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The man behind the scenes is Jonathan Wells, who is no family man himself. Estranged from his children and divorced from his wife, Mr. Wells pours through footage of children on playgrounds, in schools and on campuses late at night in his Fox studio (doing who knows what) making sure that he picks the most innocent picture of YOUR child to really get the sensationism out there. They block out the faces but he still has the footage of your child.(Shudder)
He sometimes takes credit for catching predators, when he actually just reports on catches made by others. In other cases, he runs stories on people who may or may not have actually done what they are accused of, but who typically did the best they could in court and try to pick up the pieces of their lives. The worst thing that you can do to someone like that is to throw them into an expose as you further damage their connections with family and community, isolating them into psychologically detached situations where problems are more likely to occur. Take for example NBCs to Catch A Predator, which finally went too far when a director pushed the police to invade a mans home who may have just been trying to trap online predators themselves. The man killed himself and had never ever been ultimately found to have harmed a single child. Its a fascinating story and a terrifying example of how toxic media greed can become. Check out the Esquire article on this:
http://www.esquire.com/features/predator0907
What NBC did not publicize is the fact that rulings were overturned because police did not actually follow legal process. They just stormed the people who NBC pointed to as they came out of the house. That show failed on every front except to attract viewers.
The front man for Fox 25 Undercover is Mike Beaudet, a hick from W. Mass who may have overcome a speech impediment but relied on being very tall and bold and now is the face of Fox Undercover, but Jon Wells is the brains behind the operation and Mr. Wells has no history whatsoever of having taken care of children well. Why would this divorced failed father be so interested in predators? Whats that expression: It takes one....
I am involved with a group of concerned parents who are done with television exposes on predators, especially these particularly transparent ones by Fox Undercover, and have made a decision to stop watching them AND to do everything that we can to boycott their sponsors. We love some of the Fox shows so we'll watch those. We aren't out to hurt Fox or anyone else. We believe that information about good parenting and educating our children to protect them is the right measure. We certainly abhor any action of violence against a child - that goes without even saying. We do not need to see someone who might (or might not) have made a mistake, dragged through the news again and again, just so that Fox can bump their Neilsen ratings and reel in terrified young parents. Knowing about one person (unless that person is truly an uncaught chain predator), will not really help widespread problems in our society.
Also, as a side note, Fox is often critized for being biased towards the right. Parents may argue that but should be more concerned about Fox's willingness to continually lie, twist and distort the news. http://www.outfoxed.org/ This network is not a source of truth. They are entertainment, and that entertainment needs to stop happening at the expense of individuals who might have made a mistake, at families, friends, communities and the children themselves that Fox Undercover feigns protecting.
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