Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]
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David Miscavige: Scientology TV launches by June 21, to show ‘planet’s coolest religion’

 Last week, one of our tipsters found evidence that the Church of Scientology has convinced the country’s second-largest cable television system, Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable), to make room for SCNTV, a channel that will carry Scientology’s […]

April 4th, 2017 | Category: Scientology Propaganda | 1,084 comments
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Scientology leader David Miscavige launches new personal attacks at Leah Remini

 Scientology leader David Miscavige is demonstrating some real concern about Leah Remini’s upcoming second season of her A&E series, Scientology and the […]

April 3rd, 2017 | Category: Leah Remini | 1,022 comments

Scientology for your plants? In the grand tradition of L. Ron Hubbard, yes!

[Fulvio Balmelli]

Rod Keller has some good news today for plant lovers and […]

April 2nd, 2017 | Category: Rod Keller | 740 comments

Scientology’s spies: L. Ron Hubbard’s twisted legacy that proved his sickness

Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. He has a new edition of the book for sale, and for more than three years he’s been helping us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that tend […]

April 1st, 2017 | Category: Scientology Mythbusting | 456 comments

Jonny Jacobsen: The tweets about Scientology that got a comedian in hot water

[Argentinian actress Malena Pichot]

Our man in Paris, British journalist Jonny Jacobsen, has a report out of South America for us […]

March 31st, 2017 | Category: Jonny Jacobsen | 786 comments

Dungeons & Dragons and Scientology collide: Can we get a saving throw on that engram?

 Larry Elmore has been called the best thing that ever happened to Dungeons & Dragons art (although personally, your proprietor is more of a Trampier man), and we wondered what Elmore’s legions of role-playing fans might think if they knew that for the past four years, he’s been helping out the Church of […]

March 30th, 2017 | Category: Scientology Propaganda | 881 comments

SCIENTOLOGY TV: It’s really happening! Spectrum blocks out a channel for Miscavige

 Plenty of us scoffed when Scientology leader David Miscavige spent millions to purchase and renovate the KCET studios in Los Angeles and rename it Scientology Media Productions, which he opened last May. […]

March 29th, 2017 | Category: Scientology Propaganda | 1,602 comments

Lawrence Wright goes to Nazareth; or, how Reza Aslan drove us into the arms of L. Ron Hubbard

[Lawrence Wright, getting the scoop. (Illo by Observer)]

Yesterday, we were still thinking about Reza Aslan’s friendly-but-not-so-friendly jabs at Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright in his Sunday night Believer episode about Scientology. […]

March 28th, 2017 | Category: Scientology Studies | 807 comments

Reza Aslan’s ‘Believer’ episode about indie Scientology lived down to all expectations

 Now that we’ve seen Reza Aslan’s Believer episode about “independent Scientology,” we can see that our earlier story, which was based on what he was saying in interviews leading up to the show, was really on the money and we don’t have a lot to […]

March 27th, 2017 | Category: Reza Aslan | 1,088 comments

Scientology’s gateway drug: The personality test and what it’s actually telling you

 Rod Keller examines Scientology’s gateway drug — the personality […]

March 26th, 2017 | Category: Rod Keller | 1,489 comments
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