Another casualty of the shrieking blonde hyena

[sigma7]

Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with CNN’s famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: “Where were you? Why aren’t you telling us where you were that day?”

A day after the taping, Duckett, 21, shot herself to death, deepening the mystery of what happened to the boy.

While I'm normally anti-suicide, I can certainly understand such a reaction to having an extended conversation with Nancy Grace. MTV doesn't show music videos, Sci-Fi has wrestling, Headline News has insightless asshats blathering for two-hour swaths...I'm not sure what background you need to be a cable TV programmer, but apparently it involves a family tree that doesn't branch.

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I blame a lot of it on pressure to snag Emmies and Ace awards and the like. You don't win awards for just showing the forecasts or the headlines or music videos, you have to create "original programming" of some sort. So the Weather Channel forgoes forecasts in half hour chunks to show Storm Stories and so forth. MTV produces everything BUT music videos. And more and more of Headline News vanishes into CNN2-style programming.

Sci Fi Channel is just run by monkeys, though. Monkeys who HATE ALL HUMANITY.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to figure out the mindset on putting that woman on TV, though. Despite the very evident fact that she's got a face made for radio and the profundity of a Magic 8-Ball, the only thing I can figure is that they're trying to capture a key demographic of howler monkeys. And I think Sci-Fi has that cornered.