I accidentally stumbled upon Court TV's broadcast of the sentencing of Daniel Biechele for his role in the Rhode Island nightclub fire. I was simply curious of how the sentencing would lay out so I was watching it on MSNBC. All of a sudden their sound feed went wonky, so I turned it to Court TV.
I've never been so pissed off with a "news anchor" in my life. I'm referring to Nancy Grace. I recognize that a lot of the sensationalist journalism that's on the air today either leans conservative or liberal. Being dead in the middle and considering myself moderate, I tend to prefer the slightly liberal stations because they're more likely to play Devil's Advocate and put both sides on the story (whether they're diggin' it or not).
In other words, I like my news the way the did it in the olden days - you know, back when t.v.s had cranks. I want them to say what happened, and get off it. Nancy Grace was so inflamed about Biechele's sentence that I thought that if I watched close enough, I'd see her angry spittle hitting the camera. I think that if the news personality has their own show, it's okay for them to have a "theme" (a la "I'm a jackass who tries to make the experts fight each other"), but if they're simply sitting on a special report, they need to keep their emotions to themselves. She got all loud and...well, bitchy.
She got me turned off with all that "That's not fair" and "That's not right" bullshit. Who is she to make commentary? The on-site correspondent and the guy in the studio were very calmly trying to explain to her that Biechele was sentenced for the crime he committed (i.e. illegally lighting a pyrotechnics display on the ok of the club owner) and not for the outcome (100 people dead). She went on some slippery slope tangent about drunk driving and "running little kids down." The freakin' reporters looked like they wanted to say "Fuck you, Nancy," and leave.
I think this woman should be stripped of her two-piece suit collection and sent home to prune her roses. Hotdamn she pissed me off. I was looking around on the Court TV website for the name of a producer or someone to email about this nut, but realized that they're probably perfectly aware of how nuts she is.
Ooh, she has a Wikipedia entry.
Posted by Tiffany at May 10, 2006 04:02 PM | TrackBack