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| If Mr. Medium's that good, why didn't he say something September 10th? |
| 2001-10-26 |
If every society gets the Oz it deserves, then ours, currently, is John Edward. Edward, for the cable-free, is a tv medium/psychic who, through the miracle of his clairvoyant gifts, connects hopeful American rubes with their dearly rube departed. Edward has gone ahead and taped segments for his show Crossing Over in which he brings dead WTC attack victims into contact with their surviving family members. Now, as relates to shameless exploitation, inconceivably bad taste and the dreary fact that our culture really does feed on this dross, there's no shortage of things to be said. News reports, while covering the process side of the story—and Studios USA boss Barry Diller’s putting the kibosh on the whole deal—did a decent job in the tsk-tsking department, to be sure. My only question, then, is the one I suspect every nine-year-old weisenheimer's gonna need to have answered at some point: If Edward's so psychic, why didn't he speak up on Sept. 10? Huh John Edward, why didn't ya? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |