You may have noticed that Dan Abrams was doing MSNBC double-duty as both the general manager and an on-air personality. Now he's becoming an on-air star fulltime again. Announcement after the jump …
From ABC today:
ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross explores the tactics used by Murphy, Texas police, the citizen watchdog group Perverted Justice and "Dateline" NBC during a sting designed to apprehend alleged sexual predators in Murphy, Texas for the popular series "To Catch a Predator."
"The police department, the professionals weren't in control of the entire operation," Collin County District Attorney John Roach tells Ross. "They weren't calling the shots. Somebody else was." He says his office warned the Murphy police not to participate, in advance, in writing, stating "[we're] in the law enforcement business, not show business." Ultimately Roach declined to prosecute any of the 23 men arrested in the "Dateline" operation, citing both jurisdictional issues and problems with how evidence was collected and the arrests were made. One man, an assistant district attorney, William Conradt Jr., committed suicide as the police stormed his home on a Sunday afternoon with NBC's cameras waiting outside. His sister is now suing NBC and Perverted Justice, saying they caused his death.
"The sting operation left a trail of destruction in the community of Murphy. It shattered lives. It shattered careers," says Walt Weiss, a former Murphy police detective who played a big role in the operation and who regrets the way it was handled. "I'm truly ashamed to have been part of that."
Murphy Police Chief Billy Myrick defends the operations and denies that his department ceded control to NBC or Perverted Justice. NBC News has defended its actions but declined repeated requests to have anyone appear on "20/20." Ross' three month investigation airs on "20/20's" season premiere, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
This has been expected, but NBC has made it official, starting on Sept. 10. The announcement, posted after the jump, notes that stations will carry the fourth hour either at 10 — leading out of the other three hours — or at 11, after an hour of station programming. In Cleveland, the plan is for the fourth hour at 11. …
Since I've mentioned control-freak behavior by celebrities and studios, I should also take note of this item about a control-freak reporter. (Acknowledgement: I saw it thanks to Jim Romensko's media site.) …
You would think that a member of the press would have accepted another organization's coverage. But you could also think that it as another demonstration of the entitlement some writers come to expect once they work for the New York Times.
Couple of new, related links on Romenesko, including one about the group that let Greenhouse get away with this, and this defense of Greenhouse. But I still think she was wrong.
A good story from CBS, via Jim Romenesko's site. …
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