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Deep Dives Into Scientology, Behind the HuffPo-AOL Marriage and Talks With Shady SEO Experts

It's the Best Media Writing of the Week

By: Matthew Creamer
Published: February 18, 2011

If you ask this thetan, there's little better investigative fodder than the Church of Scientology's relationship with Hollywood, a link that has bestowed enormous awareness and maybe even a little credibility to a group that numbers, by one count, far fewer than that of Rastas -- and they have drugs! In this week's New Yorker, Lawrence Wright, the great chronicler of Al-Qaeda, shifts his gaze to a different group of, um, true believers as he narrates Oscar-winning writer-director Paul Haggis' public split with Scientology. ...

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