The committee discussed the planned broadcast schedule of Channel 1 for 2003-2002, which includes, among other things, the mysticism program "Believe it or not", which was supposed to host astrologers, numerologists, coffee readers and chirologists who would answer the viewers' questions. The member of the committee, Dr. Ilan Asia, expressed his opposition to the broadcast of this type of program on public broadcasting because it encourages irrational thinking, and his position was accepted
25.8.2002
Anat Balint reports in the gallery section of "Haaretz" that Channel 1 will not broadcast programs on mysticism, as the Broadcasting Authority's television committee decided at its meeting last Thursday. The committee discussed the planned broadcast schedule of Channel 1 for 2003-2002, which includes, among other things, the mysticism program "Believe it or not", which was supposed to host astrologers, numerologists, coffee readers and chirologists who would answer the viewers' questions. The member of the committee, Dr. Ilan Asia, expressed his opposition to the broadcast of this type of program on public broadcasting because it encourages irrational thinking, and his position was accepted.
Dr. Asia said after the meeting: "If the public channel also deals with matters of mysticism, a trend that has prevailed in Israeli society in recent years, it will encourage the public to return to the Middle Ages. This is a phenomenon that shifts the responsibility from the person to fate or to the coffee, and it is the basis for the cultural destruction of our society."
