Mark Edward VS Long Island Medium - Inside Edition

Susan Gerbic

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I'm tempted to include Rebecca Watson's name in this post just so maybe those people engaged in endless debates on her might just see this thread and see that something is getting done for skepticism.

Mark Edward (no relation to the Douche) will be on Inside Edition tomorrow night 11/8 (check your local listing times).

Theresa did not know anything about this, unless she found out in the last few days from her lawyers.

The Inside Edition people have told Mark that he will LOVE the show, but we won't know for sure until it is aired. This is sweeps week for TV so a great time to be showing this.

Please watch, comment, support and share. We want these TV shows to know that we want more of this kind of thing and less of the psychics.

http://www.insideedition.com/videos/861-coming-up-on-the-next-inside-edition



Also just in case you missed this, Mark was also on the Jeff Probst show on Halloween. They haven't released the full URL to the whole show, just this "teaser". http://www.jeffprobst.com/posts/2133_can_jeff_pass_as_a_psychic/index.html
 
Please post the link to the video (hope it goes online), I'll post it to Doubtful News.

Happy to see this!
 
Saw it. Liked it. And was frustrated at the end. Inside Edition did a pretty good job. My frustration does not come from anything they did. It's just frustrating when a group of people is fooled by a fake psychic and they are shown how they are fooled. But still they believe in psychics.

Ward
 
What else can you tell us Ward? I can't see it until 10pm. And that's just a maybe I will be able see it.
 
We see a lot of cold reading performed by Cavuto at her live shows. Inside Edition points out that she gets lots of things wrong live but on her TV show she always seems right. Mark Edward explains a little bit about cold reading and then demonstrates with a group of people who seem impressed. It's revealed that he is not a real psychic, but many of them still believe.

Cavuto sent a message saying that she doesn't care what they say. Her clients like her and that's good enough for her.

Ward
 
I agree. This was a good segment. Mark also did a great bit on the Jeff Probst show a couple of weeks ago. Good work Mark on getting the word out!
 
Well, Stirling and I just watched the show. WOW They gave him more time than I thought. I don't think they slammed it home like they could have.

And they didn't show Mark's book once. Or even mention it.
 
I caught the show serendipitously, and came here to see if anyone had posted about it, and found this thread.

I don't think they gave Mark enough time to explain what Cold Reading is, so I don't know that it would be clear to the average person that it was a trick.

Similarly, when they talked about "Piggyubacking" (Caputo's term for when someone in the audience other than the person she is reading claims a "hit" from one of Caputo's guesses), I don't think it was clear that "Piggybacking" is an excuse, not an actual phenomenon (where the "spirit" gives info about the wrong person).

And, although they said that Caputo gets more things wrong in a live performance than she does on her show, they did not say why that might be (editing, for one thing).

All in all though, kudos to Inside Edition for not just going along with the "she's so amazing" line.

And kudos to Mark for helping them.
 
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Thanks RSL!

Mark did what he could, they had him in New York for 4 days and was on the phone with him and by email for days before and after that.

Guess they edited out a lot.
 
Here's the article from Inside Edition's website:

The Long Island Medium – Can She Really Communicate with the Dead?
November 8, 2012
Inside Edition

She's one of the most popular reality stars on TV today. For three seasons now, Theresa Caputo, the Long Island Medium, has amazed viewers and brought people to tears by communicating messages from beyond.

"I have a very special gift. I talk to the dead," Caputo says on her hit series.

A large part of Caputo’s success comes from her own vivid personality, and the fact that she says she hears from ghosts in the strangest places, like the beauty parlor, and even at the dentist.

And sometimes, the spirits can apparently make furniture move. In one incident, a table flies/moves across the room. "I know it was Marie's grandmother that moved that table," she explained to her TV audience.
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So is the Long Island Medium really communicating with those who have passed on, or is she simply using trickery to fool the living? INSIDE EDITION decided to see what happens at her popular live readings across the country. What we saw was starkly different from what viewers see on her TV show.

On TV, she's almost always dead right, but at her live shows, we watched her strike out time and again.

Caputo asked one audience member, "Is your mom also departed?" "My mom? No, she's with us," said the audience member.

"Is your mom departed?" she asked another fan. The woman responded, "My mom? No, she's still with us."
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"I know a trick when I see one," said Mark Edward, after watching the L.I. Medium’s live show. Edward once made a living as a psychic, but he's now coming forward to reveal the secrets that he says some psychics use to convince people they really do communicate with the dead.

Edward believes one technique Theresa Caputo uses is a classic trick called "cold reading." It’s done by firing-off open-ended questions that someone in a large audience will surely relate to, like a number.

"How do you connect with the number 2? Is it the month of February? The day?" Caputo asked an audience member.

Inevitably someone raises a hand.

Later she asked, "How do you connect with the number 10, the month October? Oh, your house number is 10. Oh, I'll accept that!"
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Another technique that Caputo uses according to Edward is called "piggy-backing."

Caputo told an audience member, "We're going to piggyback here okay. This is a form of piggy-backing."

When Caputo gets something wrong, Edward says she tries to save face by saying the message from the "spirit" must have been meant for someone else.

"This is an example of piggy-backing. When the spirits piggy-back they will give me things you can't connect with but others can," Caputo said at one of her shows.

"Piggy-backing is a brilliant excuse," says Edward.
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So the next time you watch Theresa Caputo, the Long Island Medium, enjoy it for the entertainment, but you may want to take it with a giant grain of salt.

The Long Island medium, Theresa Caputo sent us a statement saying... "I respect and understand skeptics. I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone, that's not why I do what I do. I feel, and have been told by my clients, that my gift has really helped them, and that's all that matters to me."
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Full article: Inside Edition
 
Any chance of Mark Edward posting the video so we can see it? (This of course assumes Inside Edition gave him or could give him a copy.)
 
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