More on Anderson Cooper from the NY Times: "Mr. Cooper has long been regarded as the strongest host at CNN, but his show has suffered badly as well. For the quarter, Mr. Cooper dropped 42 percent in viewers and 46 percent among the 25-to-54-year-old audience that the news channels use for their sales to advertisers." (CNN Fails to Stop Fall in Ratings).
And, by contrast, from the same article: "... Greta Van Susteren’s show was up 25 percent from a year earlier."
9:14 AM
A small handful of ex-members of the Church of Scientology have been getting some attention in the media recently.
When you take "that species of journalist whose interest is more in sensational copy than in an objective statement of the truth."1 and you connect them up with the noisiest of ex-members, each of whom is "likely to be suggestible and ready to enlarge or embellish his grievance"1, you will understand why the resultant media attention occurs.
Of course, the truth is nowhere near as entertaining as the fictional accounts of a disgruntled ex-member who "acts from a personal motivation to vindicate himself and to regain his self-esteem, by showing himself to have been first a victim but subsequently to have become a redeemed crusader."1
Courts and other official investigators ignore the testimony of such people because it is well known that ex-members "always act out of a scenario that vindicates themselves by shifting responsibility for their actions to the religious group."1
Of course, not all ex-members have complaints. In fact, the majority have been found by sociologists to harbor no ill-will against their former faith and because of this, ex-members with an axe to grind have been given the name "apostates" to differentiate them from the benign majority of ex-members.
"Scientology Ex-Members"
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Outstanding post - and definitely is right to the point with the ex-members that were featured on AC360.
1:55 PM
Hey turbotad,
I agree.
And regarding the AC360 show here is something you may find interesting: Anderson Cooper’s Last Gasp
12:23 PM
More on Anderson Cooper from the NY Times: "Mr. Cooper has long been regarded as the strongest host at CNN, but his show has suffered badly as well. For the quarter, Mr. Cooper dropped 42 percent in viewers and 46 percent among the 25-to-54-year-old audience that the news channels use for their sales to advertisers." (CNN Fails to Stop Fall in Ratings).
And, by contrast, from the same article: "... Greta Van Susteren’s show was up 25 percent from a year earlier."
9:14 AM