Newspaper & Magazine articles on Scientology
Newspaper & Magazine articles on Scientology
This page created by Ron Newman .
Last revised June 4, 1995.
Have you read a recent newspaper or magazine article on Scientology
that I haven't listed here?
Tell me about it!
Please note that all dates below are in US format:
Month/Day/Year.
Internet-related:
Associated Press
BBS Magazine, 4/95 :
excellent article by Shari Steele of Electronic Frontier Foundation
Biased Journalism , an e-zine by Shelley Thomson:
Computing (UK magazine), April 1995
Computerworld, 2/27/95
eye (Toronto weekly), 2/23/95
Glendale (California) News-Press
Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki, Finland), 2/18/95, on anon.penet.fi raid
Independent (London newspaper), 3/3/95
Internet & Comms Today (UK magazine), by Joel Furr, April 1995
Internet World, April 1995
Los Angeles Times
.net magazine (UK), April 1995
Network World, 2/20/95 , by Adam Gaffin
New Scientist (UK magazine)
2/18/95 ,
on forged cancellations and the Lazarus program
3/11/95 , on controversies involving anonymity on the Net
(including both Dennis Erlich's case and anon.penet.fi)
3/18/95 ,
on newsgroup flooding, kill-files, and my Web page
4/29/95 ,
on Scientology's "outing" of critic TarlaStar
Philadelphia Inquirer
2/1/95 on threats to anonymous remailers
4/1/95 on Erlich case
Sacramento (California) Bee editorial on anon.penet.fi raid, 3/12/95
San Francisco Chronicle, 3/2/95, on Erlich case
San Jose Mercury, 2/22/95, on Erlich court hearing
Scottsdale (Arizona) Tribune, 3/18/95: Internet users demonstrate against CoS
St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, 8/3/94. This was probably the first
newspaper article published anywhere about alt.religion.scientology.
Time magazine
Washington Post
Not Internet-related:
Akron Beacon Journal, 9/2/93 : Dental assistants fired for
refusing Scientology recruitment
Alex. Cockburn in New Stateman (UK magazine), 11/27/92 : Eli Lilly, Prozac
Evening Argus (UK newspaper) 4/12/94 : harassment of Jon Atack
FOCUS (German magazine) interview with Vaughn & Stacy Young ,
former high-ranking Scientology officials. 12/12/94. Translated into English.
Los Angeles Times series of June 24-29, 1990
(24 articles, in compressed text .Z file format)
Mother Jones article on Scientology in Russia, March-April 1993,
plus several letters to the editors in subsequent issues
My Life as a Celebrity Scientologist , by Harmon Leon, from
the Dallas (Texas) weekly newspaper the Met , 2/16/95
Punch magazine, 2/19/88 : Russell Miller on being
sued by Scientology over his LRH biography
Quill Magazine
St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Time Magazine, 5/6/91 :
Famous cover story, "Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power",
by Richard Behar
Wall Street Journal, 3/22/95:
Scientology and Allstate Insurance Co.
Willamette Week (Portland, Oregon)
interview with Dennis Erlich, late September 1991
Weekly Mail & Guardian (South
Africa) ,
11/4/94: Scientology infiltrates Inkatha Freedom Party
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