Google Books has more than 20 years worth of back issues of WWN (there's an official WWN site, too). Their favorite themes include, but are not limited to: Nostradamus, Bigfoot, Aliens, the Loch Ness monster, the fattest, skinniest, tallest, and shortest people in the world, Satan, God, Jesus, Hell, Heaven, babies doing amazing things, and outrageous but true occurrences: How could they let Saddam keep that lottery money?? These are as good a proxy as anything for American life since the Clinton administration: the rise and fall of the religious right, and we all get fat. That's about it.

Maybe people who have a lot of money and want to give it away? Little children who are looking for things in dark, scary tunnels? It's hard to tell.

The bottom line is, even if you don't know it, you're depressed. Or, at the very least, you have some very serious emotional problems. And that's why Scientology is here.

"But is there some way you can sell me on the idea of Scientology in the vaguest, creepiest terms possible, answering all and none of my questions at the same time?" you ask?

Sure!

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Hamilton,

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Sometimes the commitment to generate publicity can get an agency in trouble. As you noted in your post, one of our more aggressive marcom specialists at Fleishman-Hillard developed a news release for a client that made light of the FOX News green room. Understandably, the folks at FOX didn't appreciate it. One of our strengths is maintaining good relationships with major media like FOX. We talked with our friends at FOX, and also made a note to our file on how to avoid these situations in the future.

Rich Jernstedt
CMO
Fleishman-Hillard