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anti-psychiatry • church of scientology international (csi) • citizens commission on human rights (cchr) • cult awareness network (can) (earlier form, citizen's freedom foundation) • david miscavige • eli lilly • food and drug administration (fda) • heber c. jentzsch • internal revenue service (irs) • joseph wesbecker • l. ron hubbard's credentials • lsd • lawrence "larry" wollersheim • lawsuit • martin sorrell • methadone • mitchell e. daniels • prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) • richard behar • scientology: the thriving cult of greed and power (article) • time magazine • tax matter • usa today • wpp group • wall street journal
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Nov 9, 2009
Travoltas have 'own way' of coping after death of son — USA Today
Jun 30, 2005
The press vs. Scientology — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s): Joe Strupp
Source: Salon
After years of conflict, the church and the media seem to have reached a truce. Is it because Scientology has become less confrontational — or because the press is scared? For anyone interested in the Church of Scientology, the May 6, 1991, issue of Time magazine remains a milestone in news coverage. For those who back the church, it ran an outrageously biased account that eventually led to a libel suit by the church — later dismissed — and prompted Scientology ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 11, 2002
Church of Scientology pays $8.6M in legal dispute — USA Today
Type: Press
Source: USA Today
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Church of Scientology has agreed to pay a former member more than $8.6 million to resolve a lawsuit filed nearly 22 years ago. In his 1980 lawsuit, Lawrence Wollersheim accused the church of causing him to develop bipolar disorder and to contemplate suicide. A jury in 1986 awarded him $30 million, an amount reduced on appeal to $2.5 million and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1994. Church officials on Thursday handed over a check for ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 20, 1993
Advertising // Church of Scientology to launch campaign to improve its image — Wall Street Journal
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Laura Bird
Source: Wall Street Journal
The Church of Scientology, having just won tax-exempt status, after a bitter, decades-long battle with the Internal Revenue Service, is now ready to take on media critics in a major promotional campaign to try to mend its public image. Early this month, the Internal Revenue Service notified 30 entities within the Church of Scientology hierarchy that they would be recognized as tax-exempt organizations, whose donation income isn't subject to federal income tax. Church officials hailed the decision, saying it would allow ...
Oct 14, 1993
Papers detail church's finances — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com, link
Type: Press
Author(s): David Dahl, Karl Vick
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The Church of Scientology, freed of its income tax obligations by the IRS this month, is spending $114-million to preserve the voluminous writings of deceased founder L. Ron Hubbard, the group says in newly released documents. The works will be etched into steel plates and printed in book form on natural cotton and linen fabric, according to documents. Some will be stocked in an underground vault in California that is designed, Scientologists hope, to protect the writings during a nuclear war. ...
Jun 15, 1992
Scientologist suit KO'd — The National Law Journal
Type: Press
Source: The National Law Journal
The Church of Scientology says it will appeal a federal judge's decision to dismiss its lawsuit against an executive at the Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly & Co., the maker of Prozac. The suit claimed Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. maligned the church in comments published in USA Today's. The Arlington, Va.-based newspaper was not named in the suit.
May 30, 1992
Suit filed by Scientology church is dismissed — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
INDIANAPOLIS — A federal judge in Arlington, Va., on Friday dismissed a $20-million libel lawsuit that the Church of Scientology had filed against an executive with Eli Lilly & Co., the maker of Prozac. The lawsuit accused Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., a vice president of the Indianapolis-based pharmaceuticals company, of maligning the church in comments published in USA Today. The newspaper was not named as a defendant. The church believes that Prozac, an antidepressant, is unsafe and can lead to suicidal ...
Feb 4, 1992
Suit says Lilly exec 'maligned' church
Sep 25, 1991
Advertisement: Abuses, misconduct, special favors – LA IRS — USA Today
Sep 4, 1991
Scientology takes on IRS — Wall Street Journal
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Wall Street Journal
The Church of Scientology, which is already bashing Time magazine in full-page salvos, has taken its long-running squabble with the Internal Revenue Service public, running full-page ads in USA Today to enlist anti-IRS allies. An ad that ran yesterday shows a screaming young girl and carries the headline, "Don't you kill my Daddy!" Ad copy discusses a situation in which "a band of armed IRS agents" allegedly tried to choke an Idaho man, as well as other alleged IRS abuses. Yesterday's ...
Jul 31, 1991
[Advertisement] I am a Scientologist — USA Today
Jul 21, 1991
The two sides of Scientology — Indianapolis Star (Indiana)
Jul 19, 1991
Former member of sect is suing — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Kevin Shinkle
Source: Tampa Tribune (Florida)
CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology is facing another lawsuit in the midst of an expensive nationwide campaign to bolster its image. The sect, which maintains its spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, has spent millions of dollars in recent weeks for advertising in the newspaper USA Today. In the lawsuit, a former sect member claims the church is a fraud; owes him money for counseling services he never used; and has cut him off from his two daughters, who still follow Scientology. ...
Jun 27, 1991
Letterline // Comments from readers across the USA — USA Today
More: link
Type: Press
Source: USA Today
Appalled by ads: I find it appalling that USA TODAY continues to run outrageous, full-page ads paid for by the Church of Scientology. By continuing to run these ads, USA TODAY is aiding and abetting a very vicious and greedy cult — Scientology. Jim Beebe Warrenville, Ill. Enjoys the ads: I have been a Scientologist since 1979. I totally enjoy the ads currently running in USA TODAY. I like your editorials, and wish you continued success and prosperity. ''Nancy Rose Los ...
Jun 21, 1991
'Time' squabble / Scientology adds WPP units to attack [exact date unknown] — Advertising Age
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Gary Levin
Source: Advertising Age
NEW YORK—WPP Group's Hill & Knowlton, the giannt public relations agency charged with generating favorable images for clients, is having public relations problems of its own. The latest controversy surfaced last month, when the agency was forced to resign the $2 million Church of Scientology International account a week after a May 6 Time cover story labeled the church a "cult of greed" that had bilked its followers of millions of dollars. The church quickly began an ad campaign in ''USA ...
Jun 20, 1991
[Advertising] The aims of Scientology — USA Today
Jun 19, 1991
Scientology group strikes back at Time magazine — Associated Press
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Rick Hampson
Source: Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Some subjects of unflattering magazine profiles are content to write a letter to the editor or cancel their subscription. The Church of Scientology, pilloried in Time as "The Cult of Greed," is fighting back with a $3 million ad campaign. After several weeks of taking out full-page color ads in USA Today, the church has released a glossy, 28-page booklet that purports to refute Time's charges and expose its motivation for the May 6 cover story. Titled ...
Jun 18, 1991
[Advertising] The vital statistics of Scientology — USA Today
More: link
Jun 17, 1991
[Advertisement] The true story of Scientology — USA Today
Jun 15, 1991
Scientology fires ad barrage at 'Time' [exact date unknown] — Advertising Age
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Scott Donston
Source: Advertising Age
The Church of Scientology International last week unleashed an estimated $2 million media blitz against Time in response to the magazine's May 6 cover article labeling the church a "cult of greed." The organization on May 28 broke a series of page color ads in Gannett Co.'s USA Today accusing Time of giving favorable coverage to Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, LSD and Prozac. Although the use of advertising for rebuttals isn't uncommon, rarely are such campaigns as prolonged and pricey. The ...
Jun 14, 1991
Advertisement: Who controls what gets printed in Time magazine? — USA Today
Jun 13, 1991
[Advertisement] Who controls what foods and drugs the public may consume? — USA Today
Jun 12, 1991
[Advertisement] A History of Human Misery? — USA Today
Jun 11, 1991
Prozac's critics hurt mentally ill — USA Today
More: link
Type: Press
Source: USA Today
Prozac, a commonly prescribed anti-depression drug made by Eli Lilly and Co., has been under attack from the Church of Scientology and lawyers who have developed the so-called "Prozac defense" — blaming the drug for their clients behavior. They and some former users charge that the drug causes bizarre mental side effects and can lead to suicide. ''Mitchell Daniels, Eli Lilly's vice president for corporate affairs, defended the drug and attacked the attackers Monday in a meeting with USA Today's editorial ...
Jun 11, 1991
[Advertisement] What U.S. Drug Company Pleaded Guilty to 10 Charges of Concealing Evidence from the F.D.A. — USA Today
Jun 10, 1991
[Advertisement] What magazine gets it wrong in 1991? — USA Today
Jun 7, 1991
[Advertisement] What U.S. Drug Company Produced a Drug Named After Adolf Hitler? — USA Today
Jun 6, 1991
In battle against Time, Scientologists put money on ads — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob Sipchen
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Last June, the Los Angeles Times published a damning series on the Church of Scientology. Scientologists responded by extracting a few good things the writers had to say about their organization and putting those quotes in foot-high letters on billboards all over town. On May 6 of this year, Time magazine published a cover story on Scientology. It had even fewer good things to say, and now the church has responded with an even more aggressive counterattack. Scientology's campaign of daily ...
Jun 6, 1991
[Advertisement] "Painkiller" — USA Today
Jun 5, 1991
[Advertisement] What U.S. Drug Company produced heroin and LSD? — USA Today
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