NBC's upcoming The Wanted series, in which suspected terrorists are tracked down and exposed by a team consisting of a former Green Beret, a former member of the Navy Seals, a former war-crimes prosecutor, and an NBC News producer, is generating heated controversy among veteran journalists, including some within NBC itself, the New York Times reported today (Tuesday). Like NBC's "To Catch a Predator" series, critics are raising a red flag over what appears to be the open collusion between journalists and government agents. In an interview with the Times, Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, asked, "Is this supposed to be journalism?" Jane E. Kirtley, professor of media ethics and law at the University of Minnesota, expressed her concern that Adam Ciralsky, the NBC News producer who appears on the series, seems to be working hand-in-hand with the government and thereby playing "into the hands of those who say that there is no such thing as independent journalism in the U.S., that everybody who's working abroad is working in concert with the U.S. government." The series is being syndicated internationally by ShineReveille, a company composed of NBC Entertainment Co-Chairman Ben Silverman's former company Reveille and Elisabeth Murdoch's group Shine.