Nancy Grace Unapologetic For Mother's Suicide After TV Appearance...
There you go, you without sin, you moralistic hypacrit, throw the first stone you're pretty good at that, After all Cable News declares you guilty today, not the courts they are extinct, you are not innocent until proved guilty, that is certainly a thing of the past in America today.
Eat The Press Rachel Sklar September 15, 2006 at 04:44 PM
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Nancy Grace went on "Good Morning America" today to talk about her verbal pummelling of 21-year old Melinda Duckett , the mother of missing 2-year-old Trenton Duckett who shot herself two days later. Grace's unapologetic take: "If anything, I would suggest that guilt made her commit suicide." Sympathetic, ain't she?
There are a few issues here and it's important to separate them out. First, Grace is correct: "To suggest that a 15 or 20 minute interview can cause someone to commit suicide is focusing on the wrong thing." Trenton Duckett is missing, and Melinda Duckett can no longer speak for herself, but clearly there is more here than the general public is aware of. So the issue becomes one of Grace's tactics: Is there a line she crossed in going after Duckett hard? The woman did consent to be on her show, after all, and she was evasive (yelled Grace: "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?"). Grace has been criticized for her aggressive approach (cf. Elizabeth Smart) (and has, in fact, been memorialized as a ratings-hungry truth-ignoring scandal-flogging harpy on the new TV show "Justice"), but it is an open question what "line" there is to cross in the world of today's on-air shoutfests (from C.W. Nevius SFGate: "cable news outlets seem to be staging a modern version of the Roman circus, and the louder the better").
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Eat The Press Rachel Sklar September 15, 2006 at 04:44 PM
READ MORE: Good Morning America
Nancy Grace went on "Good Morning America" today to talk about her verbal pummelling of 21-year old Melinda Duckett , the mother of missing 2-year-old Trenton Duckett who shot herself two days later. Grace's unapologetic take: "If anything, I would suggest that guilt made her commit suicide." Sympathetic, ain't she?
There are a few issues here and it's important to separate them out. First, Grace is correct: "To suggest that a 15 or 20 minute interview can cause someone to commit suicide is focusing on the wrong thing." Trenton Duckett is missing, and Melinda Duckett can no longer speak for herself, but clearly there is more here than the general public is aware of. So the issue becomes one of Grace's tactics: Is there a line she crossed in going after Duckett hard? The woman did consent to be on her show, after all, and she was evasive (yelled Grace: "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?"). Grace has been criticized for her aggressive approach (cf. Elizabeth Smart) (and has, in fact, been memorialized as a ratings-hungry truth-ignoring scandal-flogging harpy on the new TV show "Justice"), but it is an open question what "line" there is to cross in the world of today's on-air shoutfests (from C.W. Nevius SFGate: "cable news outlets seem to be staging a modern version of the Roman circus, and the louder the better").
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