Last revised June 4, 1995.+lt;/i+gt;+lt;/p+gt; that I haven't listed here? Month/Day/Year.

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?
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Please note that all dates below are in US format:
Month/Day/Year.

Internet-related:

Associated Press
  

    
1/3/95: Harassment of Arnoldo Lerma
    
2/28/95: Raid on anon.penet.fi
  
BBS Magazine, 4/95: 
   excellent article by Shari Steele of Electronic Frontier Foundation
Biased Journalism, an e-zine by Shelley Thomson:
  

   
Issue 1, 2/23/95
   
Issue 2, 3/14/95
  

    Computing (UK magazine), April 1995

    Computerworld, 2/27/95

    eye (Toronto weekly), 2/23/95
Glendale (California) News-Press
   

    
Erlich raid, 2/14/95
    
editorial, 2/21/95
    

         Scientology reply to editorial, 2/24/95
    
Erlich court hearing, 2/22/95
    
More Erlich coverage, 3/3/95
   

    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
   

    

      Daniel Akst's Postcard from Cyberspace, 1/25/95
    
Erlich raid, 2/14/95
    
Erlich court hearing, 2/22/95
    

      Daniel Akst's Postcard from Cyberspace, 2/22/95
   

   .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
  

    

      Netwatch column, 1/16/95, on unauthorized cancel messages
    

      Raid on anon.penet.fi, 3/6/95
  
Washington Post
  

    

      12/25/94: Scientology harassment of defectors, journalists
    

      2/2/95: Richard Leiby CyberSurfing column
  




Finnish, Swedish, and (some) US articles on anonymous remailers


German articles on Scientology (and other cults)

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
   

      
November 1991: LA Times
         reporter describes his harassment by Scientology
      
November-December 1993:
          Robert Vaughn Young, former Scientology PR officer, tells all
   
St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
  

   

      LRH, the story of L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology
      (reprinted from LA Times), 6/24/90
   
Series on Scientology's treatment of children, 11/10-14/91:
     

      

         Part 1, on Dennis Erlich's children
      

         Response from a Scientology spokesman, regarding Erlich
      
Part 2
      
Editorial
     
   

      Arrest warrant for Scientology's private eye, 1/28/95
  
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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