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... executive director of Human Rights Watch, said in an interview on Tuesday that he had called the general counsel of NBC Universal to raise concerns about the project. "I was worried that a journalist was making false accusations, due to some extent to ... Predator" series was also predicated on confrontations and the element of surprise. The episodes attracted big audiences for the "Dateline NBC" newsmagazine as they worked with the police to expose people who had set up visits on the Internet with ...

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... earned by executive directors of nonprofit organizations in 2005 was less than $100,000. This is the first time that the extent of NBC's financial arrangement with the vigilante group has been made public. Radar reports that NBC declined to ... the group, has drawn much criticism, particularly with regard to a fatal sting operation that the group helped orchestrate for NBC in Murphy, Texas, last year -- a sting that resulted in the target of the investigation committing suicide in his house while ...

... ," which drew both ratings bonanzas and sharp critiques for its "To Catch a Predator" investigations. In the segments, which NBC began airing in 2004, the newsmagazine worked with an Internet watchdog group called Perverted Justice to contact men ... . Police waiting outside then arrested the men. Media ethicists objected to the deception used in the investigation, as well as NBC's close relationship with law enforcement agencies in the jurisdictions where it set up stings. NBC News executives ...

... national furor over Facebook's decision to allow groups promoting Holocaust Denial within its social networking borders, NBC was doing the exact same thing" within it's "Universal" media borders. It is being reported that NBC columnist and commentator ... subscriber and viewers numbers and subsequently advertising dollars. Money has a way of muting or magnifying corporate indignation. NBC's silence as well as Facebook's position on Holocaust Denial confirms a disturbing but all too common viewpoint ...

... According to NBC's complaint, Wolf takes the position that the parties agreed that the 2 season guarantee means that, should NBC terminate any of the Law & Order series, he is entitled to 2 years of producing fees, essentially as ... So NBC has its work cut out for it to convince the court to re-write the agreement to conform to its understanding. And NBC claims that the agreements themselves are confidential in deciding not to file the documents with its complaint. So while it's difficult to ...

A federal judge is allowing a $105 million wrongful death lawsuit against Dateline NBC: "To Catch a Predator" to proceed. The lawsuit, brought by Patricia Conradt, alleges that her brother, Dallas prosecutor Louis William Conradt ... suicide was foreseeable. Chin says that it was the responsibility of the police to prevent Louis from committing suicide and that they, along with NBC, were deliberately indifferent. Chin says that it was not necessary for a heavily armed swat team to take Louis from ...

... do we hear no condemnation of the vile person from the big media, but NBC is going to oblige the piece of human debris by airing his "manifesto." Democrat presidential ... appear on a Fox Network debate, citing bias, but I guess it's okay for NBC is going to realize Cho's dreams of celebrity status at the expense of 32 lives. ... have been a deranged psycho, but he was sharp as a scalpel when it came to playing NBC News for his personal patsy. Anything for a point in the ratings. I'm sure the families ...

... Dateline moved in to seize him at his home instead. According to the Chronicle article, NBC pays Perverted Justice for its work and also pays or reimburses cops who participate ... against 23 men who were caught in Dateline's snare in Texas. Concerns about NBC's tactics were raised in a lawsuit filed by one of Dateline's own ... first to bring up the subject of sex." Bartel's assertions about the relationship between NBC and law enforcement are more disturbing. Contrary to the network's claim of "parallel ...

... the rights to Lifetime Networks. Here's a copy of the complaint. In the suit, filed in New York State Supreme Court, NBC claims that it had a right of first refusal on the show, which was scheduled to launch its fifth cycle on Bravo this summer. Here are ... NBC had already turned down the same deal struck with Lifetime, a JV of Disney and Hearst. Filing the complaint on behalf of NBC: Gibson Dunn's Orin Snyder. Of course, an entertainment industry spat just wouldn't be proper without an anecdote ...