“No Grace” & King “Dethroned”

Salon nominates six shows “we hate to watch:” programs that “deserve to be tuned out, unplugged and remaindered to the outer reaches of cable rerun purgatory for good.” Both news shows on the list come from CNN:

Amy Reiter nominates Larry King Live: He “bugs the crap out of me. Look, I don’t feel great about proclaiming that. In all honesty, it feels a little like beating up somebody’s grandmother. But then again, nobody’s grandmother I know appears before a Lite-Brite and roughly 1 million viewers every night asking interesting people the most banal questions imaginable — and often appearing to read those questions off a card…”

And Scott Lamb nominates Nancy Grace: “The nostril-flaring talking head has cultivated a television persona based entirely on an aggressive, one-note belligerence that usually bypasses logical argument to go straight for personal attack and often breaks the rules of good taste along the way (see her recent bullying of Elizabeth Smart for a prime example of how Grace tries to go there, no matter how sleazy there happens to be)…”