Nancy Grace’s Story

Nancy Grace represents a couple of trends that I find disagreeable in our current culture: the cult of victimhood and the populist impatience with due process in our legal system. She has described defense attorneys as "guards at Auschwitz" and propels CNN’s ratings with a nightly cascade of sneers and harrumphs against anyone who dares to defend the accused in criminal proceedings. Her schtick is enabled by her own story – of the murder of her fiance many years ago. It turns out, according to the New York Observer, that the story, as told by Grace, may not be quite as she has made it out to be. Details here.