I love how they captured the confetti in mid-air in each and every photograph. There's nothing scientology does that isn't choreographed and there's nothing scientology does that isn't bullshit.
The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
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#12This again?
Every so often, the Church of Scientology goes up against the Internet.
Every so often, the Church of Scientology gets its ass handed to it.
This has been going on since 'the Internet' meant 'Usenet' for most people on the Internet.
Heh. Maybe this time will be especially amusing.
Re: The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
#13A sample of moderator approved comments: Seems like David Miscavige and Scientology are on a roll. Also it appears the media have been missing the real story. I hadn't realized there were so many new churches opened this past year. Great report!
Finally the true story of scientology is being told!
Re: The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
#14>Sponsor Content is created by The Atlantic’s Promotions Department in partnership with our advertisers. The Atlantic editorial team is not involved in the creation of this content. Email advertising@theatlantic.com to learn more.
So if the Taliban wanted to pay for content they would be fine with that too.
Re: The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
#15In next year's recap they can talk about the big recruiting breakthroughs they made by writing enormous checks to struggling media outfits which allowed them to trick readers into thinking puff pieces were real content.
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#16Someone ought to write an adblock-like extension that incorporates jwz's HERP DERP filter to arbitrary URLs, starting with http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/*
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#17I'm not quite sure if it's 'sellout' or if it's just the church having key people at The Atlantic to make this happen, sort of like how the church had infiltrated key government organizations around the world.
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#18So they're essentially letting Scientology use The Atlantic's "brand" to trick people into reading this? (Yes, I know it says Sponsored Post)
This, on top of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108929 and http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/06/13/reddit-... makes me pretty weary of trusting anything I read on TheAtlantic ever again
Re: The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
#19>Sponsor Content is created by The Atlantic’s Promotions Department in partnership with our advertisers. The Atlantic editorial team is not involved in the creation of this content. Email advertising@theatlantic.com to learn more. So if the Taliban wanted to pay for content they would be fine with that too.
That industry is getting rather desperate for money these days.
Re: The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments
#20I understand that this is "sponsoderd content" AKA an ad.
I have seen "sponsored pages" in newspapers for many years about a lot of crap, is there a reason to consider this one worse than the average?
(Yes, scientology is evil but they are not forbidden from making ads I reckon?)
edit: the "sponsored" bit is right on top of the page, as it is in dead-tree-form newspapers too.