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Dateline NBC, or
Dateline, is a
United States weekly television
newsmagazine broadcast by National Broadcasting Company similar to American Broadcasting Company's
20/20 or
CBS's
60 Minutes.
History
The show, which has aired since 1992 in television, is currently anchored by Ann Curry. Curry first co-anchored on June 24, 2005.
Stone Phillips and
Jane Pauley previously co-anchored. Tom Brokaw,
Matt Lauer, and
Brian Williams are among the
NBC News correspondents who occasionally file stories for the program. Contributing Anchors were
Bryant Gumbel left in 2000,
Maria Shriver who left the job soon after Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California in 2004.
Katie Couric was also a contributing anchor until 2006, when she left NBC News. The program first originated from NBC Studio 3K, using the same set the
NBC Nightly News was using at the time. When
The Today Show moved to its current sidewalk studio,
Dateline took over Studio 3B with a brand-new set.
Comparison with other news magazines
Much like other newsmagazines,
Dateline programming includes
investigative journalism, true crime, and human interest stories. Common segments feature
Dateline: Survivor, where a person talks about their near death experience and rescue;
Dateline Timeline, where a popular product, person, and music single are played and viewers are invited to guess what year it appeared in;
State of the Art, explaining how something was technically accomplished in a movie;
Consumer Alert, where common consumer complaints or issues, such as food safety, are investigated, and
Newsmakers, light interviews of major figures in politics, entertainment, and business, as well as regular people in the news. The Saturday night edition of Dateline features special emphasis on true crime stories programming, which has been named Dateline Saturday Night and includes the "To Catch a Predator" series.
NBC News specials also air under the
Dateline banner.
Controversies
Quixtar
In
2004, Dateline NBC aired a report, alleging that some high-level Quixtar IBOs make most of their money from selling motivational materials rather than Quixtar products. Dateline NBC report on Quixtar Quixtar declined to respond on camera, instead publishing an official Quixtar Response website. official Quixtar Response website in response to Dateline NBC Quixtar states on its response site that Dateline declined their request to link to the site. Another response page can be found at
General Motors
Dateline NBC aired an investigative report about General Motors Corporation pickup trucks allegedly exploding upon impact during accidents due to poor design of fuel tanks. Although there were fuel tank design problems with GM cars before, Dateline's film showed a sample of a low speed accident with the fuel tank exploding. In reality,
Dateline NBC producers had rigged the truck with remotely detonated explosives. The program did not disclose the fact that the accident was staged. GM investigators studied the film, and discovered that smoke actually came out of the fuel tank a split-second
before impact. GM subsequently filed an anti-defamation lawsuit against NBC after conducting an extensive investigation. On February 18, 1993 GM conducted a highly publicized (view broadcast in 1993 section of GM 1990s history) point-by-point rebuttal that lasted nearly two hours after announcing the lawsuit. The lawsuit was quickly settled by NBC, and Jane Pauley read an apology on the program.
The following
Dateline NBC producers were dismissed: Jeff Diamond, executive producer; David Rummel, senior producer; and Robert Read, producer of the report on the pickups. Michele Gillen, the reporter involved in the segment, was transferred to Miami station WTVJ. Michael G. Gartner, president of the news division, resigned under pressure.
Trapping story targets
Dateline NBC was perceived as quickly returning to business-as-usual in a
May 4,
1993 piece titled "Cataract Cowboys" in which
Brian Ross (journalist) claimed that doctors unnecessarily performed surgery on elderly patients. The controversy brought into question techniques used such as disregarding evidence that contradicts a story's claim and using planted accomplices to entrap targets of the story. NBC claimed vindication when Southeastern Eye Center dropped their lawsuit over the story.
St. Louis Helicopter Hijack Attempt
On August 11,
2004, two
Dateline NBC employees posing as terrorists entered St. Louis Downtown Airport and attempted to gain access to a helicopter and pilot. They attempted to pay for a flight using cash and presented out-of-state driver licenses. The airport personnel suspected foul play and contacted the
FBI and local authorities, who responded to the scene and detained the NBC crew. Searches of the NBC crew's rental car revealed an assortment of hijacking tools including box-cutters of the type used in the September 11, 2001 attacks and audio tapes of conversations with the airport employees. After being taken into custody, the NBC crew revealed their identities and told investigators that
Dateline NBC was planning a story highlighting failures in general aviation airport security and the threat posed by private aircraft as a vector for terrorist attack. The NBC crew were subsequently released with no charges filed against them.
Dateline NBC killed the story and it was never aired. It is very difficult to find any information on this incident outside of aviation news media. Aero-News Network article. Aero-News Network follow-up.
To Catch a Predator
The "To Catch a Predator" Dateline series hosted by
Chris Hansen has been accused of making news rather than reporting news, blurring the line between news organization and agency of law enforcement. "To Catch a Predator" has sought to effect the arrest of men who have conversations on the internet with law enforcement officials posing as teenagers under the age of consent, as the men attempt to meet the would-be "children" in person. In February 2007, a man who was featured on "To Catch a Predator" committed suicide when TV crews surrounded his home as police arrived to arrest him.
DEFCON
During the 15th
DEF CON hacker conference, Dateline producer Michelle Madigan failed to register as a reporter and used a hidden camera to covertly film attendees, apparently intending to catch hackers admitting to crimeshttp://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/media-mole-at-d.html. On four occasions, DEFCON staff asked her if she wanted to obtain press credentials, but she declined. On
August 3,
2007, DEFCON founder Jeff Moss publicly outed Madigan during the "Spot the Reporter" contest, and Madigan ran from the room with several attendees trailing her, taking pictures and video Youtube footage.
Dateline NBC Staff
ANCHOR
CORRESPONDENTS
- Victoria Corderi
- Chris Hansen
- Sara James
- Hoda Kotb
- John Larson
- Josh Mankiewicz
- Keith Morrison
- Dennis Murphy
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATORS/REPORTERS
FORMER CO-ANCHORS
International broadcasts
NBC affiliates are widely available in
Canada, and MSNBC and NBC News programming is shown for several hours a day on the 24 hour news network Orbit News in Europe and the Middle East. This includes
Dateline NBC and several other shows. It has also been screened on the
Seven Network in Australia.
External links
- Dateline NBC official web site
References
Dateline NBC: News stories about crime, celebrity and health- msnbc ...
[NBC News] Program information for the newsmagazine with transcripts and video clips from recent segments.
'To Catch a Predator'- msnbc.com
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