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Reviewing Nancy Grace

By TChris, Section Media
Posted on Sun Sep 17, 2006 at 11:01:00 PM EST
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Thousands of people would like to see Nancy Grace fired. It is not solely in response to this incident that people are starting to say what they think about Nancy Grace. The reviews aren't pretty.

From the executive editor of the Ocala Star-Banner:

Her insistence that the world is black and white - filled with saints and sinners, and nothing in between - is childish and irresponsible. And her condescending, holier-than-thou attitude makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. ... Big hair and a small mind just don't work for me.

Jay Homnick:

Last week's news is serious enough that she should lose her job and become yesterday's news. She has lost perspective of her role, segueing from crime news anchor and show host back into a prosecutorial fantasy. In the process, real people have been hurt in the real world. The show must not go on.

Andrew Cohen:

I'm surprised that violence hasn't surrounded her shtick already and more often. The combination of rage, revenge, accusation and innuendo that permeates her show and her television personality is precisely the sort of roiling, viscious, corrosive potion that leads people to think they are heroes when they are about to act as villians.

Cohen talks about the danger of exploiting crime to achieve ratings, a point echoed by C.W. Nevius:

[W]ith a crowded field of cable talk shows, from Fox to MSNBC to CNN to Court TV, it isn't easy to grab ratings unless you are the loudest and the most controversial. From JonBenet Ramsey to Scott Peterson, sensational crime stories draw viewers. The idea is to cover the crimes, particularly murders, exhaustively, but make it seem as if it is a kind of public service. That's why, CNN Headline News explained, it went ahead and aired the interview even after Duckett killed herself.

Marcel Berlins reminds us that trial by television is still going strong in the United States, "with sometimes tragic consequences." In the courtroom of television, Nancy Grace is chief judge and head executioner.

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    Reviewing Nancy Grace | 17 comments (17 topical)
    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 07:30:41 AM EST
    Nancy Grace shames even a shameless press

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 08:58:36 AM EST
    Nancy Grace brims with hate and rage always seeking a target. I have no doubt that there are innocent victims of that rage in Georgia prisons today. Each night she will now spin this case in only one way; to make the dead mother guilty in an attempt to "absolve" her own guilt. But Grace's guilt can not be absolved, because if the mother was in fact guilty, it can never be proven in court.

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 08:58:36 AM EST
    She presides over an electronic age lynch mob. At best it is voyerism, but the mostly it is modeling intolerance and disrespect for due process. She sanctions gut reactions and the innocent will suffer as the inevitable outcome is mob behavior. The FCC should revoke their license.

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#3)
    by cpinva on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 08:58:36 AM EST
    and she gets ratings, the accepted currency of tv. as long as she does so, she'll be on. if she doesn't use profanity, or allow her bra to slip, briefly revealing a nipple, no one cares. her sponsors love the controversy she generates, it causes millions of "looks" for their ads, many of which convert to sales. that's what counts. so do most of the rest of you, look at all the posts supportive of duane "dog" chapman, nancy's evil twin.

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 08:58:36 AM EST
    I have long believed that what Nancy Grace needs is a good therapist and not a bad television show. I don't think that she has ever moved on from the horrific tragedy of losing her fiance from a criminal act. While she used that experience to become a lawyer, it is obvious that the hard work that comes with overcoming grief was stalled somewhere along the line. Along with so many people who became rich and famous after the OJ trial, Miss Grace appointed herself as the guardian of the victimized, and has allowed herself to not only buy her own hype, but to become it.Unfortunately for society, like so many cult figures(including George W. Bush)her followers will not see past the hype in order to deal with the horror of who they really are and what they have truly done.

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#6)
    by ScottW on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 08:58:36 AM EST
    Careful people. A fired Nancy Grace is not going to stay unemployed very long. I'd rather see her ranting on TV where I can change the channel, then sitting at the prosecutor's desk in my city. Think of the hatred she already has, then add the embarrassment of getting publicly fired. Talk about a prosecutor with a chip on her shoulder. Did anyone see her sorry excuse for an apology, talk about blaming the victim, it was a disGRACE.

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 09:30:51 AM EST
    Grace is a narcissistic sociopath.

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 09:58:38 AM EST
    I have written before and will write again to CNN requesting her show be removed. She is EXACTLY the kind of jackass that spoils jury pools by prejudicing them with her vitriolic ignorance. She and Bush are two side to the same coin, both believe in good and evil, both believe there's black and white, and nary a shade of gray, and they both believe they are gifted with the ability to spot that evil from a distance, and then to lambast the rest of America for not recognizing it, and taking 'appropriate action' Nancy Grace is a DISGRACE, and should be cast aside like so much garbage....I LOATHE HER....

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#9)
    by txpublicdefender on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 10:06:12 AM EST
    I'm enjoying the sweet, sweet karma of Nancy being "wrongfully accused" of causing this woman's death.

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 11:55:11 AM EST
    The GOP would like more Nancy Graces out there, rather than do the hard work of actually enforcing laws (on themselves, included). She is becoming CNN's embarrassing version of the disgraced Ann Coulter, the cunning stunt of the right wing.

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 11:55:11 AM EST
    Nancy Graceless -crime pornographer and vigilante

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#12)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 11:55:11 AM EST
    Nancy Graceless -crime pornographer and vigilante

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#13)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 11:55:11 AM EST
    Watched her show once...that was enough. Did she hire Tammy Faye's make-up artist?

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#14)
    by Lww on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 05:04:30 PM EST
    I don't get all this hatred of someone who articulates what almost every policemen, firefighter or paramedic thinks(everyday) after they've scooped up and processed the remains of some innocent victim. Is she assaulting your firm belief in the "goodness" of people( except rightwing republicans) who populate our country? Besides right wing republicans there are some bad people out there, whats wrong with calling them what they are: not very nice people.

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#15)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Sep 19, 2006 at 05:34:42 PM EST
    The eyes are a window to the sole. All I see looking in her eyes is pure evil. The fact that a large segment of the population can't see anything wrong with such a biased person being a prosecutor for the state is scary. In fact, her, O'Lyly and the rest of victims' lobby (e.g., that ashole John Walsh, that other evil bastard Mark Klauss, and the toothless moron Mark Lunsford) are now influencing laws. If they had their way we would all pay for the problems they have suffered. I can't wait until Nancy goes high-def so I get a better view of her face. Could you imagine being married to that?

    Re: Reviewing Nancy Grace (none / 0) (#16)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Sep 19, 2006 at 05:34:42 PM EST
    You must only speak to safety personnel looking for rightwing tv careers I've never heard anyone in these public services pursue unconvicted persons as Grace does Grace is a daily assault on the right to be proven guilty in a trial --not by some tv bobblehead in 30 second sound bites

    Auto Da Fé? (none / 0) (#17)
    by A Voice of Sanity on Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 03:44:55 PM EST
    Thousands of people would like to see Nancy Grace fired. ...

    I'll bring the matches - and the gasoline!

    Reviewing Nancy Grace | 17 comments (17 topical)