August 10, 2006

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    -an essay response to an article. 


    Dear Mr. Tristam,


    How refreshing to read your essay on "tabloid television" and the networks' pandering points on sexual predators and their devastating detention of America's tweens.  I find it hard to watch, and have blogged on occasion similarly.

     

    Sensationalism is nothing new for American broadcasters, but this level of irresponsible coverage is outlandish.  NBC's Chris Hanson is, at least in my view, unqualified for the job he claims to be doing, with no meaningful purpose for doing it...other than pay i suppose.  Integrity be damned I'm certain, but exposing innocent-until-proven-guilty men to a national (global?) audience through baiting techniques is best left to the roguish CIA (or at least Hunter's Det. Sgt. Dee Dee McCall).

     

    So, thank you for your word on the matter.  If not for the internet, I wouldn't have read your piece, but what matters is that I did (from a FOX News link no less).  I am forwarding the link to several friends as well.  I believe it is important to get a full perspective in a sea of perverted prejudice.  I'll close with a quote from one of my heroes, Gore Vidal.  Thank you again and keep up the excellent work Mr. Tristam.

     

    "The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."

     

    Sincerely,

     

    Dick Carter

     

    -article citation

    Pierre Tristam.  June 27, 2006.  Bait a predator 'To Catch a Voyeur.'  Daytona Beach News Journal.  Retrieved August 10, 2006 from http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Columnists/Essays/colESSAY062706.htm