Path: rambo.bobo.net!xs4all!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!xs4all!bullseye.news.demon.net!demon!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!global-news-master From: informer@informer.org (Rev Dennis Erlich) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Why did Dateline hit the mute button on Rinder? Date: 17 Jun 1998 11:06:27 EDT Organization: inFormer Ministry Message-ID: <358bdb91.2949986@news.concentric.net> References: <35879F6D.21D2@swbell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts034d47.lax-ca.concentric.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 Lines: 16 Xref: rambo.bobo.net alt.religion.scientology:75866 Tommy_spoogespam@xs.net: >When he started to enumerate Frank Oliver's "crimes", the editor >dumped the audio like he'd said a four-letter word, then showed Oliver's >laughable excuse for a criminal record. Doesn't this undercut what >Dateline was trying to show (the difference between Co$ PR and the >truth)? If they were trying to protect Rinder from libel charges, why? >Or did Rinder come to his senses and withdraw the statements he made >when he found out what dateline had found on this reckless lane-changer? The show had some journalistic integrity, and apparently did not want to publicize any of the OSA allegations for which Rinder had no real evidence. Hockenberry's a great interviewer.