^^This. DO WANT! I would expect it to be in Celebrity Magazine from 2005-06, but I havent had a chance yet to see if its floating around somewhere.
August 31, 2011, 3:30 PM Scientology Strikes Back at The New Yorker By JEREMY W. PETERS The Church of Scientology is certainly no withering violet when it comes to defending itself.“The New Yorker: What A Load of Balderdash,” reads the cover headline on the church’s in-house magazine Freedom, which was being handed out for free on Wednesday outside The New Yorker’s corporate headquarters. Scientology officials have produced a 51-page glossy special issue and 3-part DVD series attacking The New Yorker over response to a 25,000-word story that painted the church as corrupt and cultish. The church goes to surprising lengths in attempting to discredit The New Yorker and its staff, naming editors, fact-checkers and others who worked on the Scientology article by name. It calls the story a “24,000-word Odyssey to Nowhere,” accuses the profile’s subject, a former Scientologist named Paul Haggis, of being a nobody and attempts to cast doubt on the author’s credibility by showing video of him speaking to a group of student journalists in which he says he is paid by the word. The church mocks The New Yorker as no better than a supermarket tabloid and even created a fake New Yorker cover with the headline “Remnick Denies Alien Baby Claim,” a dig at the magazine’s editor, David Remnick.
Media coverage so far: Scientology's Freedom Magazine Goes After The New Yorker With Gaudy Spoof – Business Insider Media Decoder Blog: Scientology Strikes Back at The New Yorker – mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com Scientologists Ape The New Yorker – mediabistro.com Scientology Strikes Back at The New Yorker – New York Times Scientologists Made a Mock New Yorker Magazine – nymag.com Scientology's Gaudy New Yorker Spoof [Magazines] – gawker.com Scientologists Handing Out Anti-New Yorker Pamphlets Outside Conde Nast Building – New York Observer
The staff of The New Yorker is probably have a lot of fun today looking at the DVD and Freedumb magazine.
Imma hoping tomorrow or the next day, we see an interview/comments from Lawrence Wright on his thoughts on it (in some other media outlet).
More: Scientologists vs. New Yorker: Parody Hits Out At Lawrence Wright (PHOTO)Huffington Post A Peek Inside the Church of Scientology's Fake New Yorker – The Atlantic Wire New Yorker dismisses attack from Church of Scientology – news.yahoo.com Scientologists Lash Out at New Yorker Over Exposé – Slate Magazine Six Months Later, Scientologists Attempt Revenge On The New Yorker, Make Pretty Magazine – mediaite.com
LOL! Tick Tock Tick Tock - Hey Miscavige - how much more will the public take of this bullshit?? How much more can your one-staff-per-org take of the humiliation??
^that Yahoo link has a response from the New Yorker... New Yorker dismisses attack from Church of Scientology – news.yahoo.com
Wow, that must hurt. Nothing worse than an alien baby claim. Also, "balderdash." They said "balderdash" lol.
An old friend has posted. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/31/scientologists-new-yorker-lawrence-wright_n_944099.html
I feel their pain but it is a good pain, all the free advertising for The New Yorker must also hurt a lot.
Yeah, lets face it - New Yorker will make money out of Scientology, we get to laugh at the clams baaawwwwing about it. Win-win.
Things that make you go hmmmm..... Will the original New Yorker article on Haggis get more web traffic than the freedom mag smearfest? Is that something we can find out via Alexis?
Yahoo News Article. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/yorker-dismisses-attack-church-scientology-214628986.html
Here is a link to Alexa with the freedom mag link set up and is showing traffic stats graphs,just add the original new yorker article at your convenience. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/freedommag.org#
Hey Scientology, while you are on a roll with all the good publicity, pointing out how the New Yorker is such a terrible publication, why don't you build on it by dressing as Nazis and parrading around Clearwater?
Does the "Freedom" rag article credit an author? I don't think so. It reads like a Miscavige speech, i.e. convoluted shit.
David Miscavige, though I have no doubt you were burning the midnight oil, ironing out the kinks, and setting the record straight with aplomb in the pressure-cooker environment of cult-leadership and expansion, it seems that a few trifles escaped your notice in the "Freedom Mag" epistle. That is to say, without further ado, some of the sentences in your "Freedom Magazine" article failed to incorporate a de rigueur tired cliche. Time to pull up your socks and move on to the straight and narrow.
This kind of shit fucking win is my personal favorite. Mama always said "go after the fact checkers after you fail at disproving the facts". WINNING.
More funny patterns 1. "Ok, lets pose as Nazis to criticize the free press. We can use our Sea Org uniforms. Anyone's irony meter going off? Mine neither" 2. "Ok, lets accuse the New Yorker of being a smear and propaganda rag. We can use "Freedom Magazine". Anyone's irony meter going off? Mine neither."
my coppery meter went off as soon as I logged in, and then I was like, "well should I really post such an awesome joke". And then I was like, "hell, yea".
I don't suppose there is a way we can renew interest in the old Haggis scientology expose in the New Yorker and make scientology look bad twice over? Oh, wait. . .
Actual quotation from Mark Warren: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/scientology-vs-catholicism-5204435
David Miscavige, ... most people had forgotten about the article, man! Now, you've given it a whole new lease of life!! The dumb - it hurts!
