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October 06, 2006
"Graceless and Tasteless"

Posted by Bill

Stephen King channels Jack Torrence's bloody roque mallet:

Ron Williamson went through the horrors of the damned, and he's been much on my mind the last couple of weeks as I force-fed myself doses of Ms. Grace, the Darth Vader of CNN Headline News (which, like this magazine, is owned by Time Warner). And before you accuse me of writing about news in your favorite entertainment magazine, let me assure you that Nancy Grace is entertainment...if, that is, you're the sort who watches NASCAR for the crashes and Survivor hoping no one will. In the increasingly weird world of infotainment, she is the belle of the Freakers Ball.

Nancy Grace - puffy-cheeked, helmet-haired, heavy-lidded, strangely expressionless even during her frequent rages - conveys by body language alone the idea that we're all guilty of something...and she knows it. Her specialty is the sorts of tabloid crimes The National Enquirer used to cover in the bad old days, when car-crash photos and Mexican decapitations were staples. George Pelecanos, James Ellroy, and Michael Connelly are able to elevate such horrors to art; Nancy Grace degrades them so deeply into the fleapit of the imagination that a week of her makes Dick Cheney highlight reels look good. And like Puritan elders, Wild West hanging judges, or Madame Defarge knitting in the shadow of the guillotine, Nancy Grace gives the sense that somehow, someway, she just knows whodunit.

That was perhaps the kind part, as King goes on to pan Grace's behavior surrounding the Linda Duckett suicide.

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So who's the most unwatchable: Nancy Grace, bill O'Reilly or Chris Matthews.
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Posted by: rbj at October 6, 2006 12:50 PM

That is an excellent question.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 6, 2006 01:03 PM

rbj,
Add Olberman to that list.

Posted by: JohnAnnArbor at October 6, 2006 02:58 PM

Why not add every single TV "new" program, talking head, or "special" while you're at it? They all suck, just in different ways.

Posted by: John Burgess at October 7, 2006 12:40 PM

I love the reference to "dissects" -- more like slices and dices, and I imagine the knife was so sharp she never felt the cuts.

I don't watch Headline News and now I probably never will.

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