TMO editing PR (Washington Post article) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/123447
--- In [email protected], "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. > > What are they thinking when they do that? They really did not need > to, but the damage, to their credibility of anything else they say or > write becomes material. Their peer-review stuff,, their own press- > releases, their own explainations about what they do with the money, > their own explainations about what they may be doing for world peace > to what end. > > What were they thinking in their needing to sneak re-write that > Washington Post article without attribution? In itself it is just so > revealing about the cult of their culture up there inside. Is > stunning to watch them do it. Would be interesting to hear them try > to explain their actions in a critical interview. > > "What Maharishi is doing is more important than anything anyone else > is doing...", thus justifying anything they may do, to his end? > Becomes the take-off point where good people can do bad things they > may not otherwise do. Seeing this again with the TMorg and our > friends up there? It does become about the moral integrity of those > doing it and their cause they represent. The sanitizing of the > Washington Post story is pretty poor which crosses over to being > pretty bad. > > > JGD, -Doug in FF >
