Nancy Grace is a taint on the face of the Earth that needs to be removed

If there's one thing I really hate about CNN Headline News, it's Nancy Grace. Airing right around dinner time, Nancy Grace's show primarily centers itself on missing people, interviewing the families of those missing, speaking to people involved in the justice system, and passing off theories over who could be responsible for the crime. 

What's so irritating about Nancy Grace is the utter lack of objectivity in her journalism. Instead of remaining apart from her guests or subject matter, Grace instead becomes a part of it, too much a part of it. Week after week after week, Grace's show can remain on the same crime, interviewing the same people again and again, and then pass judgment--even gleeful judgement--over who she believes committed the crime. A brief viewing of her show turns quickly into ad nauseam, both for her utter lack of serious journalistic skills, and the sheer brutish capitalization of her name and fame on the deaths and disappearances of others. All of this adds up to Grace epitomizing everything that is wrong with American journalism in the first half of the 21st century.

Take Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen who went missing in Aruba last year. Grace, along with Greta Van Susteren, aired week after week after week of coverage of the missing teen to the point where media coverage had reached exhaustion. In all due respect of the Holloway family, of all the thousands of missing Americans in those many weeks of coverage, blonde, attractive and white Natalee was more important than everyone else. Of the two thousand-plus Americans and tens upon tens of thousands of Iraqis who have died in the war, Natalee was more important than everyone else. It was the triumph of missing white woman syndrome.

Nancy Grace would have been an English professor had not her fiancé been violently murdered in 1980. It changed her direction to become a prosecutor, and a very successful one at that. However, the Georgia Supreme Court has twice cited Grace of exceeding the limits of closing arguments, as well as illegal conduct during a trial in the 1990s. Last year, the Federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said the Grace "played fast and loose" with facts in a trial 15 years before.

And now here she is as a media personality, droning night after night on the misfortune of others, sucking tragic events dry like a feasting vampire for her own fame, and passing guilt with a black-and-white worldview that would make Donald Rumsfeld blush. For a person who worked in the criminal justice system for over a decade, one should expect a former lawyer to follow that simple line innocent until proven guilty. But not Grace. Using her own personal tragedy as a pretext, Grace revels in passing staunch judgement on suspects--a primetime lynch mob followed by a very public national crucifixion--even if she's wrong, which she has been.

Do what any reasonable human being should do: turn Nancy Grace off.  To use Stephen Colbert's "truthiness," Grace has little to offer there.