Nancy Disgrace
If there is any pundit who should apologize over their handling of the Duke rape case, its Nancy Grace which the RGJ just helpfully interviewed:
She said sometimes she can hardly come back from a commercial break because she is so upset.
“I keep a box of tissues by my desk, and Elizabeth (a member of her crew) knows to take away the camera if I’ve started to cry,” she said.
Pardon me while I retch.
Not only did Nancy Grace spend months excoriated the three men accused in the Duke rape case, she shamefully interrogated kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart, and bullied a crime suspect into committing suicide before the police could solve the child kidnapping case. Why is she still on any TV program as a host, let alone CNN?
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She always bugged me. She is so brutally judgemental, and not very nice to her guests on her show. Reminds me of a female Bill O’Reilly. And that accent….
Beats me why anyone would consider her either informational or entertaining. If I were a media-consumer (advertiser) I’d really not want my brand associated with her badgering. I tuned her out during her earlier Duke Debacle and haven’t tuned back in since.
Trial-by-press is certainly nothing new in this country. At the advent
of the 24-hour news network (i.e. CNN) many journalists had hoped the extra time would allow for deeper reporting. And let’s not forget that sometimes it does.
The Iraq War has been quite thoroughly covered, to the chagrin of some in the Bush Administration. 24-hour news also showed us the images of Bosniak men in concentration camps, spurring the world to action in the Balkans.
But it also has created a whole lot of empty time that needs to be filled with “infotainment.” This shouldn’t shock anyone. Adding a new wing to the shopping mall doesn’t make the stores better, just more numerous.
As a former prosecutor I’ve wondered just how good a prosecutor Nancy Grace was before she went on TV.
She, of all persons, should be aware of the need for objectivity and the need to resist trying to convict people via the media.
TV pundits talking about people charged with a crime should refrain from leaving the impression they are guilty of the offense(s) charged.
The presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law is a serious and necessary rule of law.
These TV talk shows that deal in this subject matter have a responsibility to be ever mindful of that presumption of innocence. All people charged with a criminal offense are not necessarily guilty of the offense charged. They may well be guilty of a lesser included offense. But guilt does not attach until proven in court, not in the media.
Nancy Grace was proven wrong again on Monday April 23rd from all of Nancy’s assertions that KENNETH GLENN HINSON was guilty of crimes including kidnappings, sex crimes, and assault with intent to kill two teen girls in an underground bunker located in Darlington, South Carolina last year. Remember Nancy’s unfounded rants?
After Nancy Grace pummeled, ridiculed, slandered, and defamed Hinson on multiple shows aired by Nancy Grace/CNN, the court jurors acquitted Hinson today of above charges that Nancy Grace implied repeatedly Hinson was guilty of. Hinson was facing the possibility of a life sentence without parole, and Nancy had conveyed her apparent desire that a death sentence against Hinson may be more appropriate for Hinson.
But, sorry Nancy Grace, one has to found guilty of those crimes before those measures can indeed be taken. Nancy, is wrong again. It appears that the only crime and miscarriage of justice committed in this matter was the coverage of the case by Nancy Grace. It is suspected that Nancy Grace will need more direct-counseling, more “damage-control measures”, and possible more medications for the stresses Nancy is experiencing being proven wrong over and over and nearly every single day Nancy Grace broadcasts a show through CNN.
Get your checkbook ready Nancy, you are certainly going to be writing some big checks soon to help cover some of these upcoming lawsuits against you. Hinson’s defense attorney, Rick Hoefer, will likely soon sue Nancy Grace and CNN of even more civil crimes that Nancy Grace has documented against herself.
The upcoming lawsuits against Nancy Grace, alleging Nancy committing crimes against a suicide victim and estate, against all the Duke Lacrosse defendants, and against victims like Joran VanderSloot of the Natalee Holloway case are just a few upcoming lawsuits that will be filed soon against Nancy Grace and CNN according to many defense attorneys and blogs.
It is clear that CNN Management does not even bother to watch any of Nancy’s shows. If they did, they would never allow Nancy Grace to ever be around any victim of any crime. Nor would they allow her to commit more crimes against more victims as Nancy continues to document against herself. How CNN can allow this unprofessional misconduct by Nancy Grace to continue to occur is beyond all sensible and rational reasoning. To make some money-profits over the best interests of victims is not a choice most well-educated and caring people would choose.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18273283/
and
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=85250&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%2F&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true