Crossing Over with John Edward to attempt to communicate with the dead victims of Sept 11th during sweeps week in November | Ars OpenForum

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Studios USA's 'Crossing Over with John Edward' will attempt to communicate with victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in several episodes planned for the November sweeps for the syndicated and, perhaps, cable runs of the show.

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The article says that relatives of the victims approached Edward and asked him to do this. Of course, not one of the victim's families is named, and there's no quotes from anyone except the producer of the show.

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[Steve Rosenberg, the studio's domestic syndication president], anticipating concerns by viewers, says the shows 'will be done tastefully'¦and won't be exploitative,' and notes that the idea grew after relatives of victims first approached Edward, not the other way around.

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How can someone produce a show about 9/11 that is already about exploiting people's fears over death and dying, their sadness over their lost loved ones, and such and make the bold claim that it's going to be tasteful?

This is worse than anyone making profit off selling flags, t-shirts, buttons and other patriotic things simply because this actor Edwards is going to say he's actually hearing the dead from Sept 11th talk to him. If true that victims families approached him, I'm amazed they give any credence to this guy, obviously a product of some focus group or survey done by some powerful tv-media company.

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