I don't even know where the hell to begin with this one.
Anybody who's visited my site more than a couple of times is probably well aware of my unrelenting abhorrence of Nancy Grace. In the past, I've called her "the most loathsome, feckless troll to currently, inexplicably, have a forum on national television," a "vile, unscrupulous monster who peddles morbid prurience like a five-dollar street-walker and whose brand of rank solipsism is matched only by her near-sociopathic disregard for the lives she's ruined and exploited and by her apparent contempt for the tenets of responsible journalism (to say nothing of basic human decency)."
And that was exercising restraint.
Well, in a display of almost incomprehensibly naked hypocrisy, lawyers for both Nancy Grace and CNN filed an emergency motion in an Ocala, Florida courtroom yesterday demanding that cameras be barred from recording Grace's scheduled deposition this Thursday in the wrongful death suit brought against her and her employer. The suit, as you probably know, stems from an interview Grace did in 2006 with the mother of a missing toddler -- an interview that was more like a police interrogation and one which may have led to the woman committing suicide less than 24-hours later. The family of Melinda Duckett claims that not only did Grace coax the troubled 21-year-old mother onto her show then bully her when she couldn't or wouldn't satisfactorily answer questions about her missing son -- leading Grace to of course imply that Duckett herself was behind the disappearance -- but that Grace then added insult to injury by airing the pre-taped interview after Duckett had already shot herself.
Grace's lawyers say the presence of cameras in the courtroom would cause unnecessary embarrassment to their client.
Sorry -- what?
The irony is so bald-faced as to be almost laughable: Nancy Grace was allowed to put a 21-year-old girl from Central Florida -- a woman who, regardless of what she may or may not have done, was an unsophisticated neophyte when it came to the way a modern media feeding frenzy works and was clueless to the fact that she was the blood in the shark-infested waters -- in front of a television camera and publicly eviscerated her to the point where it may have led to her killing herself. But now Grace, who's made an entire career out of pulling this kind of repugnant horseshit over and over again in the name of ratings, should be afforded a measure of respect and spared the embarrassment of being grilled on national television? She somehow deserves more consideration than she gives the guests on her show, many of whom she seems to delight in playing the venerable inquisitor of? She deserves to be spared just a small taste of what she put Melinda Duckett through?
Not a chance.
Live by public humiliation, die by it, Nancy.
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That may be the best description I have ever read in my life!
Bravo! Bravo! Author! Author!
Having said that, I don't care if she loaded the gun and handed it to Duckett...
NO ONE is responsible for anyone's suicide but themselves.
By definition.
For good reason.
And why is it good?
There was a recent case in which the mother of one teen took to the internet to continually and maliciously attack a former friend of her daughter... in which, over a period of months she engaged in spreading the most vile rumors and posting them online where all the girl's friends and classmates would see them, made a series of false sexually explicit accusations that utterly destroyed the girl's reputation.
The girl committed suicide after being completely ostracised at school, labeled a sl*t, a wh*re, you name it. All based on false accusations made by this twisted woman, posing as a fellow classmate.
You're telling me you attach no responsibility for the suicide to that woman? Really??
I know the case you speak of...I said that same thing then, too.
I'm not saying that harrassing the girl was right...it was not. She should be charged with harassment or stalking, etc.
But, fair or unfair, EVERYONE faces hardship...you have to persevere in the face of the hardship.
That girl did not d*e because she was stalked or made fun of, she is gone because she CHOSE to not deal with it.
And, "regardless of what she may or may not have done" - referring to a mother who obstructed and confused efforts to find her missing baby child - is a poor turn of phrase.
I have found Nancy Grace to be pretty straight; not pleasant, but perfectly right on with her questions....
certainly in the sordid worlds and lives she attempts to address and clarify the situation and not let any niceties or false comforts get in the way. In the case mentioned here as well as others, anyone who puts up excuses doesn't deserve to get away with them.
Where is that child, anyway, by the way?
Nancy Grace, is that YOU? Quit messing around on Huffingtonpost and call your agent. You're going to need to do some serious PR work when your trial is over. ;-)
Sorry, Annis. I have to agree with Chez. Nancy's career is built on embarrassing and grilling her guests. Karmic justice s*cks, but it's always doled out fairly.
2) And just how do we know which event is "karmic justice" ?
3) http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/27/crimesider/entry6146531.shtml
4) FYI - I think the proceedings should be open in the wrongful death suit. What I was saying was that Pazienza's "prose" was over-the-top itself. Why criticize someone for doing what you are doing yourself?
Most importantly - what happened to that child? Where is he if he is still alive?