Tony Ortega's Challenge to the Sundance-Enthralled Media

Blogger and featured talking head says Church of Scientology has dropped all smear pretenses

Fresh from a second Park City viewing of Alex Gibney’s documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Tony Ortega makes a typically astute observation about the church’s immediate PR response. And in so doing, he sets the table for one or more enterprising media outlets:

For years, former church members and some journalists have been smeared by websites that hid their ownership. We knew that Scientology operated these anonymous Web pages, and used them to post information that was in some cases gathered during confidential counseling sessions.

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