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From: inFormer@informer.org (Rev Dennis Erlich)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: A&E on Scientology: **
Date: 15 Dec 1998 08:23:20 PST
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drv1@concentric.net (David Voth):

martinh@islandnet.com (Martin Hunt)
>>Two stars out of five. It's not that I don't agree with the
>>"unbiased" method of reporting on the cult in which each
>>"side" is given equal time and attention; the Scientologists
>>generally come off as evasive, spaced-out, and brutish anyway.

david
>The Scientologists interviewed were mostly professional actors and
>slicko "suits".  The critics did very well.  I thought Dennis looked
>particularly good.

   Thanks.  I haven't seen it, but I usually hate the way I look in
these interviews.

>>What I object to is Kurtis' reporting accuracy, which was
>>very low. On the good side, there wasn't very much of it.
>>On the bad side, what there was was generally wrong in terms
>>of facts and figures. 
>
>I gagged when they qouted Scientology's "8 million" figure for
>membership, then mentioned that some think it's more like 300k, then
>stated that CoS is the world's fastest-growing "religion" with no
>facts or figures to back that up.  And the L. Ron Hubbard "Indiana
>Jones in real life" nonsense.

   No doubt contractual.

>>Apart from this general criticism, it was great; the critics
>>got their message across quite well... <snip>
>
>Agreed.  Certainly no damage done to the critics.

   That's great.

   Rev Dennis Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
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