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The Fresh Air Interview: Church of Scientology, Fact-Checked

The Fresh Air Interview: Church of Scientology, Fact-Checked

How the Internet Gets Inside Us

How the Internet Gets Inside Us

The Fresh Air Interview: Church of Scientology, Fact-Checked

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Interview with The New Yorker’s Lawrence Wright on his Paul Haggis vs. Scientology story. “GROSS: There was a meeting that you refer to in your article about Scientology, where people from the New Yorker staff met with representatives from Scientology. What was this meeting about? Mr. WRIGHT: That was one of the most amazing days of my life. I had been out to Los Angeles to interview Tommy Davis over the Memorial Day weekend. And when he finally did come to meet with me, he said that he had decided not to talk to me. But I asked him if he would agree at least to, you know, to respond to our fact-checking queries about the church. And he agreed to that. And over a period of time, we sent them 971 fact-checking queries, which alarmed them.”

Source: NPR
Published: Feb 9, 2011
Length: 11 minutes (2,947 words)

The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology

The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology

The Great Afghan Bank Heist

The Great Afghan Bank Heist

Show the Monster: Guillermo del Toro's Quest To Get Amazing Creatures Onscreen

Show the Monster: Guillermo del Toro’s Quest To Get Amazing Creatures Onscreen

Does Football Have a Future? The NFL and the Concussion Crisis

Does Football Have a Future? The NFL and the Concussion Crisis

Don't Look Back: Republican Congressman Darrell Issa Can Explain His Past

Don’t Look Back: Republican Congressman Darrell Issa Can Explain His Past

The Constitution and Its Worshippers

The Constitution and Its Worshippers

However much the book was revised, it should have been revised more. The opening may have been reworked, as Gedin says, but it still features an episode—somebody telling somebody else at length (twelve pages!) about a series of financial crimes peripheral to the main plot—that, by wide consensus, is staggeringly boring. Elsewhere, there are blatant violations of logic and consistency. Loose ends dangle. There are vast dumps of unnecessary detail. When Lisbeth goes to IKEA, we get a list of every single thing she buys. The jokes aren’t funny. The dialogue could not be worse. The phrasing and the vocabulary are consistently banal.