--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FF essayist Thom Krystofiak, who used to write frequently and post on > FFL, has a piece published in this week's FF Weekly Reader. Entitled > Sanitizing the Fairfield Story. About the pr-people of the TMorg > taking the Washington Post's glowing uncritical article about > Maharishi's MUM, Vedic City and TM- Fairfield and their taking the > article, re-publishing it and sanitizing it further. More than a > couple of touch-up evidently as Thom reviews further what was done. SNIP
I'm not familiar with how they sanitized the article, but I read the Post article and was surprised how positive it was considering how many different other ways it could have gone - hard to imagine the tmo being disappointed in it. But I remember a few years ago when MMY was on Larry King show - prior to the airing the tmo put out some statements attempting to downplay the importance of the show, almost discouraging tmers from watching. I assumed the interview (which had already been taped) hadn't gone very well for MMY, but it turned out to have been a typical Larry King interview in which he didn't ask any tough questions and pretty much put MMY on a small pedestal throughout. I guess if the press doesn't completely mimic the party line like bevan or hagelin do then the tmo considers it didn't go that well.
