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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTitter... Nancy Grace out at CNN
After 12 years of true-crime bullshit and an official twitter account so demented as to be indistinguishable from parody, Nancy Grace is out at CNN.
A network spokesperson tells The Hollywood Reporter that a new series one that will "utilize the expertise of the current team" will replace Nancy Grace in the 8 p.m. slot following the airing of the final episode on Oct. 13. The decision was a difficult one, according to Grace, who in an emotional interview with THR admits to being "really mixed" about taking a step she's been "thinking a lot about" for the past three years.
Grace's reputation is for shouting down guests and making dubious accusations, at least two of which preceded her targets' apparent suicides. Her professional background was as a supposedly brilliant prosecutor, and her crime-fighting origin story was a fiance's murder, but it never quite added up. The New York Times:
Ms. Grace came by her victimhood honestly when her fiancé, Keith Griffin, was killed when she was just 19. In her book Objection, Ms. Grace suggested that a stranger with a criminal record shot Mr. Griffin outside a convenience store, was arrested and denied any involvement. By her recollection, she had to sit through three days of agonizing deliberation and then the prosecutor asked her if the defendant should be given the death penalty. She said no, she had no stomach for it.
The New York Observer fact-checked her written account and discovered that Mr. Griffin was killed by a former co-worker with no criminal record who confessed to the crime immediately. At trial, he was convicted within hours and the prosecution did in fact ask for the death penalty, but was denied. Ms. Grace explained the variance by telling The Observer, I have tried not to think about it.
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Titter... Nancy Grace out at CNN (Original Post)
tenderfoot
Jun 2016
OP
She's been appearing as a guest on CNN in recent days commenting on trial news
pinboy3niner
Jun 2016
#6
coco77
(1,327 posts)1. What took so long..
I couldn't believe she could get away with shouting down people.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)2. Who will save "the babehs" from legal marijuanas?
Rex
(65,616 posts)3. Is she still around? I thought her 10 seconds of fame was up 10 years ago.
Then again, I don't watch cable tv.
TacoD
(581 posts)4. They needed her salary to pay Corey Lewandowski (nt)
spanone
(135,636 posts)5. she'll land at faux, tmz or some other vapid news / reality show network
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)6. She's been appearing as a guest on CNN in recent days commenting on trial news
Especially on Ashleigh Banfield's 'Legal View' show. I wonder if that will continue...
Night Watchman
(743 posts)7. GUILTY!
I think you know what I mean.