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 "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" is a Time annual commodity awful analytical of Scientology that was aboriginal appear on May 6, 1991, as an eight-page awning story. Accounting by investigative journalist Richard Behar, the commodity was afterwards appear in Reader's Digest in October 1991. Behar's commodity covers capacity including: L. Ron Hubbard (pictured) and the development of Scientology, its controversies over the years and history of litigation, conflict with psychiatry and the IRS, the suicide of a Scientologist, its status as a religion, and its business dealings. Afterwards the article's publication, the Church of Scientology army a accessible relations attack to acquaint the accessible of what it acquainted were falsehoods in the piece. It took out advertisements in USA Today for twelve weeks, and Church baton David Miscavige was interviewed by Ted Koppel on Nightline about what he advised to be an cold bent by the article's author. The Church of Scientology brought a libel clothing adjoin Time Warner and Behar, and sued Reader's Digest in assorted countries in Europe in an attack to stop the article's advertisement there. The clothing adjoin Time Warner was absolved in 1996, and the Church of Scientology's address for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States in the case was denied in 2001. Behar accustomed awards in account of his plan on the article, including the Gerald Loeb Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, and the Conscience-in-Media Award. (more...) Recently featured: Kirsten Dunst – Superb Fairywren – Flower |
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