CNN Headline News host Nancy Grace is the truest, most tragic example of parental wisdom in childhood: that it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Grace has had a great time pounding her desk as the avenging television host, but now someone's dead, and it's not fun anymore.
Read C.W. Nevius' excellent column on this nadir of sleaze in today's San Francisco Chronicle.
...Grace's grandstanding, badgering interview was bad enough. But the idea that her producers at CNN elected to go ahead and run the interview, even though they knew Duckett had killed herself, has veterans of television news shaking their heads.
"Look, Nancy Grace does what she does. She's an act,'' said Judy Muller, an Emmy-winning former ABC correspondent who now teaches at USC. "But to go ahead and air it -- that's despicable.''
