Applied Scholastics Subterfuge! Censorship at The Argus.
Ignatius J. Reilly
http://mediamayhem.blogspot.com/2005/10/argus-censors-story-on-scientology.html
snip>
Friday, October 14
Censorship at The Argus
Peter Downs, publisher of St. Louis Schools Watch and regular
contributor to The St. Louis Argus, submitted an article to the Argus
this week about controversy surrounding Applied Scholastics, a school
vendor with ties to Scientology.
Downs writes in his latest SLS Watch email, "While at the printer, the
publisher pulled the article and replaced it with a press release from
Applied Scholastics. A senior vice president of Applied Scholastics,
Mary Adams, invited the publisher, Eddie Hasan, to visit their
headquarters with his daughter [State Rep. Yaphett El-Amin, who is
running for state senate] to meet Isaac Hayes [who is also a
Scientologist]."
It's times like this that The Argus Blogger is glad that STLArgus.com
is independent."
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Tilman Hausherr
<pyloric-va...@abdominal-distention.com> wrote:
>http://stlargus.com/2005/10/censorship-at-argus.html
>http://mediamayhem.blogspot.com/2005/10/argus-censors-story-on-scientology.html
>snip>
>Friday, October 14
>Censorship at The Argus
>
>Peter Downs, publisher of St. Louis Schools Watch and regular
>contributor to The St. Louis Argus, submitted an article to the Argus
>this week about controversy surrounding Applied Scholastics, a school
>vendor with ties to Scientology.
>
>Downs writes in his latest SLS Watch email, "While at the printer, the
>publisher pulled the article and replaced it with a press release from
>Applied Scholastics. A senior vice president of Applied Scholastics,
>Mary Adams, invited the publisher, Eddie Hasan, to visit their
>headquarters with his daughter [State Rep. Yaphett El-Amin, who is
>running for state senate] to meet Isaac Hayes [who is also a
>Scientologist]."
>
>It's times like this that The Argus Blogger is glad that STLArgus.com
>is independent."
I don't get this. The "St. Louis Argus" blog complains about censorship
at the "St. Louis Argus"?
Tilman
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moontaco
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:35:54 -0700, Ignatius J. Reilly
> <pyloric-va...@abdominal-distention.com> wrote:
>
> >http://stlargus.com/2005/10/censorship-at-argus.html
> >http://mediamayhem.blogspot.com/2005/10/argus-censors-story-on-scientology.html
> >snip>
> >Friday, October 14
> >Censorship at The Argus
> >
> >Peter Downs, publisher of St. Louis Schools Watch and regular
> >contributor to The St. Louis Argus, submitted an article to the Argus
> >this week about controversy surrounding Applied Scholastics, a school
> >vendor with ties to Scientology.
> >
> >Downs writes in his latest SLS Watch email, "While at the printer, the
> >publisher pulled the article and replaced it with a press release from
> >Applied Scholastics. A senior vice president of Applied Scholastics,
> >Mary Adams, invited the publisher, Eddie Hasan, to visit their
> >headquarters with his daughter [State Rep. Yaphett El-Amin, who is
> >running for state senate] to meet Isaac Hayes [who is also a
> >Scientologist]."
> >
> >It's times like this that The Argus Blogger is glad that STLArgus.com
> >is independent."
>
> I don't get this. The "St. Louis Argus" blog complains about censorship
> at the "St. Louis Argus"?
>
> Tilman
>
>
>
I believe that the complaint is on a blog related to the newspaper but
independent of it. Note the last line: "It's times like this that The
Argus Blogger is glad that STLArgus.com is independent." The writer is
referring the site he/she is posting on, not the newsaper itself. A
pretty unusual situation--one that would not happen with major big-city
newspapers.
It's interesting that the Argus is a black newspaper (by its own
description) and the rep from Applied Scholastics invited the
presumably black publisher to bring his daughter to their headquarters
to meet Isaac Hayes! It seems to have been an effective strategy.
moontaco
Simkatu
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:35:54 -0700, Ignatius J. Reilly
> <pyloric-va...@abdominal-distention.com> wrote:
>
>
>>http://stlargus.com/2005/10/censorship-at-argus.html
>>http://mediamayhem.blogspot.com/2005/10/argus-censors-story-on-scientology.html
>>snip>
>>Friday, October 14
>>Censorship at The Argus
>>
>>Peter Downs, publisher of St. Louis Schools Watch and regular
>>contributor to The St. Louis Argus, submitted an article to the Argus
>>this week about controversy surrounding Applied Scholastics, a school
>>vendor with ties to Scientology.
>>
>>Downs writes in his latest SLS Watch email, "While at the printer, the
>>publisher pulled the article and replaced it with a press release from
>>Applied Scholastics. A senior vice president of Applied Scholastics,
>>Mary Adams, invited the publisher, Eddie Hasan, to visit their
>>headquarters with his daughter [State Rep. Yaphett El-Amin, who is
>>running for state senate] to meet Isaac Hayes [who is also a
>>Scientologist]."
>>
>>It's times like this that The Argus Blogger is glad that STLArgus.com
>>is independent."
>
>
> I don't get this. The "St. Louis Argus" blog complains about censorship
> at the "St. Louis Argus"?
That is what it looks like to me. An independent journalist on the blog
complains that the print version of Argus is censored.
Mike Gormez
Can you confirm or deny your visit to the scientology-linked Applied
Scholastics facility? Enclosed you'll find the source for my worryies:
>http://stlargus.com/2005/10/censorship-at-argus.html
>http://mediamayhem.blogspot.com/2005/10/argus-censors-story-on-scientology.html
>snip>
>Friday, October 14
>Censorship at The Argus
>
>Peter Downs, publisher of St. Louis Schools Watch and regular
>contributor to The St. Louis Argus, submitted an article to the Argus
>this week about controversy surrounding Applied Scholastics, a school
>vendor with ties to Scientology.
>
>Downs writes in his latest SLS Watch email, "While at the printer, the
>publisher pulled the article and replaced it with a press release from
>Applied Scholastics. A senior vice president of Applied Scholastics,
>Mary Adams, invited the publisher, Eddie Hasan, to visit their
>headquarters with his daughter [State Rep. Yaphett El-Amin, who is
>running for state senate] to meet Isaac Hayes [who is also a
>Scientologist]."
>
>It's times like this that The Argus Blogger is glad that STLArgus.com
>is independent."
--
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Praxis
From
http://stlargus.com/2005/10/rft-reports-on-argus-controversy.html
RFT reports on Argus controversy
Thursday, October 27
This week's issue of The Riverfront Times makes mention of the Argus
censorship controversy. The article ["L is for L. Ron" by Kristen
Hinman] quotes St. Louis Argus publisher Eddie Hasan saying, "I might
have given [Applied Scholastics International] free marketing... But
I'm never one to sit on the sidelines and watch people attack somebody
based on their religion."
The controversy stems from Hasan's decision to pull a story by
contributor Peter Downs on A.S.I., their connection to the Church of
Scientology, and their recent attempts to get contracts with the St.
Louis Public Schools.
Without notifying Downs or the Argus' editor, George Jackson, Hasan
pulled the story at the last minute and replaced it with a press
release and photo submitted by A.S.I. Jackson, Downs, and others have
since resigned from the paper.
posted by The Argus Blogger at 7:40 AM