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 Post subject: KABC TV (LA) on Debbie Cook. broadcast 15th Feb 2012
PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:44 pm 
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Thread title was: KABC TV (LA) Michael Fairman, Luis Garcia, Lori Hodgson
Renamed: KABC TV (LA) on Debbie Cook. broadcast 15th Feb 2012

Original pre-broadcast heads-up: https://whyweprotest.net/community/thre ... 12.100173/

TinyDancer, posting on WWP wrote:
From Joy Grayson (wife of Michael Fairman) on facebook:

    NEWS BULLETIN!!!TOMORROW!!!
    Tuesday, Feb 14, 11pm
    KABC 7 NEWS Interviewing
    Michael Fairman, Luis Garcia, Lori Hodgson, and I (among many others) We will be telling our stories of how our families and friends were forced to disconnect from us by the Church of Scientology...
    Lisa Bartley's earnest exposé will be VERY telling!!

    TUNE IN!!! The truth is coming!!!
    It includes footage from the courthouse but it's a story she's been working on for close to a year and BECAUSE of Debbie's story her producers have finally pushed through all the legal red tape to air the piece. At least that was my understanding from the email Lisa sent us tonight...


Edit: 15th Feb 2012.

This is the KABC 7 news report but nothing from the above mentioned people was used in the actual piece. It's all about Debbie Cook and it's a pretty amazing report. The written article doesn't do it justice. Watch the news video.

Former Scientology executive claims abusive treatment from church leader; Church denies her claims
by Marc Brown. kabc 7 News 15th feb 2012
Article: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=8545654
VIDEO news report: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=8545710 (Running time: 6m52s)
Youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGavaJRNiUs
Direct link to the cult's video of the signing of the original agrement: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=8545558
Quote:
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Southern California is home to the largest community of Scientologists in the world, according to a church spokesperson.


The Church of Scientology, which is famously private and protective of their inner workings, maintains their main base of operations in Hollywood. But its international headquarters, also known as the "International Base," is in Riverside County.

What allegedly happened inside that compound near Hemet is being called into sharp focus because of a lawsuit making its way through the courts.

Debbie Cook, a former Scientology executive, is being sued for breach of contract for criticizing the church in an email after she signed an agreement promising to remain silent. Last week, she took the stand in a San Antonio courthouse and testified about what she said happened on the property near Hemet in trailers she called "The Hole."

"There's a place called 'The Hole,' the windows were barred, the one entrance was guarded by security 24 hours a day," she said on the witness stand.

For 17 years, Cook was Captain of the church's Flag Service Organization, which is Scientology's spiritual Mecca in Clearwater, Fla.

[...more in article link...]


Related content - Cult's responses:
Scientology spokeswoman responds to claims on Feb. 10
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/feature?section=news/national_world&id=8545610
Read Church of Scientology International statement on Feb. 15

http://abclocal.go.com/three/kabc/kabc/scientology_international_statement_feb_15_2012.pdf

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 Post subject: Re: KABC TV (LA) Michael Fairman, Luis Garcia, Lori Hodgson
PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:39 am 
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Edit: Quoted comment below was baseless speculation before the report aired:

...but then, anonymous poster on wwp comments....

Anonymous, posting on WWP, wrote:
Word on the street is that she replaced John Connolly. All media that attended Texas shin dig did a story except for one. Lisa Bartley. She has been interviewing exes on video. She has been doing so for years. Think about it. She gets data and videos her interviews.

Her "website" is wishy washy and she does not come off as a real reporter at all.

She does not work for ABC. She is freelance. She tells people she is from ABC. She is not from ABC. She flew to Texas. Who pays someone to fly to Texas to NOT do a story. ABC did not fly her to Texas. Someone did.

If I am wrong, a reporter who has been working on a story for years will probably not get many more Scilons to talk to her.

If I am right, another OSA agent burned.

Be safe and watch your back.

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 Post subject: Re: KABC TV (LA) Michael Fairman, Luis Garcia, Lori Hodgson
PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:14 am 
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Sponge wrote:
...but then, anonymous poster on wwp comments....

Anonymous, posting on WWP, wrote:
Word on the street is that she replaced John Connolly. All media that attended Texas shin dig did a story except for one. Lisa Bartley. She has been interviewing exes on video. She has been doing so for years. Think about it. She gets data and videos her interviews.

Her "website" is wishy washy and she does not come off as a real reporter at all.

She does not work for ABC. She is freelance. She tells people she is from ABC. She is not from ABC. She flew to Texas. Who pays someone to fly to Texas to NOT do a story. ABC did not fly her to Texas. Someone did.

If I am wrong, a reporter who has been working on a story for years will probably not get many more Scilons to talk to her.

If I am right, another OSA agent burned.

Be safe and watch your back.



her LinkedIn shows her as freelance writer among other things...
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lisa-bartley/35/97/b98

this Web site Is "wishy washy"
http://lisabartley.net/Site/HOME.html

she does claim affiliation with KABC here
gives her e-mail address & phone # as

http://www.vocus.com/invocus/media-inte ... y-kabc-tv/
Lisa Bartley, producer/writer
KABC-TV
(818) 863-7635
lisa.bartley(at)abc.com


a quick google search reveals She uses the phone # and email address in association with her KABC CLAIMS

(818) 863-7635 Is in line with the Actual ABC phone # same number blocks as the KABC numbers in Glendale
as well as the e-mail ...

She uses the actual KABC address here
http://www.jigsaw.com/scid4451601/lisa_ ... html?ver=5
ABC7 Broadcast Center
500 Circle Seven Drive
Glendale, CA 91201

Michael Fairman and His wife Joy may want to give KABC a call... If the story dosen't run...
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/feature?sec ... id=5788340


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 Post subject: Re: KABC TV (LA) Michael Fairman, Luis Garcia, Lori Hodgson
PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:03 pm 
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I first met Lisa Bartley at the Gold Base protest in March 2011. She interviewed me in front of the castle when I was pregnant. :oops: She told me she was an investigative producer for the Los Angeles affiiliate of ABC News (ABC-7) that's based in Burbank.

https://whyweprotest.net/community/thre ... 830/page-3

When the protest ended, and we all went to a restaurant in Hemet to celebrate, Lisa stayed behind. There were photos posted on WWP of her being filmed by Bart Parr (Squirrel Buster) and another Sea Org guy after we had left.

I've had a number of email exchanges & telephone calls with Lisa in 2011 & provided her dox, photos, and gave her permission to use my YT videos for her project. "British mum" pm'd me on Facebook about being her being interviewed by Lisa regarding her daughter, Mandy. I provided Lisa more dox pertinent to that. I was informed at the time, I believe in June 2011, that ABC-7 was going to air an expose in about "2 months". That did not occur.

I saw Lisa again at Janet Reitman's event at the CFI. Glib can speak to that because after the event, they drove to Big Blue together where they encountered a young European woman they believed to be on the RPF.

I've been asked by a number of ex-Scilons whether she could be a mole for the cult. I don't know, but I doubt she is. Maybe she's a very thorough investigator, and is not quick to air a flimsy expose. I've been interviewed by local media folks in the past and nothing ever came of it. Unlike Mark Bunker (who also attended the March 2011 protest & may know Lisa; you can ask him), Lisa hasn't shared tidbits of what's to come in her expose.. if, in fact, one ever airs.

Remember, Lisa answers to ABC; perhaps, the network & it's legal department are requiring certain things from her before they air an expose. Lisa did receive an award in December 2011 for her journalistic endeavors:

Distinguished Journalist Award Winners - Television

Lisa Bartley is an investigative producer at ABC7, Eyewitness News. She’s a graduate of UCLA and has been with ABC7 since 2000. Bartley began her first paid job in journalism at KCAL. From there she started line producing on the overnight shift at KESQ, after which she landed at KNTV in Las Vegas. At ABC7, Bartley has been a writer, field producer, line producer, she learned to shoot and edit, and has even been on air.

Most meaningful to her has been her investigative work on a series about the MTA that looked at the disparities and treatment of disabled people who depend on the MTA to get around. That series resulted in the Board of Supervisors ordering a full-scaled review of the agency and a Department of Justice investigation looking into ADA violations. Bartley’s ongoing series on serial plaintiffs has also had an impact. A California state senator who is fighting to get legislation passed that would cut down on frivolous lawsuits is using her stories.

Bartley has also worked as a field producer during the trials of Michael Jackson and Scott Peterson. She received an Emmy nomination for investigative reporting in the MTA series and a Genesis award for a piece on greyhounds who were rescued from racetracks.

http://dlzlaw.com/docs/2012SPJ_AwardPressRelease.pdf


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 Post subject: KABC just covered Debbie Cook today
PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:42 am 
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ABC 7 in LA just did a lengthy story on Debbie Cook complete with courthouse video and video with elliot abelson as she signed her life away. Good job ABC! Aired at 5:30 PM Wed. Feb. 15. This is a big deal. They RARELY mention Scientology ever and even this report took no sides and made no mention of the cult's various bad reps.

READ THE STORY HERE: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=8545654

[Mod edit:] VIDEO news report: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=8545710
Youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGavaJRNiUs


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 Post subject: Re: KABC TV (LA) on Debbie Cook. broadcast 15th Feb 2012
PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:46 am 
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Same info posted in the main Debbie Cook gag order lawsuit media thread.
Continue discussion there
: viewtopic.php?p=434337#p434337
or in either of the threads running in Opinions & Debate:
Here: viewtopic.php?p=433581#p433581
or here: viewtopic.php?p=434334#p434334

Take any further speculation you have about the KABC/freelance reporter, Lisa Bartley, to the Opinions & Debate section, in a new thread, if you think it requires further discussion.

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