Nor is the Dateline I’m talking about the kind that breathlessly updates viewers on whatever high-profile case is currently splashed across CVS checkout lanes. Write us a message and if you want, send us a photo or video. So maybe in a roundabout way, Dateline works best as a sort of two-way sounding board. From there, a real-life case is presented though a series of talking head interviews, endlessly repeated still photos, the occasional family home video, and some on-location quasi-reenactments. No, the Dateline I’ve found myself drawn to over the last year or so is the kind that plumbs the depths of stories that rarely make headlines outside the cities they take place in. What is yellow journalism?
? I check the local rag here and there (it's a pretty terrible paper on the whole) mainly out of interest in how their downtown project is coming (or not) along and what's being done about the extremely rampant homlelessness.
Boring, Predictable? Amid the din of more sensational true-crime fodder, these people use Dateline as a public venue, a chance to vent, remember, memorialize, and reach out.
The dateline for video or audio must be the location where the events depicted actually occurred. Dateline is NBC’s signature newsmagazine, bringing viewers storytelling at its best. file
Simpson: What the Jury Never Heard, Inside the terror plot that 'rivaled 9/11', Submissions are reviewed by msnbc.com/TODAY.com and/or NBC News editorial and published or broadcasted at its discretion, Msnbc.com/TODAY.com and/or NBC News may contact me via e-mail or phone if my content is used or with questions about my submission, I agree to the terms of Msnbc.com/TODAY.com. Clearly, these contests were nothing more than cheap publicity stunts from a disreputable tabloid news magazine desperate to remain relevant, desperate to hook undiscriminating viewers who had nothing better to do, contests that were just as trashy and lurid as the dime-store “murder-of-the-week” stories it so often profiled…. 20/20 abc) is like a water mark, showing ownership (purchase) of that image? Watch the latest episodes of Dateline or get episode details on NBC.com. A December 13 episode titled “Unstoppable” may profile the murder of a woman who once appeared in two Def Leppard videos, but the story is hardly unique (the husband did it), and the hour ultimately focuses more on an “unstoppable” best friend who sets out to crack the case. Morrison, with a shock of white hair and an almost-but-not-quite-winking hard-boiled delivery (ripe for an SNL parody, of course), seems almost beside himself when shaking down overzealous prosecutors or chewing through voiceover copy like, “God knows there were accusations.