The following article, from the NY Times today, discusses an upcoming NBC program that seeks to hunt down war criminals in the US. Contraversy exists regarding the ethicality of the lead journalist and the program is currently being criticized by leading human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch. Interesting article...read below:
On Trail of War Criminals, NBC News Is Criticized
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: February 10, 2009
NBC News, which teamed up with local police officers to trap sex offenders for its successful but scandalous “To Catch a Predator” series, is now using similar tactics to hunt bigger game: war criminals.
But one of the first efforts, an investigation of a Maryland college professor on genocide charges, is already attracting criticism from federal officials months before the program would be broadcast.
.... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/business/media/11network.html?hp
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