Neal Shapiro Is “Disturbed” By Media Of Missing Persons

For Josh Mankiewicz‘s Dateline piece about missing person’s cases, he interviewed his boss, Neal Shapiro. Now, to complete the circle, Shapiro has blogged about the interview on MSNBC.com:

The interviewer just wasn’t any reporter: Josh Mankiewicz is somebody I hired, somebody who is a good friend, and I think he was pretty nervous about the interview too. That said, he never told me what the questions were in advance. I went to the interview only having a general idea what the subject was going to be. I thought Josh’s questions were tough, but they were fair.

Shapiro says he “truly was disturbed” by the details and statistics Mankiewicz shared: “Afterwards, I talked to the assignment desk, I talked to my executive producers and told them that we have to do better.” Here’s the full blog entry…