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26. Mike Rinder - A Billion Years

Ideas Having Sex

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Did Scientology Sue Comedy Central?

South Park episode in 2005 where they expose a lot of the Z news story and are just generally critical of Tom Cruise in the church was maybe the biggest pop culture, public debacle for Scientology. The decision in the Time magazine case basically set the standard for what actual malice is in reporting. And so there wasn't really any legal ground to do anything with Comedy Central. All sorts of efforts were made to try and influence Comedy Central through, you know, its parent company,. which I think at the time was CBS or Viacom or someone.

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