Nancy Grace - CNN

[Couture]

Next Dan Rather. You heard it here first.

 

[CharleyH]

Next Dan Rather. You heard it here first.

I thought he was dead? Which would make hearing it here, verrrry X-files.

 

[cantdog]

Rather passed through a few phases. He apprenticed in the business to Ed Murrow. He was by schooling a journalist, which a vanishingly small proportion of newscasters are, now. After the Chicago convention of '68, where the police rioted and Rather was personally assaulted on the Convention floor, he had a real edge to his style. For years he was known as a skeptic when presented with government "official information." Republican presidents schemed to exclude him from the press corps which got to ask the questions at white house press conferences. Directly after the WTC hijack bombings he expressed the position, spontaneously, that he stood ready to serve the interest of his President. He wasn't going to say things on air which his government wanted suppressed. He announced that on air, during the marathon live coverage which immediately followed the incident. Within a year, his name was once again mud to Republican talking heads everywhere.

I don't know the lady you mention. Never even heard the name. But given Rather's many faces through the span of his career, I have to wonder which Rather you're referring to. What did she do? Is she journalistic? Partisan? Does she toe the government line? Is she skeptical and investigative? Which is it?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Next Dan Rather. You heard it here first.

No....She can show emotion. I like her.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Nancy Grace


http://www.home.zonnet.nl/kraan90/image/grace,%20nancy4.jpg



Funny, but journalists consider showing emotion to be a lack of professionalism.

Remember William Hurt's faked tear in "Broadcast News?"

Emotion is seen as interfering with an unbiased report — the reporter’s goal.

If showing emotion is your yardstick, I recommend searching out CNN Jeanne Meserve’s report from New Orleans late Monday night.

I know there are MP3's floating about on the web.

Hers was one of the first reports to come out after the self-congratulation had died down over New Orleans ”dodging the bullet”. It was a harrowing account, and Jeanne’s voice broke repeatedly.

Aaron Brown apologised for her difficulty."



Jeanne Meserve


http://www.home.zonnet.nl/kraan90/image/meserve29.jpg

 

[Couture]

Fellow jounalists are not viewers. Man-o-man, I enjoyed watching her clip these pretty boy's wings tonight. Kept going to her man on the street. "Captain Crunch here says that there is 23,000 bottles of water being distributed, have you seen any sign Mark?"

"No Nancy, I haven't. All I'm seeing are scared, hungry, and desperate people."

"Captain Crunch, do you know exactly *where* this mystery water is being distributed?"

"I'm ah-not sure...."

"Captain, if these were young white females trapped down there, do you think you could tell me then?"

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Speaking of CNN:


Anderson Cooper has been getting rather heated recently, hasn't he?

I just saw him noodge Trent Lott into professing satisfaction with the government's emergency response.

'Twixt the Devil & the Big Red Elephant, that.

Lott knows how many of his constituents are dissatisfied, and he tried to soft shoe around Cooper's question.

Cooper wouldn't have that. He put the question, and put it, and came back to it, and again, until Lott had to answer.



Guess Trent Lott knows that the Elephant never forgets, but voters sometimes do.

It almost looks like Cooper has been radicalized.

I just hope it takes.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Speaking of CNN:


Anderson Cooper has been getting rather heated recently, hasn't he?

I just saw him noodge Trent Lott into professing satisfaction with the government's emergency response.

'Twixt the Devil & the Big Red Elephant, that.

Lott knows how many of his constituents are dissatisfied, and he tried to soft shoe around Cooper's question.

Cooper wouldn't have that. He put the question, and put it, and came back to it, and again, until Lott had to answer.



Guess Trent Lott knows that the Elephant never forgets, but voters sometimes do.

It almost looks like Cooper has been radicalized.

I just hope it takes.

I saw that too, VB.
He backed off later in the interview, and Lott recovered pretty well (afterall, his house was destroyed), but it was a welcome instance of a newsman pushing the questions of real people on those in power. As Anderson put it, these were questions posed by people involved in the disaster, and I think that gave him the cover to be as "beligerent" (in comparison to the norm) as he was.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Speaking of CNN:


Anderson Cooper has been getting rather heated recently, hasn't he?

I just saw him noodge Trent Lott into professing satisfaction with the government's emergency response.

'Twixt the Devil & the Big Red Elephant, that.

Lott knows how many of his constituents are dissatisfied, and he tried to soft shoe around Cooper's question.

Cooper wouldn't have that. He put the question, and put it, and came back to it, and again, until Lott had to answer.

Guess Trent Lott knows that the Elephant never forgets, but voters sometimes do.

It almost looks like Cooper has been radicalized.

I just hope it takes.

I saw it too..."people here would really appreciate a visit from you..."

 

[Boxlicker101]

Next Dan Rather. You heard it here first.

I doubt that. Nancy Grace is a former prosecutor who mostly talks about publicized trials like Scott Peterson or others like that. She is about as unbiased on her show as you would expect a former prosecutor to be, loudly proclaiming everybody to be guilty before they have even presented a case. She's about as unbiased as a carnival hustler.