{"id":773,"date":"2009-01-30T08:03:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T12:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2009-01-30T08:03:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T12:03:30","slug":"scientology-from-inside-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2009\/01\/30\/scientology-from-inside-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientology From Inside Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"date\">\n<p>January 29, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4870\" title=\"quill1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rushprnews.com\/press\/wp-content\/2009\/01\/quill1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"200\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft alignnone size-medium wp-image-4871\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"quill2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rushprnews.com\/press\/wp-content\/2009\/01\/quill2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em> Robert Vaughn Young<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A former insider reveals strategies for managing the news media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Robert Vaughn Young<\/p>\n<p><strong>LOS ANGELES (RushPRnews) 01\/29\/09<\/strong>-They say the first step in any recovery program is the admission, so here it is: I handled public relations (PR) and the media for L. Ron Hubbard and his Scientology empire for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Copyright Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is no accident that I avoid saying \u201cChurch of Scientology\u201d \u2014 the trademarked corporate name. The Scientology world is much larger than merely the \u201cChurch\u201d of Scientology (see [sidebar] \u201cSecular,\u201d p. 40). It is a labyrinth of corporate shells that, like a hall of mirrors, was designed to baffle all but the initiated. Add to that an arcane language and dedicated \u201cPRs\u201d trained to divert and control inquiries, and it becomes obvious why few outsiders have been able to comprehend the Scientology hydra, let alone write about it. I hope this will make it easier.<\/p>\n<p>From 1969 to 1989, I worked at every echelon of the organization, from a small, new \u201cmission\u201d up to national and then international level, including handling media in other countries and working at Hubbard\u2019s personal literary agency. During my tenure, I handled reporters from high school papers and from The New York Times. I have appeared as a Scientology spokesman on radio talk shows and national TV news, as well as in magazines, books, and even a documentary film. I was a member of the Guardian\u2019s Office, the pseudo-naval Sea Organization, and the glitzy Author Services Inc., Hubbard\u2019s literary agency in downtown Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushprnews.com\/2009\/01\/29\/scientology-from-inside-out\/\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 29, 2009 Robert Vaughn Young A former insider reveals strategies for managing the news media by Robert Vaughn Young LOS ANGELES (RushPRnews) 01\/29\/09-They say the first step in any recovery program is the admission, so here it is: I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2009\/01\/30\/scientology-from-inside-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}