A&E has a forum for the Psychic Kids and some folks mentioning JREF already posted the MDC.
Hi all. I've been posting over at the A&E forum since Paranormal State first aired in December '07. I've felt like posting to a skeptic board would be like preaching to the choir. It gets quite frustrating over there at times and deletions of posts for no apparent reason run rampant. At one point there was a conspiracy from the PRS forum to come over and run us "haters" off but it didn't go so well for them. LOL!
Psychic Kids sinks even lower than PS and personally, I didn't think that was possible. Both PS and PK are just such blatant BS, I simply can't see how even 'believers' buy into this crap. It seems that about a half dozen posters at A&E have a vested interest in these shows as, in their eyes, they can do no wrong. They don't question a single thing and defend PK/PS like it was their very own child.
Recently I've been in email contact with Rita Wiseman (Rita is Community Producer A&E Television Networks at A&E) about the deletions and BTW every epi (that I recall) of Paranormal State was successfully challenged there and were promptly deleted. The following is the first reply that I received from her on June 24 (BTW I'm JenaFL there): "Hi Jena,
Thanks for bringing this matter to my attention. I've been working to correct this situation and am hoping to see some improvement this week. I think the vehement feelings of the members who both support the show and who don't support it has caused a lot of misundertanding [sic]. Things should run more smoothly now and fewer posts will be removed.
Regards,
Rita
It seemed to get better for a little while but this past weekend brought many arbitrary deletions. I had emailed her with a few questions last week that she didn't respond to so I emailed again three days ago.
I said: "Hi Rita, I emailed you last week and don't know if you received it as I didn't receive a response. The deletions of the Psychic Kids board this weekend must number in the hundreds and most were not TOS violations. I even had an entire thread deleted which was nothing more that a C&P from A&E's "Participation" section along with a question to forum members asking what they thought about it. Again, the mods will not talk to us and it's very frustrating. If it's truly a discussion board then please let us discuss. If it's a fan board then why not label it as such? Can we please have contact with the mods so we at least know what is going on??? Below is a copy of the email I sent you last week.
Thank you for your personal attention and a prompt response,
JenaFL"
And this was her response: "Hi Jena,
Lots of folks were out last week or had short weeks at work. I'm still playing catch up on a lot of things but have the monitoring Supervisors checking into this now.
And the mods will remain out of contact. They cannot speak for the company and it just isnt [sic] cost effective for them to participate. The boards are there for anyone to discuss the pros and cons of the show.Those posting have very strong feelings about the show and so the discussions there are volitile [sic]. Its a fine line to walk between stating an opinion about the show and personal attacks on other posters or the participants on the show. Members tend to forget to Debate the topic and not each other. We try to err on the side of removing any kind of attack. We may be overzealous in that reguard [sic] and that's what I'm having the supervisors review.
Thanks for the input.
Rita Wiseman"
And my reply after quote: >>'Its a fine line to walk between stating an opinion about the show and personal attacks on other posters or the participants on the show. Members tend to forget to Debate the topic and not each other.'<<
"This is true. The problem is *selective* deletes. It seems the scales *largely* tip to the pro show members. It looks as if the mods delete innocuous posts of dissenters to simply discourage them from voicing their opinion. Is not the integrity of the actors an issue? These shows are presented as fact and the actors are the show. One simply cannot debate the show without including the actors in the debate.
We are simply trying to get some clarity here Rita.
Thank you for your time.
Jena"
No response so far and my latest email to her is as follows:
"Rita. This has just gotten ridiculous. I just had a post be deleted that was nothing more than a welcome to a new forum member. There's been many more as well. Can something be done about this please? Can you direct me to someone that possibly has some answers?
Many of us, and I mean many many people, have very real issues with PK and PS. If they weren't presented as fact, as if they are documentaries a lot of us wouldn't have such problems with these two shows. PS and especially PK are really stirring up a lot of controversy. I realize that any publicity is good publicity but I sure would like to see A&E act more responsibly.
Thank you for your time.
Jena."
Well, if you've hung in with me so far, thanks!
I wasn't planning to be so long winded but... These shows irk me to no end and for a number of reasons. It's truly amazing what A&E is doing with both the production and presentation of these two shows as well as how they operate their "discussion" boards. But FWIW, as far as I know, no one has ever been banned there.
I feel that these two shows deserve as much attention as they can possibly get so I encourage all yall good, decent critical thinkers to have a close looksee and respond accordingly <G>. This is some crazy s*** on several levels. Demons! There's frickin' demons some of these kids are seeing and talking to. WTF! "Reality" TV has taken a giant leap backwards... way back. All the episodes are on youtube for your perusement. YACK!
Peace all.
