Nancy Grace: biting the hand that feeds her

The bad news: Miss Guilty-Until-Proven-Innocent is drawing higher ratings than ever.

The good news:

Grace an Answer to CNN/HN's Prayers

<hr>CNN Headline News, which has never attracted a million viewers to any of its regular programming, may be about to do so. Nancy Grace has been nudging that mark closely in recent days, including Friday when she attracted 942,000 viewers, according to Inside Cable News. Her numbers thereby topped those of each of the regular CNN channel's primetime personalities except Larry King, who drew 1.08 million viewers. Grace also appeared to be cannibalizing the audience for Paula Zahn Now, which airs at the same time. Zahn's numbers were the lowest of the night for CNN, 437,000 viewers -- fewer than half the number for Grace.

So, she may be doing gangbuster ratings for cable, and doing unimaginable harm to the justice system, but at least she's not helping Time Warner's bottom line. . . .