Shark Bytes

Spreading smears and lies about Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska and the first female candidate of the United States of America.

Are 13 year old girls online relly so stupid as to let a man into their home?are they?

And of course girls are sweet and pure; sex thoughts never cross their minds...wait a minute that would mean that Desperate... uh... slutty housewives,happy tree friends fangirls and...

Please investigate crooked judges.Children are living in homes and they don't want to be there. I can give you stories, several as a matter of fact if I can just get some one to lisen.Why does noboby care about our children anymore?Please contact me Please! Please! Does any one care?

I used to love this program but I think it has been hijacked by aliens these days! Keith Morrison looks like a skeleton and acts as if something really creepy is going on, even when it's not. When they began stretching the show to fit in 2 hours, the quality dropped. And some of the stories are just not that interesting. And, most of all, the way the latest episode was produced was just plain bad--all these still shots of the main character standing or sitting in a room and then fading out or disappearing; and then there were the shots of the scene moving along in freeze frames--I don't know how to describe it but it was just plain distracting. Why not just tell the story without overdramatizing every detail and repeating the whole thing after every commercial break? I miss the old Dateline that was an informational news magazine!

Dateline seems to have either retired the Predator series or (more likely) decided to put it on ice for awhile since it's been all over the news, and they'll let it cool down before starting it up again. Sure, it's always the same - guy walks into the house, girl says "Hey, there's cookies/sweet tea on the counter, help yourself, I have to go change/finish the laundry. Then here comes Chris, transcript in hand, and the pervert's jaw drops. "We weren't gonna do anything, just hang out and watch TV, I've never done anything like this before, I'm here to make sure she's okay since she's by herself..." (That last one is my favorite.) But it's entertaining TV and you have to love the oddballs like the guy who was busted and then a few weeks or so later was busted AGAIN. All he had to say was "Oops!" Don't drop the soap in the prison bathroom, buddy, you'll be saying a lot more than "oops". With summer coming up and kids being out of school and home alone, this'd be the perfect time to revive the Predator series again.

Stings like "To Catch a Predator" should be done in private because a lot of these perverts have wives and children, and they don't deserve to be humiliated as well! As usual, Dateline took a concept and ran it into the ground.

Apparently Dateline has given up on To Catch A Predator and is now focused on being a 48 Hours Mystery "we love stories about women murdered by their significant others or men they dated only once and he became obsessed" clone. Boo! Hiss! Boo! Hiss!

Dateline jumped the shark when Maria Shriver, Stone Phillips, Jane Pauley et al left. Before she was California's first lady, Maria did an excellent job reporting. Stone, Jane, Tom Brokaw and the other peeps also did well in terms of news reporting. When they left, it was pure shark fest.

Predator was entertaining at first, but it's gettin' old fast.

This is one of the best documentaries that I have ever seen. For repeat2x, I respectfully disagree with you. This show is an excellent way to let your children know what kind of sick people are on the internet. I personally hope it has a very long run.

How can anyone say this jumped because of catching online predators? That is the best thing going. In fact, if they had a Chris Hansen channel where all he did was catch predators all day, I would be all for this.

Yeah...uh...this message is to Jessie, the July 15 poster: I'm sure you've been arrested by now and are using your 45 minutes per day of internet access in the correctional facility for legal advice and getting your on-line law degree in preparation for your defense, and will likely never see this post. Despite that, I must say that Chris Hansen missed a hell of a story by not interviewing YOU.

Here's what I love about your post: On 90% of the To Catch a Preditor episodes, the males sitting on the bar stool talking to Chris Hansen are usually saying that they were there to "teach" the 13 y/o that the internet was dangerous. To show them "what could have happened".

Hey Jessie... Sound familiar? Hmmm. Been chatting up some 13 year olds lately? You are one glass of lemonade and a hot tub away from a visit by Senior Hansen and crew. Remember to lock your fingers behind your head when you go to your knees...

Jane Pauley leaving. Ever since the show has lost it's voice and direction. It's a mess now.

I thought the Dateline "To Catch A Predator" was an excellent concept, but when you tuned in a few days later, they're rebroadcasting it over and OVER AND OVER, well you get the picture. Why'd they do that? Did these people want to be sure they were embarrassed in front of as many people as possible?!? Or, perhaps the night their piece aired, they didn't have the VCR set up right? Any idea how many people's lives are getting affected by these shows? Man, makes you wonder.

Brian Ross and 20/20 did an investigation on the whole operation of To Catch A Predator. It looks like NBC is committing another exploding GM truck incident of years past.

It basically proved that Dateline is doing this for ENTERTAINMENT- rather than true awareness and law enforcement.

It revealed that NBC called most of the shots, instead of leeting the police dept do its work. Stuff like...

* NBC creating a potentially dangerous situation when you see predators walk out of the house to arresting police officers WITH guns drawn in all directions, as NBC dictates

* Chris Hansen NOT reading miranda rights to the predators once he starts talking to them

* In one case, one of Perverted Justice guys INITIATING a call (entrapment!) to a predator to get him to come over because the preadator decided to not come over, which led to bad things

Interesting stuff.