MEDIA WATCH | A+E TELEVISION NETWORKS

Inexcusable to forward hatred and bigotry

The Leah Remini attacks on the Church of Scientology, my religion, are her own personal affair, for which she must take her own responsibility, and it is inexcusable for your organization to forward such hatred and bigotry.

January 4, 2017

A+E Television Networks
New York, N.Y., 10017

Dear Mr. Buccieri,

As we enter some of the holiest days of various religions on this planet, I am appalled to discover the A+E Networks exploiting religious hatred and bigotry to make a buck.

The Leah Remini attacks on the Church of Scientology, my religion, are her own personal affair, for which she must take her own responsibility, and it is inexcusable for your organization to forward such hatred and bigotry. It smacks of a serious lack of ethical awareness and casts doubt on the very mission and purpose of A+E Networks.

The A+E Networks “tradition,” espoused on your website as “We are fully human-centered,” belies the actual fact of what you consider “the most entertaining parts of the human experience.”

You have made a serious ethical mistake, believing that people consider the misfortunes of others as “entertaining.”

You should be thoroughly ashamed of promoting Leah Remini’s diatribe as entertaining human experience, and one expects you to cease and desist from such alarming anathema and apologize for your blunder forthwith.

Moritz Farbstein
St. Louis, Mo.