I checked out the hour on Fred tonight. I have to say that I the pleasure of interviewing Fred two years ago when he announced that this special would be airing. Needless to say, we were all excited.
After waiting for two years, I have to say that my hope in the mainstream media has been further diminished. Despite his intentions to actually want to do some good, I watched as he was lambasted.
I watched him admit to being a con artist and why. These were facts that I was privvy to two years before and I watched as Dateline took this man apart. Fred and I have been in contact over these past two years and through the whole thing, we've waded through the entrapment called "To Catch A Predator" that went on and on ad nauseum to the point where I'd almost given up hope that Fred's story was going to air.
Then when it did, I found myself disappointed. His effort to even attempt a straight life aimed at helping others and his community have been damaged thanks largely to facts that were exaggerated to the point that the distortion was enough to make me grant him another interview this weekend.
It seems that the mainstream media has not worked again. Rather than giving an unbiased story, the story was slanted largely against Fred.
This weekend we at www.worldrockradio.com will let Fred have his say. All questions raised from that hour-long disappointment will be answered and we will give you what Dateline failed to do.
