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Thursday, Jul 06
Quite Possibly A New Low For Nancy Grace
> Update: 4:49pm: "Grace is entertainment and learning, not news. Stop trying to make her sound like news," an e-mailer says. A second adds: "Jeeze, thats not so bad, Nancy is trying to free this lady for killing this guy...and even if they were public airwaves few would have much of a problem with that."
The following transcript may make you feel sick to your stomach. If you read it, remember that this dialogue was broadcast into 89 million homes on CNN Headline News. On July 4, CNN's Nancy Grace had an "exclusive jailhouse interview" with Stacey Lannert, who was sentenced to life without parole for murdering her sex offender father in 1990. Her family is hoping for clemency. Grace sat down with Lannert and asked her to relive "truly revolting experiences," as one e-mailer put it. "Even as her guest hesitatingly stumbled to get the courage to use a word to describe the substance she was forced to ingest, it was Grace who interjected with her idea as to what it was: 'Come.'" It went even farther downhill from there:
> Update: 4:27pm: "While the emailer may hope the FCC condemns CNN, they have no jurisdiction. This was not on "the public airwaves" it was on cable tv, where the FCC has no content regulation authority," another e-mailer notes. Email This Post |
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