It's probably safe to say veteran channel surfers' thumbs get busy the second Nancy Grace's mug appears on the tube. She's not only obnoxious, she's predictable. But since she's still on the air there must be an audience for someone like her.
On the flip side there's Joe Bob Briggs ready to administer a bully beat down to Grace and others in the media who whipped their audiences into a lynch mob frenzy after the Calee Anthony jury's "not guilty" verdict. See Pitchforks and Torches in Orlando. Excerpt:
So what are we taught to do in Journalism 101?
Acknowledge and ignore. Acknowledge that the rabble is outside. Write about it if it threatens to contaminate the jury. Ensure that we the media don’t become part of the story.
I never went to journalism school anyway, so I wasn’t around when they apparently added Journalism 102, which can be summed up by reporters’ attitudes at the Anthony trial:
STIR UP THE RABBLE! TELL THEM HOW RIGHT THEY ARE! GET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORY AS AN ADVOCATE FOR JUSTICE BUT DON’T QUOTE ARISTOTLE!
You tell 'em, Joe Bob.
P.S. Loved the drive-in movie reviews.
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