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The mere sound of that wretched sensationalist's voice makes me (and my wife) ill, but my wife likes the format of the show.

I love Nancy Grace she tells it like it is and doesn't have a problem standing up to anyone.  I get so sick of people saying "well she is ugly".  Who cares she is good and usually the one saying that about her aren't too great looking themselves.

I agree with her getting to the point, but I think she is arrogant.  But of course she is a lawyer~

Oh she drives me NUTS!  I can't believe the way she talks about the same thing for EVER.  Like when that little kid in Florida was missing (forgive me, I don't remember the poor child's name) she did nothing but talk about her from the minute she disappeared until they found her.  Just months and months of that.  Ugh.

There's an old saying, "Ugly is as ugly does."  There's also, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."  One person's ugly may be another person's beautiful!

I appreciate Nancy Grace. She didn't allow the murder of her fiance to make her a victim. She became an advocate and doesn't let people forget the missing children or innocent victims of their predators. She asks the questions I want to know.

My sister is a lawyer :( Don't do horrid testing on the mother of my nephew! She also does a lot of pro bono, too, not ALL lawyers are bad!

Nancy has an annoying voice and I hate her hair. That is why I do not watch.

I like Nancy Grace. She is a strong woman and does not let anybody influence her thoughts. I started watching her through the Casey Anthony era and she was just no unforgiving. She says stuff people need to hear. She may have an annoying voice, but she uses it for what she believes and for that I like her.

I used to like Nancy Grace until she covered a subject that involved something and someone I knew a lot about. It was then that I realized she doesn't do her research, barely knows what she is talking about, and goes on the attack making assumptions based solely on her opinion. I still watch her now and then and I like hearing what others have to say but the flippant way Nancy dismisses anyone who disagrees with her point of view is a turn off.

She really missed the mark when covering the situation I knew about and that makes me wonder how many other things she just infuses opinion rather than fact into and leads us to believe she knows more than she does. She's smart and strong willed but I lost respect for her during that time. She was out for ratings and clearly made an assumption based on opinions without even trying to get the facts.

I don't care for her personally.  But I do understand and am open-minded as to why some might like her.  As Patty just stated, she does seem to dismiss those in disagreement with her.  She also talks about her twins too much - sorry.  I never knew her fiance was murdered, that's very sad. 

Funny that we share the same first name, and the last name is awfully close to mine too.

PattyTherre said…

I used to like Nancy Grace until she covered a subject that involved something and someone I knew a lot about. It was then that I realized she doesn't do her research, barely knows what she is talking about, and goes on the attack making assumptions based solely on her opinion. I still watch her now and then and I like hearing what others have to say but the flippant way Nancy dismisses anyone who disagrees with her point of view is a turn off.

She really missed the mark when covering the situation I knew about and that makes me wonder how many other things she just infuses opinion rather than fact into and leads us to believe she knows more than she does. She's smart and strong willed but I lost respect for her during that time. She was out for ratings and clearly made an assumption based on opinions without even trying to get the facts.

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Patty,

You hit the nail right on the head why I, personally, don't watch Nancy Grace on HLN.

While I don't have the "personal connection"  that you did to any cases she has highlighted on her show, I do share your dislike of her dismissive attitudes toward any guests or speakers who don't agree with her on the air, especially when it's someone who is a defense attorney who wants to say something relevant from his or her point of view.  She scoffs, she grimaces and she scolds them simply because they say things she clearly does not want to hear.

I know that lots of her fans like her because she is a no-nonsense former prosecutor with an uplifting morality tale of a backstory; as a young woman her fiancee was murdered and she went into law school, became a successful prosecutor and all that, finally finding happiness with her current husband and her twins.  And I also realize that many viewers tend to like her aggressive posture on the air because it reflects their sense of moral outrage and a "lock 'em up, throw away the key" attitude toward criminal suspects.  It makes for good drama but unfortunately it has caused at least one "guest" to commit suicide. (I don't remember the woman's name, but it was a Florida mom who was suspected of murdering her two-year-old son.  She foolishly agreed to talk on the air with Ms Grace, who then went on to interrogate and berate her mercilessly.  The next day, the suspect committed suicide.  Was she guilty? Maybe, maybe not.  Nancy's fans say that she was and point to the suicide as proof of her guilt.  But because Nancy has a bias as a former prosecutor and all that, she believes in the concept of "guilty until proven innocent.")

Another thing...she never acknowledges that she is ever wrong.

I completely agree with PattyTherre and Fardreamer.

We watched her sometimes but stopped. She does not respect guests who disagree with her. She definitely does not do enough research to substantiate her arguments. She substitutes opinions for facts. She seems to think she's infallible. We used to like a couple of her shows.

Buggheart said…

Oh she drives me NUTS!  I can't believe the way she talks about the same thing for EVER.  Like when that little kid in Florida was missing (forgive me, I don't remember the poor child's name) she did nothing but talk about her from the minute she disappeared until they found her.  Just months and months of that.  Ugh.

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I believe you're referring to the Casey Anthony case, in which the aforementioned woman was arrested and charged with the murder of her two-year-old daughter, Caylee.

Though I think it is important to update viewers on cases where a child may possibly still be alive, I don't believe that fixating on one case or two is helpful.

Also, Ms. Grace tends to use the same intro and phrasing when she's updating.  For instance, during the search for Caylee, she used to say the same stock phrases "a beautiful two-year-old girl named Caylee who was reported missing by her grandparents one month after they last saw her..." over and over.

She also says "Bombshell tonight!" every night.  Even for small unimportant "facts" which are often wrong or even overblown.