To Catch a Clue

Investigative journalism is when reporters deeply investigate a topic of interest, often involving crime, political corruption, or some other scandal.

Dateline NBC's series "To Catch a Predator" is a series that hunts down sexual predators and turns them over to the authorities. The series is led by Chris Hansen, who chats with the men who thought they were coming to meet some teenager they met online. The men are later excused from the meeting house and arrested by the police.

While the show has received a number of applauses it has also taken quite a bit of heat. Many accuse the series of creating news rather than reporting about it. It's also said that NBC is more focused on ratings.

One of the men that visited the house was a former district attorney who ended up taking his life. The man's sister blames the show for her brother's death. How can she blame Dateline for the loss of the man's life when he arrived at the house and pulled the trigger on himself?

It's amazing that the people used as bait on the series haven't been harmed, same goes for the crew. This should be the top priority and it probably is.

And now ABC's 20/20 is searching the closets of NBC hoping to find a few skeletons. So while Dateline tries to protect the youth of America, ABC will tell us how it wasn't fair that NBC came up with the series first. It's time for 20/20 to catch a clue.