Comments on My Scientology Blog: Scientology and the News Media

Thanks somethingnice,I took a look at "A Face in t...

2008-05-03T21:54:00.000-04:00

Thanks somethingnice,

I took a look at "A Face in the Crowd" on IMDB. It looks good. I've added it to my queue on Netflix.

On movies about the media: I would also add "A Fac...

2008-05-01T17:33:00.000-04:00

On movies about the media: I would also add "A Face in the Crowd", one of the greatest films ever made. It is still years ahead of its time. How many of us, in Patricia Neal's place, could abandon the attraction of the type of media which Andy Griffith's character represents? Do we cling to the (attractive, appealing) monster we've created (it _needs_ us to live), or do we walk away to make something better? It is an issue everyone still faces today.

Re Dana's statement "the fact is that I could go t...

2008-04-29T15:14:00.000-04:00

Re Dana's statement "the fact is that I could go to just about any church or mosque or coven and be welcomed if I were a believer. At none of those places would it be assumed that I have an automatic desire to damage the faith through doing my job."

While Dana could probably do this, there are some professions that disqualify you from various religious movements. Pig farmers aren't necessarily welcome in the more orthodox Jewish congregations, for example.

Extremely well communicated Graeme.In my experienc...

2008-04-29T11:16:00.000-04:00

Extremely well communicated Graeme.

In my experience you have demonstrated where the line is drawn perfectly.

While many people who are trying to cause harm or serve their own ends will generalize and spread the false ideas that a particular group doesn't like another group as a general rule (in this case Scientology doesn't like media people) automatically because they are a journalist or something similar... it is usually false when actually looked at closely and can be seen to be clearly over-generalized just to cause harm.

Obviously there are a multitude of cases like this visible in the media every single day - especially between different religious groups where a small number of people are trying to create tension, conflict and in some cases even war.

I applaud both Dana, for taking the time to actually investigate and find out for herself (instead of just blindly accepting what she heard) and you, for giving clear reasoning with actual proof elements one can follow up on to learn the truth for themselves.

If this was done by people in both your positions in all cases of this sort (where some person or group over-generalizes in an attempt to harm) we would all be a lot better off and this world a much saner place.

Well done both of you.

Regards,
Steve