Browne wrong again- John Slayton

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

Even if she doesn't get an e-mail update beforehand, she'll get briefed in the waiting room and overhear talk in the hallways, from prompters and directors, not to mention the summary movies about the case which she basically repeated back to them.

I have something to say about that.

I've been hitting Lexis Nexis again and one thing repeatedly jumps out at me: the number of times Montel interrupts a guest who wants to talk to Sylvia to have them explain all about the missing person's or homicide case, after which Sylvia systematically repeats that information back to them.

He does this all the time. All the time. Paraphrasing here:

"Now back up, explain this- for the audience, not for Sylvia- your mother was being abused by your stepfather before she was found dead and they were sure it was him, correct?"

"Now let's go back, your son was just out of jail and was beating heroin and you thought he was back on it, is that right?"

"Just so everyone knows what happened, your daughter's father's friend was suspected but he committed suicide a few months ago, is that true?"


Sylvia doesn't need to hot-read: Montel cold reads for her! And even if he didn't, the information in the video segment gives it all away. She's not even relaying on classic one-on-one cold reading.

You can pick apart everything Sylvia says to the bare threads. Not even bare threads. You can deconstruct it to a perfect zero.