Church of Scientology snaps up Hollywood film studio
The Church of Scientology and the movie business have qualities in common – they are both purveyors of dreams and they both provoke emotional reactions in their customers.
In a move that makes the connection more overt, the church has now acquired a property that has the distinction of being the longest continuously-producing Hollywood studio. The Scientologists have bought the five-acre site on Sunset Boulevard from a struggling public TV station, KCET-TV, for an undisclosed sum likely to have run to several million dollars.
…
The church said its new Hollywood base would become the central media hub for its more than 9,000 churches and missions around the world, making it a key component of its global outreach to – or as its detractors claim, indoctrination of – its followers.“This new studio enables the church to establish one of the most advanced centres used by religious broadcasters with the ability to harness 21st-century broadcast technology and production power to deliver its message to the largest international audience possible,” the church said in a statement.
I bet they’ll be fair and balanced.