Scientology Thursday Stats: This Week's Roundup! - 2011-11-10

Scientology Thursday Stats: This Week's Roundup! November 10, 2011, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice

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Heldal-Lund takes on an Idol Every Thursday afternoon, Scientology's "orgs" -- its churches, as it were -- scramble to report their weekly stats to show how much progress they've made over the week before. And woe to those whose numbers are sagging!

We do something similar here at Runnin' Scared every week. A little before the Thursday 2pm deadline, we tally up the previous week's media hits and misses for the church, and we look for stories far and wide.

In fact, this week's roundup starts in far-off Norway, where one of Scientology's all-time most formidable critics took on the sort of cultural icon it's hard to beat these days: that country's version of an American Idol judge.

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{{cite news | author = Tony Ortega | title = Scientology Thursday Stats: This Week's Roundup! | url = http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/11/scientology_thu_1.php? | work = Runnin' Scared | publisher = Village Voice | date = November 10, 2011 | accessdate = January 14, 2017 }}