Subject: Scientology attacks 'The Hollywood Reporter'
According to the Science fiction news service of www.scifi.com, 'The Hollywood
Reporter' has been accused by CoS of calling Hubbard a hack in a report about
the upcomming film 'Battlefield Earth'.
The term did not actually appear in the report in 'The Hollywood Reporter',
but in Canada's 'National Post' who got the story from them. Somewhere
between the two the words "Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard" became "the
sci-fi hack and self-made messiah who founded the Church of Scientology."
The original story can be found here:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?1999-01/21/16.36.film
CoS seems determined to stamp out any possible bad publicity for Scientology
relating to this new film, but pissing off major trade papers like that isn't
going to help them.