Flattery or fear from Freedom TV?

21 May 2007 Rob Buckley UK TV Post a comment

I’ve just been sent that DVD. You know, the one the crazy moon bats, aka the Scientologists, have been sending to people about that Panorama documentary in an effort to avoid a bit of bad publicity. You know, the one exposing their frothing that’s now been YouTubed to death.

I’m not sure whether to be flattered. Is it because I’m a media type? Have they spotted my journo credentials and decided to influence me?

Or are they just carpet-bombing the UK with these things?

If it’s the latter, I’d really rather they wouldn’t. Maybe alien war lords with spare nukes in their pockets can bring the natural resources necessary for such a scheme to our planet, but I suspect they’ve been sucking stuff out of rocks and trees to make these DVDs. Bad, wasteful Scientologists.

If the former, I’m scared.

How the crap did they get my home address?

I can imagine a few scenarios, but they all have scary stalker qualities to them. Eek.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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