In 2006, Geraldo Rivera exposed Professor Michael Tracey's lies about "Intruder."

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I was stunned when I saw they used Professor Michael Tracey as a source in the Netflix documentary.
Back in 2006, we exposed Tracey as a liar. Check out Geraldo Rivera's video below.
In the last episode of the documentary, it was left hanging that maybe, just maybe, John Mark Karr was a viable suspect—all thanks to Michael Tracey.
Journalist Carol McKinley with the Denver Gazette was on our livestream and told us that John Mark Karr was in another state the night JonBenet was killed. Here is our interview with Carol.
Let's review. We proved Michael Tracey blatantly lied about another so-called suspect and, according to a respected journalist, John Mark Karr, wasn't in the state the night of JBR's murder.
Yet, director Joe Berlinger used Michael Tracey as a source. Go figure.
 
Netflix has bungled greatly with one-sided “documentaries” on true crime. What they have done with the JBR case is so disappointing, it makes one lose any trust that a “documentary” is anything more than an attention grabbing, sensationalistic take on the more outrageous side of a criminal case - that the police and LE have victimized the victims. After all, why present what has already been covered endlessly in the media - suspicion of the parents? Plus how do you get JR to cooperate with anything that objectively weighs in on uncomfortable truths, such as the number of handwriting experts who have identified PR as the author of the RN? Why fact check some of the things JR said in the documentary that are simply untrue?

If you watch another Netflix “documentary”, “Take Care of Maya” which covers the case of Maya Kowalski, you would come away with one view of medical professionals committing “medical kidnapping” and victimizing a poor child suffering from a rare disease. However, if you tune in to season 3 of the podcast “Nobody Should Believe Me”, you get the other side of the story as the host, Andrea Dunlop, covers in great detail the facts of this case. Andrea has personal experience of Munchausen by Proxy within her own family, and has become an expert on the topic. She’s on the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s Munchausen by Proxy Committee and is the founder of Munchausen Support.
Netflix doesn’t care, and doesn’t let facts get in the way of a “documentary” that rules people up with outrage over alleged mistreatment of “victims”. Sad that we need to fact check Netflix so-called documentaries.

There was another bad one (maybe Peacock?) on Casey Anthony, and boy did it make her look sympathetic! I had to go revisit the case to make sure I was t nuts.

Journalistic integrity is dead.
IMO
 
Slebby,
I watched the documentary Take Care of Maya and was appalled. Now, I will listen to your recommended podcast to get the other side.
Naively, I assumed it was just the Joe Berlinger documentary on JBR that was the exception, mainly because it was so blatantly one-sided and full of easily checked-out misinformation.
Thank you, Slebby
 
Netflix has bungled greatly with one-sided “documentaries” on true crime. What they have done with the JBR case is so disappointing, it makes one lose any trust that a “documentary” is anything more than an attention grabbing, sensationalistic take on the more outrageous side of a criminal case - that the police and LE have victimized the victims. After all, why present what has already been covered endlessly in the media - suspicion of the parents? Plus how do you get JR to cooperate with anything that objectively weighs in on uncomfortable truths, such as the number of handwriting experts who have identified PR as the author of the RN? Why fact check some of the things JR said in the documentary that are simply untrue?

If you watch another Netflix “documentary”, “Take Care of Maya” which covers the case of Maya Kowalski, you would come away with one view of medical professionals committing “medical kidnapping” and victimizing a poor child suffering from a rare disease. However, if you tune in to season 3 of the podcast “Nobody Should Believe Me”, you get the other side of the story as the host, Andrea Dunlop, covers in great detail the facts of this case. Andrea has personal experience of Munchausen by Proxy within her own family, and has become an expert on the topic. She’s on the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s Munchausen by Proxy Committee and is the founder of Munchausen Support.
Netflix doesn’t care, and doesn’t let facts get in the way of a “documentary” that rules people up with outrage over alleged mistreatment of “victims”. Sad that we need to fact check Netflix so-called documentaries.

There was another bad one (maybe Peacock?) on Casey Anthony, and boy did it make her look sympathetic! I had to go revisit the case to make sure I was t nuts.

Journalistic integrity is dead.
IMO
Disagree. Nobody could make Casey Anthony look sympathetic. Constantly saying things as fact that were long ago proven false, on top of the crying (that we never saw before she was acquitted) and trying to paint herself as a victim, just made her look like a psychopath. (It's too bad the prosecution did such a lousy job... And her mom lied to cover her 🤬🤬🤬 while she was calling her father a child molester.)

Netflix has put out some good ones, and a some that have been willfully deceptive. JBR is just one. The Son of Sam doc I couldn't even finish because it was it was just implausible nonsense. The worst, though, was definitely Making a Murderer. I wasn't sold on everything they suggested the first time I saw it, but when I watched Convicting a Murderer I was shocked at the lengths they went to purposely misrepresent the evidence.
 
Netflix has bungled greatly with one-sided “documentaries” on true crime. What they have done with the JBR case is so disappointing, it makes one lose any trust that a “documentary” is anything more than an attention grabbing, sensationalistic take on the more outrageous side of a criminal case - that the police and LE have victimized the victims. After all, why present what has already been covered endlessly in the media - suspicion of the parents? Plus how do you get JR to cooperate with anything that objectively weighs in on uncomfortable truths, such as the number of handwriting experts who have identified PR as the author of the RN? Why fact check some of the things JR said in the documentary that are simply untrue?

If you watch another Netflix “documentary”, “Take Care of Maya” which covers the case of Maya Kowalski, you would come away with one view of medical professionals committing “medical kidnapping” and victimizing a poor child suffering from a rare disease. However, if you tune in to season 3 of the podcast “Nobody Should Believe Me”, you get the other side of the story as the host, Andrea Dunlop, covers in great detail the facts of this case. Andrea has personal experience of Munchausen by Proxy within her own family, and has become an expert on the topic. She’s on the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s Munchausen by Proxy Committee and is the founder of Munchausen Support.
Netflix doesn’t care, and doesn’t let facts get in the way of a “documentary” that rules people up with outrage over alleged mistreatment of “victims”. Sad that we need to fact check Netflix so-called documentaries.

There was another bad one (maybe Peacock?) on Casey Anthony, and boy did it make her look sympathetic! I had to go revisit the case to make sure I was t nuts.

Journalistic integrity is dead.
IMO




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Netflix really dropped the ball with these so-called "documentaries." The JBR case coverage was so one-sided it’s hard to take seriously. Same with Take Care of Maya—it paints a dramatic picture but ignores key facts. Compare it to Nobody Should Believe Me, and you see how much Netflix twists things for views. And don’t get me started on that Casey Anthony doc—made her look way too sympathetic. Feels like journalistic integrity is out the window.
 
Netflix really dropped the ball with these so-called "documentaries." The JBR case coverage was so one-sided it’s hard to take seriously. Same with Take Care of Maya—it paints a dramatic picture but ignores key facts. Compare it to Nobody Should Believe Me, and you see how much Netflix twists things for views. And don’t get me started on that Casey Anthony doc—made her look way too sympathetic. Feels like journalistic integrity is out the window.
I thought it was good to let the world see what a psychopath she is. Then again I didn't think it actually did make her look sympathetic.
 
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