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Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Much like everything else in our debt-ridden economy, the media has hit hard times. Papers have folded, fired staff, or been sold. This leaves news markets with fewer papers and less investigative reporting. Amidst this glum report comes another trend worth discussing. As the mainstream media centralizes its overall presence in a few organizations, some papers left standing have been acquired by organizations...
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Religion News Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Independent senator Nick Xenophon last week said correspondence from former members had implicated the church in a range of crimes, including forced imprisonment, coerced abortions, intimidation and blackmail. Eight letters from former members of the church were tabled in parliament, including one from Paul David Schofield, who said his toddler daughter Lauren fell down some stairs to her death after...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | yesterday
A man who blames the Church of Scientology for his brother's suicide added his voice Monday to calls for an Australia Senate inquiry into the religion.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
A man who blames the Church of Scientology for his brother's suicide added his voice Monday to calls for an Australia Senate inquiry into the religion.
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Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O'Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston's waterfront was unusually tight. Anybody who was not a member...
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Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Even for a religion started by a science fiction writer, the allegations levelled against the Church of Scientology in federal parliament this week sound stranger than fiction. Blackmail, cover-ups of child abuse, labour camps, embezzlement and coerced abortions are spelled...
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whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
“..Hollywood figures quit ‘rip-off’ church .. as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston’s waterfront was unusually tight. Anybody who was not a member of the city’s bar association was swept with a search wand. Photo IDs were [...]...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
For three days leading up to soldier Edward McBride's suicide, his family say he was bombarded by telephone calls and texts from Church of Scientology members.
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The Age (Free subscription) | yesterday
For three days leading up to soldier Edward McBride's suicide, his family say he was bombarded by telephone calls and texts from Church of Scientology members.
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The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | yesterday
For the three days leading up to soldier Edward McBride's suicide, his family say he was bombarded by telephone calls and texts from Church of Scientology members.
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Celebritology (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Headlines: Martha Stewart apologizes for dissing Rachael Ray... Brangelina gave $6.4 million to charity in 2008... the same year, Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett-Smith gave $70,000 to Scientology groups... ABC flooded with complaints about Adam Lambert's AMA performance; citing artistic freedom, Lambert remains unapologetic... J.Lo says her AMA fall was intentional... Courteney Cox set to return to...
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Saber Point (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Other McCain today has a post about South Park's latest episode, featuring Eric Cartman singing his lamentations over the rising tide of immigrant minorities to the United States. I watched the episode over the weekend at the South Park website . I have noticed that South Park appears to be titling leftward politically over the past few episodes. This is after years of tilting right -- there was...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. Why Tapping a Non-Business Journalist to Edit BusinessWeek Just Might Make Sense (The Big Money) Marion Menaker: Last week Josh Tyrangiel was named the new editor of BusinessWeek as the publication completes the transition in ownership from McGraw-Hill to Bloomberg. His appointment represents the passing of financial media from the...
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Death By 1000 Papercuts (Free subscription) | yesterday
Caylee Anthony Library of DBKP Stories UPDATED: November 23, 2009. August 26 2008: Caylee Anthony Media Circus: Giovanni Gonzalez Gets No Media Attention - DBKP This Week in Crime Sept 12 2008: Caylee Anthony: Thirty Quotes From the Caylee Anthony Case October 20 2008: Caylee Anthony, No Body Crime Convictions: Tom Capano, Hans Resier - DBKP This Week in Crime November 6 2008: The Caylee Anthony Case:...
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DealBook (Free subscription) | yesterday
Managers of The St. Petersburg Times, which has published a series of scathing articles on Scientology, announced Friday that it would sell one of its sibling publications to a California media company whose top management are Scientologists.