@aol.com from New Jersey
The "Predator"- A helpless child of the past, who never could
interrelate to people, and did not take significant strides through
adolescence. Now in the prime of his manhood, he is trying to master
adolescence when the world around him tells him he is too late.
The Watchdog Group "Perverted Justice"- Helpless children of the past,
who don't understand what a real day of hard work is really like and
"want their cake and also eat it." They want to be helpless children,
but also police officers. Society does not permit people to do this
except possibly places like Bellvue. So Dateline NBC seeing a ratings
smash decides to use "Perverted Justice" as their pawns to knock the
enemy pawns, the "predators" off the board, to allow the knights
(police and state superior courts) maneuverability to checkmate the
queens, (the real men who only are interested in kids). They try to
scam the viewer into believing that stupid adult children who can't do
anything constructive and are feebly trying to break out of their shell
are dangerous pedophiles.
The police who arrest the adult children oh "Predators" have already
mastered the horny adolescent stage, have survived the military & have
structured themselves to take discipline from commanding officers who
pay their salary with taxpayer money. The stupid adult children oh
"predators" have only understood structure from mommy and the public
school system who manipulate mommy into authoritarian parenting such as
send warning notices to mommy for her little angel not passing mid-term
exams with important questions like, "In Rowling's "Lord of the Flies"
was it Ralph or Piggy that was running in the buff trying to escape
from the savage boys, and why was Simon so mean to pummel Piggy for not
helping him and the other boys gather sustenance?" "In Salinger's
"Catcher in the Rye" why did the hooker cut Holden Caufield some slack
and only take a stipend of his balance for services rendered? and why
was Holden paranoid that the male teacher kissing him maybe gay?"
21 out of 44 people found the following comment useful :- This Program Is Awful, 13 January 2007
Author:
richard.fuller1
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Dreadful excuse for a so-called news program.
National Enquirer on TV.
Aside from absolutely exploitive, tasteless topics involving entrapped
pedophiles to the guy who makes the Girls Gone Wild videos, we are
presented these programs in the most brain-dead manner possible, as
told by Keith Morrison.
"Sissy came from a wonderful background. Loving parents. Great at
school. A cheerleader. Her football player boyfriend. Everything seemed
okay. Or was it?" We then get snippets from these people.
"So what could possibly be wrong with Sissy? Nothing to hear her
friends tell about it. But others knew something else." This will be
about twenty-five minutes into the program.
Everything covered by this program is dragged out to virtual
mind-numbing deadness to fill its timeslot.
When the program is over, the viewer's own mind can sum up faster what
they have looked at for an hour.
"Sissy was dating a drug-dealer behind her boyfriend's back. Her
parents didn't know either." Why can't Morrison sum it up this fast?
NBC could be showing Friday Night Lights or The Book of Daniel in this
timeslot, but do they do this? Noooooo, we are treated to Morrison's
horrendous deliveries.
This is when we learn how truly valuable can be a remote control.
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6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-

It's not as good as other shows!, 20 January 2008
Author: Sylvia Marciniak (sylviastel@aol.com) from United States
Lately, Dateline has become a poor copy of 20/20, Sixty Minutes, and 48 Hours with hours spent on covering crime such as murders and scams. Much like A&E's American Justice, Investigative Reports, and other series. Dateline covering the Suitcase Murders was kind of inferior to other shows that focused on the same crime. There is plenty of true crime out there but you should pick and choose one that will engage the audience and expand on understanding it. They aired the Suitcase Murders after the verdict and before sentencing Melanie McGuire to life in prison for murdering and dismembering her husband, William McGuire. Even though there was no evidence connecting her to the crime but circumstantial coincidences. THe fact that Court TV was airing the trial made it easier for NBC Dateline to obtain access to the proceedings.
6 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-

"To Catch a Predator", All the Characters in a nutshell, 7 July 2008
Author: jrm23july@aol.com from New Jersey
The "Predator"- A helpless child of the past, who never could interrelate to people, and did not take significant strides through adolescence. Now in the prime of his manhood, he is trying to master adolescence when the world around him tells him he is too late.
The Watchdog Group "Perverted Justice"- Helpless children of the past, who don't understand what a real day of hard work is really like and "want their cake and also eat it." They want to be helpless children, but also police officers. Society does not permit people to do this except possibly places like Bellvue. So Dateline NBC seeing a ratings smash decides to use "Perverted Justice" as their pawns to knock the enemy pawns, the "predators" off the board, to allow the knights (police and state superior courts) maneuverability to checkmate the queens, (the real men who only are interested in kids). They try to scam the viewer into believing that stupid adult children who can't do anything constructive and are feebly trying to break out of their shell are dangerous pedophiles.
The police who arrest the adult children oh "Predators" have already mastered the horny adolescent stage, have survived the military & have structured themselves to take discipline from commanding officers who pay their salary with taxpayer money. The stupid adult children oh "predators" have only understood structure from mommy and the public school system who manipulate mommy into authoritarian parenting such as send warning notices to mommy for her little angel not passing mid-term exams with important questions like, "In Rowling's "Lord of the Flies" was it Ralph or Piggy that was running in the buff trying to escape from the savage boys, and why was Simon so mean to pummel Piggy for not helping him and the other boys gather sustenance?" "In Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" why did the hooker cut Holden Caufield some slack and only take a stipend of his balance for services rendered? and why was Holden paranoid that the male teacher kissing him maybe gay?"
21 out of 44 people found the following comment useful :-

This Program Is Awful, 13 January 2007
Author: richard.fuller1
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Dreadful excuse for a so-called news program.
National Enquirer on TV.
Aside from absolutely exploitive, tasteless topics involving entrapped pedophiles to the guy who makes the Girls Gone Wild videos, we are presented these programs in the most brain-dead manner possible, as told by Keith Morrison.
"Sissy came from a wonderful background. Loving parents. Great at school. A cheerleader. Her football player boyfriend. Everything seemed okay. Or was it?" We then get snippets from these people.
"So what could possibly be wrong with Sissy? Nothing to hear her friends tell about it. But others knew something else." This will be about twenty-five minutes into the program.
Everything covered by this program is dragged out to virtual mind-numbing deadness to fill its timeslot.
When the program is over, the viewer's own mind can sum up faster what they have looked at for an hour.
"Sissy was dating a drug-dealer behind her boyfriend's back. Her parents didn't know either." Why can't Morrison sum it up this fast? NBC could be showing Friday Night Lights or The Book of Daniel in this timeslot, but do they do this? Noooooo, we are treated to Morrison's horrendous deliveries.
This is when we learn how truly valuable can be a remote control.
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