| Details of a legal spanking of $cientology from the Village Voice. |
[02 Jul 2008|12:39pm] |
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Yeah, I know this is mostly unfunnybusiness, but there is enough LULZ-worthy in this article that I thought it would be worth excerpting here.
Scientology's Crushing Defeat
A previously unpublished saga of an $8 million check Six years ago, when I was a reporter at New Times LA, I’d written several stories about Scientology (Los Angeles is one of its headquarters), and I was about to uncork the longest one yet—a 7,000 word piece about an embarrassing, $8 million defeat Scientology had just suffered, when the weekly paper suddenly folded.
That unpublished story has been sitting in storage ever since. Fast forward to 2008, and the world of reporting on Scientology has changed radically, thanks in part to the lunacy of Tom Cruise, but also in part to a worldwide, leaderless movement that calls itself Anonymous. Ravenous for any information about L. Ron Hubbard’s strange organization, Anonymous scours the world for the least tidbit about Scientology.
Well, here was a pretty meaty morsel just sitting in my hard drive. It’s still a substantial bit of reporting, and it fills in some gaps in the historical record of one of the most humiliating court losses Scientology has ever suffered.
For the original story (What Scientology Paid $8 Million To Hide), which is still quite topical after six years and required only a little updating, click on the link in the title.
ETA: The article proper seems to have disappeared from the Village Voice site. However, one can still read it in the Google Cache--linky.
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