Is Chris Hansen a Pedophile?

Now that I think about it... Imagine a clone of Chris Hansen telling Chris Hansen to take a seat. :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... They would never suspect the dude who catches pedophiles to be a pedophile.

Chris Hansen doesn't need to be a pedophile for your desire for him to be a hypocrite to be realized. Mass media in general, and Hansen is a sychophantic employee of that industry, wants to peddle fear and insinuation because that raises television ratings. The entire goal of broadcasting is to have high ratings.

When there were a couple of networks with publicly guarded airwaves, there was a genuine public service provided by the news/editorial departments of TV networks. Today, it's a free-for-all grab for attention. Hansen's show exploits the terror created by a mental disorder known as pedophilia.

A balanced view of the disorder is linked to below. Pedophilia is not a crime, as the Mayo Clinic description points out. It is a mental disorder.

So Hansen's show exploits also people who are mentally ill because the producers of the show and the executives know that the fear of something bad happening to a child is a powerful magnet for viewers. People like to be scared. People like to be prepared to protect their children.

People like the pseudo-pornographic tension of the Catch A Predator show. There's all kinds of aspects to that show that sell. And 99 percent of them are just wrong.

The issue, if you look at the forest and not the trees, is child abuse. That's the news issue. In the United States, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, child abuse is widespread.

More than 50 percent of the time, the child abuser is a female. More than 80 percent of the time, a pedophile or child molester (they're different now), is a parent. If you include direct bloodline relatives, this figure rises to more than 90 percent.

In other words, the crime of child abuse -- which includes all instances of pedophilia -- is a family matter. Now think about what that means. Networks do not want to alienate their audience, and they risk doing that if they focus on the larger issue of child abuse.

But Hansen doesn't care one way or the other. As a journalist, he should. But he is a sychophant, that is, he exists to please his network bosses.

He only cares about ratings and his own public image. Professionals in the mental health industry will never be happy that losers like Hansen can exploit the mentally ill to have the money to buy a nice house, a nice car, send their kids to college and visit strips clubs or hookers. OK, the last comment was a cheap shot, but hey, Hansen's entire show is a cheap shot at truly sick individuals who need professional help.

If Hansen wanted to do crime journalism, he needs to focus on child abuse. It is often committed by people who are NOT mentally compromised. It is the crime that is most rampant in this nation.

Pedophilia and child predators are quite rare in comparison. Ironically, an even rarer occurence are pedophile priests in the Catholic Church. But this tiny minority of sick individuals is the primary focus of American mass media when it comes to doing hit pieces on religion.

Over a 50 year period, according to the John Jay School of Criminal Justice, CUNY, 4 percent of all Catholic priests were ACCUSED of any kind of child abuse, which includes pedophilia, molestation, rape, indecent exposure, etc. etc. etc. Yet to listen to mass media, you'd think it was 20 percent over a 1 year period or that all the priests accused were actually guilty (of course they focus on "cover-up," which is a myth because the Church itself brought all this to light in the first place). Interestingly, similar reporatage about sick ministers in smaller Christian faiths are almost never exposed as a insitutional problem. In Jewish sectors, the problem is back-page news.

Heaven forbid the appearance of bigotry be present in the liberal press by showing there are instances of child abuse in the Muslim world. No, the press seems to be drawn to completely prejudiced reporting about Catholic priests because it knows the Catholic Church will not bother to respond to such nonsense, and they know priests don't hit back. The real irony is that one of the higher incidences of child abuse, which includes all pedophilia, molestation and rape, is in the public school system, according to Shankshaft's study.

Again, that would kill off a huge audience if Chris Hansen showed up in the public school system. "Catch A Coach?" NBC would then marginalize a huge section of its dwindling audience: teachers, teacher unions (the political aspect) and academically involved parents.

Hansen is no journalist. He is PT Barnum. Don't wish him harm.

Wish him help and a conscience. Being angry or casting shame is not an answer. The Columbia Journalism Review in 2007 called the Catch A Predator show "Shame Game journalism."

It isn't journalism at all. It's a circus of depravity.

Very awesome! Especially if he was caught in an internet sting.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.