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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: WPXI CANCELS SCIENTOLOGY
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dst+@cs.cmu.edu (Dave Touretzky)

>WPXI TV (channel 11) is the NBC affiliate station in Pittsburgh.  This past
>Sunday I noticed they ran a 15 second PSA (Public Service Announcement) for
>The Way to Happiness Foundation.
>
>I called their programming department and told them that The Way to Happiness
>Foundation was a front for the cult of Scientology.  They said they'd look
>into it.  I replied that I wanted to pursue this to see the matter resolved,
>and they promised to get back to me.
>
>A few hours later, they called me back and said my claim had checked out, and
>they were cancelling the PSA.  (They actually had two separate spots, and
>were cancelling both of them.)
>
>I then called two other network affiliates in Pittsburgh, KDKA (CBS) and
>WTAE (ABC).  Neither was running or had recently run any spots for Way to
>Happiness, Narconon, Dianetics, or the Church of Scientology.  I told them
>that WPXI had just ditched a PSA for Way to Happiness, and I was concerned
>that the Church might try to move its PSA to one of the other stations.  One
>of the folks I spoke with said they had seen a Way to Happiness PSA on one
>of the cable channels, possibly CNN.  They were *not* going to run any
>Scientology stuff on their station.
>
>I followed up these phone conversations by sending a little info kit
>containing copies of the 1991 Time article, a Scientology bibliography, some
>pages from the "What is Scientology?" book revealing the connection to Way
>to Happiness and Narconon, last month's Washington Post article by Mark
>Fisher with the Xenu/OT III story, and a few other items.
>
>I'm not done yet: I still have to contact the Fox affiliate and some
>independent stations, and then repeat the whole thing with the local radio
>stations.  But I'm pleased at how nice everyone has been, and how easy it is
>to vaccinate the media against cult propaganda.
>
>No more free advertising for the cult in the Pittsburgh media.  None!
>
>--
>-- Dave Touretzky, KoX (SP4):  copyright scofflaw lurking under The Bridge.
>   L. Ron Hubbard sez: "DON'T YOU DARE read http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman"

    Dave,

    That's perfect.  I've done the same thing with LA Stations.
    They're always very happy to cooperate once they know who
    they've been dealing with.

    These kind of actions in every town and sphere of influence
    will surgically remove the cancerous cult from society.

    It will be well worth the effort if we can avoid a Waco/Jonestown
    type confrontation.  Don't you think?

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           Rev. Dennis L Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
      dennis.l.erlich@support.com  +  inForm@primenet.com
                           "tar baby"