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The show looks pretty fake to me...
The only time they had a towel ready was when a guy came in naked...
And look at the camera angles before the camera crew emerges...Sharp up-close pix of the host, etc.
Seriously, somebody would have kicked that self-righteous host idiot in the nuts by now if it was real. Instead everyone is all passive and remorseful.
It all looks staged to me.
It would be funny if another investigative journalist/show investigated this phony Dateline show, and proved that it was staged/contrived.
I mean seriously - it comes across as sensationalized lascvious crap. If Dateline really wanted to help parents protect their kids, they would give them concrete info how to do so in each episode instead of pandering to the public's voyeurism, and trying to make themselves look like crusaders.
Oh yeah, they say at the end, if you want more info how you can protect your kids, check out our website. But the show itself never gives much info about how to protect kids - just about how to be a vigilante and entrap others (not to mention that it might actually encourage predators in a twisted way, or make impressionable teens curious to check out chat rooms).
As I understand it, the Police can, and do, arrest people without setting up such elaborate and costly stings (both in terms of technology and manpower costs).
How many actual stories have you heard about online predators compared to how this show makes it sound are out there? I wouldn't let a kid near a computer the way Dateline presents the internet.
I'm sure internet predators exist, and they should be prosecuted, but setting up and entrapping people, if that is even really happening, and then making a maudlin spectacle of it is pretty depraved in itself.
What's next? Go after all internet porn because some kids chose to view it despite the warnings and filters that many of us put in place?
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