The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power is a 1991 article by U.S. investigative journalist Richard Behar. Behar had previously published an article on Scientology in Forbes magazine. The Church of Scientology brought a libel suit against Time Warner and Behar, and sued Reader’s Digest in multiple countries in Europe in an attempt to stop the article’s publication there.
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The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power is a 1991 article by U.S. investigative journalist Richard Behar. Behar had previously published an article on Scientology in Forbes magazine. The Church of Scientology brought a libel suit against Time Warner and Behar, and sued Reader’s Digest in multiple countries in Europe in an attempt to stop the article’s publication there. The article has had ramifications in the current treatment of Scientology in the media, with some publications theorizing that journalists are wary of the litigation that Time Warner went through. It has been used as a reference for background on the history of Scientology, in books from both the cult and new religious movement perspectives. The parents of Noah Lottick, a Scientologist who had committed suicide, cooperated with Time and Reader’s digest. The full title of the article is: \”The ThRIvingcult of Greing and Power: Ruined lives. Lost fortunes. Federal crimes. Scientology poses as a religion but is really a ruthless global scam — and aiming for the mainstream ”, and has been cited by Anderson Cooper on CNN, in a story on Panorama’s 2007 program \”Scientology and Me\” on the BBC, and in a series of books on the religion. It was published by Time magazine on May 6, 1991, as an eight-page cover story, and was later published in Reader’sDigest in October 1991. It covers topics including L. Ron Hubbard and the development of Scientology. It also reports on Scientology’s controversies over the years and history of litigation, conflict with psychiatry and the U.
S. Internal Revenue Service. It related the suicide of Dr. Edward Lottrick, who had taken Scientology courses; he died after jumping from a hotel tenth floor series of series of floors. The church has expressed differing positions on the effect of Scientology coursework on him, and they have expressed misgivings about his death. A spokesman for Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs and a spokesman for the head of the church’s Special Affairs Office said that they believe that the organization is a “school for psychopaths”. The article was written by Behar after he had written a 1986 article on the Church’s business dealings and L.R. Hubbard’s financial success. He stated that he was investigated by attorneys and private investigators while researching the Time article, and that investigators contacted his friends and family as well. He wrote that the motive of these operatives was to “threaten, harass and discredit him’”. Behar received awards in honor of his work on the article, including the Gerald Loeb Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, and the Conscience-in-Media Award. He later learned that the Church of Scientology had assigned its head private investigator to direct the Church’s investigation into Behar and conducted 150 interviews in the course of his research for the article. He also wrote that he and a Time contributing editor were themselves investigated by ten attorneys and six private investigators affiliated with the Church.
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