CNN's Nancy Grace is one of those newspeople that I absolutely cannot watch. It's always been obvious that she fancies hereself some sort of crusader, and now I see that she is a "former prosecutor."

In a phone interview taped for Grace's show last week, the former prosecutor banged her hand on her desk and repeatedly demanded an account of Duckett's whereabouts on Aug. 27, the day her son, Trenton, vanished.

Once Grace had badgered Ms. Duckett into submission, she cut to a "media psychologist" who she had on hand, who said:

. . . Duckett's story "doesn't make any sense to me. And the fact that she's skirting around the issue and can't get to the point concerns me a lot. Her reaction is not the typical reaction of a mother who has a missing child."

I don't even know how to express myself about this, but it seems to me that newspeople on television seem to give themselves a great deal more importance than their jobs would suggest, and most of them either seem to think that they're movie stars, or prosecutors--Ms. Grace seems to think she's both.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's the place of a television news presenter to put herself in a position of prosecuting a crime, even to the point of driving her victim to suicide. But I don't think so. I think it's wrong, and disgraceful.