Someone asked me recently why I don’t watch TV. I have all sorts of answers to that question, but my first answer is usually that I would have to do a lot more digging to find something worthwhile compared to, say, the internet*.
Take journalism, for example.
I was reading an update on the trial of Elizabeth Smart’s abductors (captured in 2003) and found this July 2006 interview by Nancy Grace televised on CNN. Ms. Smart agreed to be interviewed to discuss a bill being pushed through Washington, D.C., to monitor sex offenders, but Nancy Grace’s line of questioning went in another direction entirely. The full transcript of the interview is here.
I’ve never seen Nancy Grace before, but this is unequivocally one of the worst television interviews I’ve ever seen. How does this woman get to have her own show?!? Not even a two-o’clock-in-the-morning infomercial, but a prime time network show in the category of Headline News! Just skimming the transcript set off alarm bells, I can only imagine what was going through Elizabeth Smart’s mind as she was being interviewed in this absurdly melodramatic way. (‘Get me out of here!’)
Back to the flight books before I rant too long into the night…
* The internet is riddled with junk, too, but I have a lot more than a remote control or TiVo at my disposal to filter it out.
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