The Church of Scientology has its press list all mixed up. We got an email through today asking us to edit an article about Janet Reitman's new expose of the group, Inside Scientology.
"You posted today a story," the spokesperson Karin Pouw begins. We're told Reitman's book is full of errors which our writer "omitted to mention". TechEye also has Scientology's official response so that it's available to our readers.
The problem is a search on TechEye reveals that the last time Scientology was mentioned was on the 27th January this year, when Anonymous members were arrested and we mentioned its operations protesting Scientology. In passing.
"Our" writer, David Konow, who we would probably hire not fire, actually works for TG Daily. His news story is here.
We won't, then, be publishing Scientology's official response because it's not relevant and our readers are not interested.
Scientology is a criminal cult... and no amount of PR can change that.
Reitman's book must be really threatening to the cult if they feel it necessary to spread black PR far and wide.
I wonder if Karin Pouw is padding her stats by sending out her form letters to every news outlet on the planet?
Nice work, ScientLOLogy, keep up the footbullets!
Since they said much the same thing, "full of inaccuracies, didn't interview Scientology officials" and so on, it's a good bet the reviewers were Scientology stooges jumping the gun.
With this level of arrogance and carelessness, it's little wonder Anonymous chose to target them. Scientology vs Anonymous has shown that the cult is utterly unprepared to do battle online, and incapable of fully realizing how creepy they seem to the general public.
Regardless, the online war against Scientology is just a training routine for the really serious business ahead. And we thank them for that.
Funny article. Thanks for the chuckles.