Your good television schedule warned us as to the intent of the semi-dervishes running public television in Maine. Have they no shame? Is decency dead? Can that fetid excuse for educational television inflict us with “The Best of Begging” and tag it as programming?

Some of us recall when Channel 12 used to provoke thinking instead of disgust. Maine residents deserve better than this.

I’m a great-grandfather and I can recall when much better than this was offered. Maine can do better; please, let us all prove it by demanding better.

David A. Richards

Dover-Foxcroft