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ABC News vs. Reason

It's not just political agendas that are making American network news unbearable. ABC's "Primetime Live" recently devoted an hour to a Brazilian "faith healer," and consulted James Randi, the living patron saint of skepticism, to provide a responsible scientific viewpoint on the alleged miracles. Randi's extensive and expert deconstruction of classic faith-healer scamming was reduced to a rather ineffectual nineteen-second clip on the hour program.

Randi has devoted his entire weekly online column to telling the true story of how this "news" broadcast sacrificed any objectivity to produce a tantalizing, "could-it-be-true" commercial for a huckster, which they believe people would rather watch.

I dread the notion that they're right.