Examples of what critics leave out from their reports:

• Weeks in Review
  • Documents posted by Diane Richardson in 1996 have shown that Paulette Cooper engaged in wide variety of unethical and illegal practice, such as fraud, perjury, direct support to deprogrammers, etc. The WIR made no mention whatsoever of the controversy despite the fact that there was literally nothing else discussed in the newsgroup for the whole of November 1996. Peter McDermott, absent during this time, had this when he discovered what happened:

    • Of course I missed it. I haven't read ARS for two years. Sadly,
      it seems that Rod's Week in Review doesn't contain all of the
      really interesting stuff.

  • Rob Clark made a post encouraging others to bomb their Scientology organization, then claimed the post was a forgery made by the CoS to bring him in trouble with his work. When the truth was exposed, Rod Keller didn't find this important enough to include in his ARS Week in Review, even though Rob Clark admitted having made the post.
    
    
  • In September 2000, Sten-Arne exposed the fact that someone, most likely David Rice, have been covertly canceling posts from Scientologists or posts favorable to Scientology from the Lightlink server, a server used by a great number of ARS posters. Again, Rod Keller did not find this newsworthy for his weekly coverage
    
    
  • Jun 24, 2001. Suicide of Greg Bashaw, a Scientology or ex-scientology member. The LMT had a very dubious role in that by interfering with his treatment in the psychiatry ward. There are longs thread debating the slip of tongue by Teresa Summers, LMT vice-president, that started the whole thing. Yet, the only mention Rod Keller makes in his Weeks in Review is the announcement of the death, with the comment that "Scientologist Greg Bashaw recently committed suicide in Michigan". None of the controversy is mentionned.

These four examples have one thing in common: they badly reflect against critics. The Weeks in Review simply can't be trusted when it comes to objective information. Claims by critics that they reflect on both side of the story is simply a lie.

• Legal cases
  • The CoS has won ten out of eleven net-related court cases it had with critics, with one being a draw. These court cases were one of the main motivations for people to engage in the anti-Scientology cause. If you check on the legal section of Operation Clambake, the main anti-Scientology site, you will see no mention of this whatsoever. What you will find, however, is the case lost by the CoS in England.

THIS IS A QUICK DRAFT. MORE TO COME.

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