Dateline host Chris Hansen lied to the public about NBC's "parallel investigation" with law enforcement in order to appear ethical.By paying Perverted Justice to troll and lure sting targets, NBC gives the organization incentive to lie to and trick their victims.(This may refer to an intricate plan of revenge by Xavier Von Erck on one of his former covolunteers see the Radar Online reference for more.)
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As paid contributors, Perverted Justice demonstrate a conflict of interest in their personal and professional lives.Bartel quotes Dateline Executive Producer David Corvo as saying, "We all know they're nuts." At first, they were viewed as "vigilante" later, they were viewed as "watchdog". NBC's view of Perverted Justice changed after they began paying the organization.Bartel as a producer was denied access to Perverted Justice volunteers, even though they were pivotal to the show's production.Perverted Justice was deputized as part of the sting, despite being "a shadowy organization with ill-defined purposes".The specific breaches mentioned by Bartel were:
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NBC claimed they fired her on 17 November 2006 as part of NBC's "TV 2.0" reorganization, but Bartel contends that the dismissal was due to her reaction to the extensive breaches of NBC's ethics code and journalistic ethical standards during Dateline production. On, former Dateline producer Marsha Bartel sued NBC for breach of her employment contract. Louis Conradt, a Democratic district attorney from Texas fell victim to Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator, a TV series documenting "sexual predator stings", after he committed suicide when a SWAT team entered his house, with Dateline cameras recording the action.
On June 1st, 2007, all twenty-four cases brought up during an episode set in Murphy, Texas were declined to be prosecuted by the Collin County prosecutor's office due to insufficient evidence (Dallas Morning News, 1 June 2007), but only after one suspect (a former assistant district attorney) had committed suicide (Associated Press, 6 November 2006). Perverted Justice is paid at least USD 100,000 per episode, as well as being promised a cut from future DVD releases. Perverted Justice and its leader Xavier Von Erck provide the vigilante operations and the actual luring of the show's sting victims. The segment, presented by Chris Hansen is wildly popular episodes featuring "Predator" segments are ranked 16 among NBC's 41 regularly broadcast shows in the 2005-2006 season. To Catch a Predator is a recurring segment on NBC's Dateline news show whose mission is to lure adult men into sexual chats with people posing as children, invite them to a house to meet the imaginary children, and then expose them on national television.