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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChurch of Scientology desperately trashes documentary
http://www.alternet.org/media/6-desperate-ways-church-scientology-trying-stop-going-clear"Going Clear" is documentary wherein several Ex-Scientologists are interviewed about their experiences in the Church of Scientology.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4257858/
The CoS meanwhile is none too happy with the existence of this movie:
1. Buying a Super-Bowl ad that praised the E-meter as the fusion of science and religion into a "spiritual technology".
2. When asked to respond to 20 questions about the movie for an article, instead of answering them, the CoS responded with a 5-page hit-piece calling everybody in the movie a liar.
3. The CoS produced a mini-series of "documentaries", calling everybody in the movie a liar.
4. Buying Google Ads to intercept people looking for info about the movie.
5. Starting a media-watchdog organization with the sole purpose of trashing the movie. ("Horrible score. Like nails on a chalkboard."
6. Buying a full-page ad in the NYT, how this movie is just like Rolling Stone's sloppy reporting on the UVA rape.
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Church of Scientology desperately trashes documentary (Original Post)
DetlefK
Mar 2015
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MADem
(135,425 posts)1. Great job!! Love how they remind people (like me) that I do want to watch that documentary!
I saw an ad for it a few weeks ago and said to myself "I do want to see that..." and now, thanks to these twits, I'm reminded that, yes, I DO want to see that!!
samsingh
(17,602 posts)2. i want to watch this documentary and get the book
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)3. Thanks. I hadn't heard of this.