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HATE WATCH
Leah Remini’s stated intention is to strip Scientologists of their First Amendment rights and to destroy Scientology.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
If you won’t believe the Church of Scientology when it says Leah Remini is lying, perhaps you’ll believe Marty Rathbun, who has been attacking Scientology for years.
ANTI-RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA
It’s an eye-opener to discover that Leah Remini’s “Premath” had an entirely different script. Before Remini unleashed a salvo of abuse and hatred against her former religion on her now dead-and-buried “Aftermath” show, she held the opposite position.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
The loss in viewership, attributed to A&E’s cancellation of its police show, Live PD, exposed a suppurating inoperable tumor in the network’s gut: a penchant for bigotry, violence and sensationalism. That penchant spawned an ultimately fatal addiction to shows featuring crime on the one hand, while whitewashing discrimination and hatred of minority religions on the other.
MEDIA & ETHICS
Juvenal, the ancient Roman poet, had a phrase for it: “Bread and circuses.” By that he meant keep the rabble distracted from their woes with entertainment of the grossest kind .
MEDIA & ETHICS
It’s obvious why journalists are wary of those who offer to trade information for profit— such people are all too likely to say what they think the person paying them wants to hear, regardless of the truth. Put in cruder terms than in the SPJ’s Code: “You get what you pay for.”
MEDIA & ETHICS
As a sad testimony to the bloodthirstiness of a portion of America’s viewing public, Remini’s show had a few people watching for a while. But the viewers had a short attention span for eavesdropping on an obsessed actress piously peddling her pet peeves and have moved on. The ratings have tanked.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
How Disney feels comfortable coming down on that side of the fence is beyond me. Apparently, their real values are not family values.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Think for yourself. And trust your “thou-dost-protest-too-much” alarm when it goes off.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Why would anyone devote their life to tearing someone else down? In the last 45 years I’ve seen such people pop up occasionally, gain attention, and then disappear. They’re never known for their own accomplishments.