On Trail of War Criminals, NBC News Is Criticized

[groovedaddy]

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.

For more than a year, NBC has been investigating the possible perpetrators of human rights abuses in several countries, but the case of Leopold Munyakazi, a visiting professor of French at Goucher College in Towson, Md., is the only one that has become public.

In December, an NBC crew and a Rwandan prosecutor confronted Mr. Munyakazi with charges that he had participated in that country’s genocide in 1994.

Reached by telephone on Tuesday evening, Mr. Munyakazi vigorously denied the allegations.

“I have never participated in genocide. I saved a number of people,” said Mr. Munyakazi.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/business/media/11network.html?th&emc=th

[merh]

1. I'd support the show if they confront Bush & Cheney & Rumsfield

I'll support anyone that confronts them for their war crimes.

[navarth]

2. there ya go

When they start chasing our own war criminals, I'll be interested.

MSNBC does need to improve their programming. Other than KO, Rachel, Shuster...what have they got.

Well, I have been watching some tweety too.