CNN Headline News' Nancy Grace has traveled to Hurrican Katrina-devastated Mississippi to help on reconstruction. It's a private visit, we are being told/spun; she is doing this good work on her "vacation."
But wait: We also learn
that the footage from her trip will be used on her show during Thanksgiving and Christmas. Which is to say, it's not a vacation at all! Her trip down there is part of her paid gig for CNN. A paid vacation--we all would like one of those!
If Nancy Grace wants to help the people of Mississippi, that's noble. But if she wants to help while being paid by CNN, well, she still might be doing some good, but the moral standing of her activity is thus transformed. She is no longer doing charity work, she is doing television work. And if she is slyly spinning/misleading the local press as to what she is doing down there along the Gulf Coast, and why, then she is doing something else, something altogether ignoble: she is lying.
