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Episode 3: Scientology’s War on the Media with Richard Behar

August 11, 2020 By Mike Rinder 40 Comments

  We were very fortunate to speak with Richard Behar on this week's episode of the Fair Game podcast. Rich, along with Pauletter Cooper (who will feature in an upcoming episode) is a poster child for scientology Fair Game against journalists. He is an award-winning investigative journalist who first wrote about scientology in 1986 for Forbes magazine in an article entitled The Prophet and Profits of Scientology. His most famous scientology piece was the 1991 Time magazine cover story, The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power. The subhead on his article pretty much sums up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Interviews, Podcast Tagged With: Alex Gibney, fair game, Fair Game Podcast, Forbes magazine, Going Clear, HBO, Karen Bass, Lawrence Wright, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Paulette Cooper, Richard Behar, Time magazine

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