{"id":5870,"date":"2009-06-17T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T11:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2009-06-17T13:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T12:05:05","slug":"scientology-broadcasts-tv-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/scientology-broadcasts-tv-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientology Broadcasts TV Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RINF NEWS<\/p>\n<p>The Church of Scientology is broadcasting a TV advert aimed at re-branding the group, who are\u00a0often accused of human rights violations including\u00a0child abuse and\u00a0conspiracy to murder.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of Scientology are buying spots on CNN&#8217;s <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged ANDERSON COOPER\" href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/tag\/anderson-cooper\/\">Anderson Cooper<\/a> 360, and<em> <\/em>the 30 second ad appears to be aimed at people who feel unfulfilled and depressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of us have been looking their whole lives. Most don&#8217;t even know what they are looking for, but we all feel it &#8230; that unexplainable emptiness that can only be filled by one thing &#8230; the truth,&#8221; states the ad.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how long the ad has been running but the Alexa\u00a0Internet traffic monitoring site\u00a0notes an increase of hits to the Scientology web site since May from a 0.001% share of all Internet traffic to 0.02%.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that\u00a0Peaches Geldof, a British socialite and daughter of Bob Geldof, is set to join the Church after\u00a0she was spotted\u00a0leaving the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>One of Scientology&#8217;s\u00a0beliefs is that each human being is full of &#8220;Thetans&#8221;, the dead souls of an alien race.<\/p>\n<p>Beam me up Scotty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RINF NEWS The Church of Scientology is broadcasting a TV advert aimed at re-branding the group, who are\u00a0often accused of human rights violations including\u00a0child abuse and\u00a0conspiracy to murder. The Church of Scientology are buying spots on CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper 360, and the 30 second ad appears to be aimed at people who feel unfulfilled and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}