A recent article on Skepchick.org suggested a letter-writing campaign to the television network A&E to complain about their completely reprehensible and morally bankrupt show “Psychic Kids.”
I’d already written an angry letter to the network back when the show first aired but I decided to follow the Skepchick example and help this campaign by writing a second letter to the network.
Here’s what I wrote A&E:
Two years ago, when you began running the insipid program entitled “Psychic Kids,” I wrote a complaint about the abject nation of the show that promised that as long as that show remained on the air, I would never watch your network.
It’s two years later and I have kept my word. And now I’m writing you again to voice my disapproval of this program.
I am deeply offended by how little your network thinks of its audience that you chose to air a show that so obviously exploits the fantasy life of children under the guise of a serious documentary about “psychic kids.” There’s nothing impressive about a child making up a name of an imaginary friend and then later discovering that someone who lived an hour away 150 years ago happened to possess that name who really had a mother named “Catherine” and someone else in their family named “Sarah.” This is basic cold reading and retro-fitting of broad predictions.
This show is shameless and I assure you that as long as it continues to run on your network, I will continue to keep my word and not watch your network.
And now I urge others to join the campaign to help A&E regain at least one more potential viewer. After all, with the growing quality programing on other basic cable networks, I’d hate to find out A&E has found the next Mad Men or The Walking Dead and be unable to see it because I’m still boycotting the network.
Here’s how to contact them:
Online: You can use the form here to send an electronic message.
Mail:
A&E Television Networks
235 East 45th Street
New York, NY 10017
