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Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: Wolf <wolft...@micron.net>
Date: 1998/06/04
Subject: Re: Is it true?
Eric S. Smith: Left-Field Marshal wrote: > In article <35839fd9.87346...@news.ping.be>, Bernie <b...@arcadis.be> wrote: > "Okay, honey, that's enough 60 Minutes segments for me. Let's go join an customer satisfaction. Despite the heavy media attention GM received about exploding gas tanks. Are you really suprised that negative media coverage doesn't always cause lowered sales? Do you still eat apples? Drink coffee? Buy packaged meats? Despite ARS assertions that negative PR *does* have a negative effect on potential Scn's, the fact is that media exposure often does little more than raise public awareness that certain things actually exist. Realize too that excessive criticism often makes people curious as to what all the ruckus is about. And not every curious person agrees with the negative PR. Just the musings of someone who has made a good living selling contentious products and services for 30 years... > The CoS may eventually get better at not looking like utter cretins in They look like cretins to you Eric, but then you're hardly open-minded > court and the press, but I doubt that they'll have a big renaissance > and become wildly popular around the world. Whatever the efficacy of > criticism in this and other places, there's still the fundamental > "Hubbard made it up as he went along" problem. are you? If it were that simple then no religion would ever get out of the starting gate. I disagree that "Hubbard made it all up" is as big a stumbling block as you think it is. It's fundamental that any person predisposed to skepticism will point that out - whatever the truth of it is - but you're not in the majority... at least as far as I can tell. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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