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Dateline NBC: EntrapmentAgain?
By encinoman
Why people hate reporters: a Dateline NBC producer &;parachutes in&; to the DEFCON hacker&;s convention to attempt to entrap a hacker (any hacker) doing something (anything) illegal so the Feds in attendence can arrest them.
Why? So the &;people in Kansas&; as she so patronizingly describes her own audience can see what &;illegal stuff&; goes down at DEFCON via the ol&; hidden camera trick.
The reporter (Michelle Madigan, to name the guilty) reportedly declined four requests to register as press, and actually told a DEFCON staffer that she was going to the bathroom to get her hidden camera ready!
Unfortunately, all the coverage I&;ve seen of this horrendous example of &;gotcha&; journalism has been on technology blogs; Howie Kurtz , Editor and Publisher other media mavens don&;t often venture into the technology ghetto.
She&;s humiliated, (and apparently, according to this video, Dateline didn&;t even send any back-up to protect her, unlike their anti-predator campaign) but it won&;t stop NBC&;s Dateline, home of the &;online predator&; entrapment that led to a man&;s suicide (without benefit of trial or conviction) and flaming faked truck explosions.
This entry was posted on August 6, 2007 at 7:03 pm and is filed under Dateline-NBC, DEFCON, investigative-journalism, news-entrapment, public-relations-disaster.
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