Comments | v0rtex: Scientology vs the BBC

v0rtex

Scientology vs the BBC

May 14, 2007 23:57

BBC Panorama (the world's longest running current affairs program) recently covered Scientology. The reporter, John Sweeney, was followed by private investigators and harrassed during his investigation (including having Scientologists turn up at his wedding). At one point he eventually cracked and started yelling at the Scientologist. This clip was ( Read more... )

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the_brown_fool May 15 2007, 13:14:18 UTC

I'm in the middle of exams at the moment, so I'm basically living in a cave, so I don't know the impact at the moment. *Shakes head* it's scary isn't it? What about in the US?

v0rtex May 15 2007, 13:39:26 UTC

It's getting quite wide coverage in the nerd-media due to Scientology's use of YouTube to spread their attack video, and a couple of aggregators (Fark, Slashdot) have linked to the Sweeney apology on the BBC, or the video itself on YouTube.

Mainstream US media not sure as I've pretty much given up on it, they're most likely too busy filming cute human interest stories or telling everyone how well everything's going in Iraq... *sigh*

v0rtex May 15 2007, 13:39:54 UTC

Oh and good luck in the exams :)

mrs_spoon May 15 2007, 17:17:14 UTC

'Tis getting a fair amount of attention, pretty evenly split between "Scientology is dangerous and deserve to be shouted at"; "Scientology is dangerous and Sweeny's reaction was a result of their direct pressure on him" and "Sweeny is a terrible reporter and horribly unprofessional" with most (that I can see) coming down on the second option. I liked the programme and has been quite an interesting pre and post debate to follow.

anonymous May 16 2007, 08:01:09 UTC

Answer my fecking e-mails already >.