Those silly boys and girls fro the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup
just have _way_ too much fun! And time on their hands.
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TOM CRUISE GETS HOAXED
(currently on the DrudgeReport.com front page)
It links to this story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170635,00.html
Tom Won't Teach After All
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
By Roger Friedman
Tom Cruise: Hoaxers Get Him, Web Site
Don't believe a word of a press release put on the Internet last night
about Tom Cruise conducting Scientology lectures in Los Angeles next month.
Unfortunately, the gossip site Gawker.com took the bait and posted a
link to something called pressbox.co.uk.
That site reports that Cruise is planning four free lectures at
Scientology's Celebrity Centre in October.
The titles of these bogus lectures are: "How Psychiatry Invented
Schizophrenia, and What Scientologists Can Do About It," "Handling
Sexual Dis-Orientation: Out of the Closet and Into the Auditing Room,"
"Diagnosis and Treatment of So-Called Clinical Depression with the
Hubbard Mark Super VII Quantum Electropsychometer," and "Neuroanatomical
Changes Resulting from Chronic Methamphetamine Abuse: Can Narconon's
Sauna and Niacin Treatment Program Help?"
Clever, no? If it were only true, the media would have a field day.
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But a quick call to Scientology spokesman Greg LeClaire scotched the
whole thing. Tom Cruise and Gawker.com: You've been "Punk'd."
So what is pressbox.co.uk? It's a site where anyone can post a press
release and no one checks its veracity.
Ironically, LeClaire told me, "I've posted press releases there myself."
The Cruise release certainly looks real, including giving Cruise's
contact as his lawyer. But a proofreading of the copy shows that Bertram
Fields' name is spelled wrong: it's missing the first "r."
Knowing the litigious Fields, he's already checking on spelling laws in
the United Kingdom.
Cruise, meantime, has no time to give lectures to anyone. He's in the
middle of shooting the very expensive "Mission: Impossible 3" in
locations all over the world.
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