KESQ-TV's Nathan Baca disgraced his profession and harmed the reputation of an entire religious organization for the sake of his own career. His coverage of the controversy surrounding the Church of Scientology is not fair and it is not balanced. As you will see, he deliberately obfuscated one side of a story to prevent it from challenging the conclusions he had obviously reached before he even interviewed the other side.
His covert agenda was revealed during a recent interview with Church spokesperson Tommy Davis. You may watch it here. Six minutes into the interview, Tommy produced a booklet and began explaining some of the hate crimes which have been committed by Anonymous. The booklet included images, websites, and personal statements. It was a detailed account, not only of Anonymous' criminal mischief, but of its culture.
Nathan Baca refused to accept the information or even to discuss it on video. His reason? Because it was published anonymously. This in spite of the fact that all of the information is from Anonymous' own websites.
On that basis, Nathan decided to prevent it from entering the dialogue. This is what less unscrupulous people call a "Double Standard". Considering that the anti-Scientologists rely quite heavily upon anonymous reports, tips, and testimonials, this was totally unfair and indicative of his own prejudice.
Instead of addressing the evidence, he changed the subject to an observation point at the Scientology Gold Base, echoing Anonymous' opinion that the Gold Base is some kind of para-military compound. He chose a conspiracy theory over the facts. He is guilty of putting his own bias in front of any truth which may have emerged. Evidently, he doesn't trust his viewers to sort through facts on their own, so he leaves them out of the process. That, and he's merely looking to be sensationalistic.
I have carefully examined the work of Nathan Baca, and there is nothing in there to suggest that he is ignorant. He's a published author and a talented reporter. This leads me to conclude that Nathan Baca is a shrewed manipulator who cares more about e-fame (he's getting a lot of affection from "Anonymous") and money than the truth. He sold out his journalistic integrity when he began entering forums and chatrooms with Anonymous members while "investigating" Scientology.
For this reason, I have dedicated the background of this blog to Nathan Baca, yellow journalism extraordinaire. It will remain yellow as long as Nathan does.
Should he choose to straighten out his act (his journalism philosophy is to "speak truth to power" ) and do a report about the cyber-stalking, the libel-fests, the arrests, the perverted "Anonymous Pubic Hair Raid," or the reality of Anonymous' Internet culture, then it will go back to white. Until then, it shall remain a stark reminder of how disgraceful it is when we invest our trust into our reporters only to have them urinate on the very freedoms they are supposed to defend.
Tom Newton
77 comments:
Awww, did the reporter not dance the dance the cult wanted him to?
Nathan selectively ignored facts.
He is not unbiased. From all reports, he's hooking up with several girls from Anonymous, so what does that tell you, big shot?
He should lose his job--or better yet--go work for MSNBC.
Tom Newton
"He is not unbiased. From all reports, he's hooking up with several girls from Anonymous, so what does that tell you, big shot?"
I'd say this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black but there really aren't many people out there as biased and deliberately ignorant as you Tom.
Lol, do you have a credible source on the femanon thing or was it the usual voices in your head?
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I'd say this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black but there really aren't many people out there as biased and deliberately ignorant as you Tom."
Attack the attacker huh? You cannot refute my observations and conclusions in the court of reason, so you attack me personally.
This just proves how right I am.
Tom Newton
And yet he offered to have Tommy Davis come on and dispute the claims. Oddly enough Tommy Davis never even made an attempt to publicly deny the story...sounds like Tommy Davis is either in RPF or cannot dispute the claims, which is more evidence than you have ever provided.
^No, Tommy Davis realized that Nathan Baca was only interested in exploiting a controversy, and GTFO.
"You cannot refute my observations and conclusions in the court of reason, so you attack me personally."
Fine, I refute them. He wasn't biased at all. I didn't really see the need to directly refute them any more than if you'd claimed that water falls upwards into the sky.
^What you just said about the rain falling into the sky is called "evaporation." In any event, you were attempting an appeal to ridicule because you cannot refute my points.
Fail.
"No, Tommy Davis realized that Nathan Baca was only interested in exploiting a controversy"
So why didn't he come on and say that? I think the real reason is that Tommy severely fucked up the first time. He's repeatedly, specifically stated that the Xenu story is not part of Scientology and then he goes and admits that it's a core belief on television. As screw ups go that's pretty major.
"In any event, you were attempting an appeal to ridicule because you cannot refute my points."
I just refuted your claims. He didn't demonstrate any significant bias whatsoever. The interview was about Scientology, not its critics. It's not biased to stick to your questions when conducting an interview. It's downright unprofessional to allow the interviewee to dodge questions.
^What you should be asking is "why the double standard, Mr. Baca?"
But you won't because you don't want people to know.
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Nathan Baca refused to accept the information or even to discuss it on video. His reason? Because it was published anonymously. This in spite of the fact that all of the information is from Anonymous' own websites. "
TRUFAX
'What you just said about the rain falling into the sky is called "evaporation."'
I didn't say rain, I said water and water doesn't fall upwards in evaporation, water vapor does. Duh.
Tom Newton said...
^No, Tommy Davis realized that Nathan Baca was only interested in exploiting a controversy, and GTFO.Then why did he not just come on out and say it when the invitation was extended to him to do so?
Because he knows he is going to fuck up again, or that he is RPF'd.
As for me to "GTFO". No thanks I like it here.
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As for me to "GTFO". No thanks I like it here."
It was intended as Tommy Davis Got The F Out of a bad situation.
^If there was a bad situation Tommy created it when he made a fool of himself by, as the spokesperson for the cult said the exact opposite of what the management has been saying on the whole space opera aspect of the cult.
^The bad situation was a so-called journalist refusing to acknowledge one side.
It was a double-standard, don't you agree?
^He never attacked the validity of the booklet, he was pointing out that it was strange that the cult would omit credits when, according to them, information from anonymous sources was the work of hate criminals. If he was being biased he would have cut out all the tripe Tommy spewed for over two minutes.
Funny, I don't remember the point where Mr Baca called Mr Davis names. Maybe when you demonstrate one iota of impartiality you can talk about bias.
I used the word obfuscating for a reason. Look it up.
Nathan Baca was intentionally muddying up the term anonymous with the group "Anonymous."
It's not right for a so-called journalist to deliberately distort facts to benefit one side over the other.
"Funny, I don't remember the point where Mr Baca called Mr Davis names. Maybe when you demonstrate one iota of impartiality you can talk about bias."
He didn't call names, but he did ridicule Scientology, albeit surreptitiously.
^I think that you and the cult are the ones trying to do that. You constantly label any negative act on the internet that happens as a result of anonymous action as the work of 'Anonymous'.
^
No. Anonymous makes no secret about their actions.
Agent Pubit?
Habbo Hotel?
PedoBear?
ED?
Libel?
Rogues Gallery?
LulzNW.com's cyber-stalking?
AGP?
I could go on all night....
Please do. I need a laugh.
I will just refer you to the "archives."
Tom
Every single one of those points has been addressed and debunked and you know it. Like a true conspiracy theorist you conveniently forget anything that might damage your preconceived notions.
"Every single one of those points has been addressed and debunked and you know it. Like a true conspiracy theorist you conveniently forget anything that might damage your preconceived notions."
Please tell me how you "debunked" Agent Pubit, please.
I knew it, from the moment I saw Tommy Davis accidentally destroy himself in the interview I knew there was no way the cult of scientology was going to let the interviewer off with daring to make them embarrass themselves.
I don't speak for the Church.
Even if I did, it wouldn't change the fact that Nathan Baca is unreliable.
^Of course you don't, it would be even more embarassing if you were a spokesperson.
AGAIN:
"Every single one of those points has been addressed and debunked and you know it. Like a true conspiracy theorist you conveniently forget anything that might damage your preconceived notions."
Please tell me how you "debunked" Agent Pubit, please.
anonymous action done in the name of Anonymous is not necessarily Anonymous, no matter how lulzy it maybe. There is a term called guilt by association.
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ARE HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION TO DEMONSTRATE A POINT AND BY NO MEANS REPRESENT MYSELF.
If I hung out with gang members but not in the gang, by your logic, I'm a gang member. If I lived in Japan and spoke Japanese, by your logic, I'm Japanese. If I played football for a high school and several team members, excluding myself, decided to vandalize a rival high school's locker room, by your logic, I was a part of that vandalism.
You try to blanket all of Anonymous for the actions of the few. Agent Pubeit did what he did on his own accord, in the name of Anonymous, for reasons he and those who helped him decided to do them for. By no means was this all of Anonymous, but a few people who claim association to Anonymous. They knew of the possible consequences and at their expense lulz were had.
Then why didn't Anonymous condemn Agent Pubit, possibly offering to clean the Church?
Nice Double-Think by the way.
Tom
Then why didn't Anonymous condemn Agent Pubit, possibly offering to clean the Church?
Nice Double-Think by the way.
TomAnswer is simple: It was done as an independent action without the knowledge nor consent of the hive mind. We have stated from the beginning that all illegal actions are the responsibility of the person who committed the act and was in no way encouraged or endorsed by Anonymous. and the fact it provides many lulz to this day.
And why would we want to help something we are trying to dismantle?
You can't bypass the truth with your circular logic.
"It was done as an independent action without the knowledge nor consent of the hive mind."
There is no "hive mind." You have been watching too many sci-fi/action films.
When you are ready to come back to earth, accountability will be waiting for you.
I am accountable for my own actions, not the actions of other.
Also, I don't watch movies too often, too busy fighting cults and promoting science.
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Also, I don't watch movies too often, too busy fighting cults and promoting science."
Don't you mean proselytizing for scientism?
Don't you mean proselytizing for scientism? Scientism? WTF is that? I just promote truth using Science, if people want to "convert" it is of their own free will, not by force or coercion.
The term scientism is used to describe the view that natural science has authority over all other interpretations of life, such as philosophical, religious, mythical, spiritual, or humanistic explanations, and over other fields of inquiry, such as the social sciences. The term is used by social scientists like Hayek[1] or Karl Popper to describe what they see as the underlying attitudes and beliefs common to many scientists.
Thank You Wiki.
BAWWWing about yellow journalism there Tommy? lol, irony.
I guess the unbiased thing to do is to track down people who got the permits for the protest post their name, full address, phone number, and then call then a Hater Pedophile Bigot Vandal.
...There is no one hive mind Tom ol' buddy. There are many. When one hive mind falls, ten more take it's place.
BTW, you lie like a scientologist Tom.
MeccaaAnon said...
...There is no one hive mind Tom ol' buddy. There are many. When one hive mind falls, ten more take it's place.
BTW, you lie like a scientologist Tom.TRUFAX
toms a filthy niggerniggernigger
Tom Newton is like Fox News.
-Both extremely biased
-Both get extremely butthurt at logic, common sense, and at things that don't go their way.
-Both are extremely retarded with no limit to how far it will go
tom you cant talk about shit after it happened. thier is no point. we won. the cult looks bad. we look like heros for standing up to them. bawwing about it after acomplishes nothing. u fail agian. and baca said the series still has 4 more parts...
Why hasn’t Tom Newton finished “shredding anonymous” and brought about our destruction….? Oh wait that’s right Tom just needs to quote ED a little more and then everyone will believe him. Well before Tom starts lurking let me ask a rhetorical question to him: can he provide “evidence” about any so called crime committed by anonymous if he cant use ED as a source. Can he quote any “proof” without having to twist the story and add in a URL for some ED page that has nothing to do with peaceful protesting of the cult of $cientology. Oh who am I kidding TomBot won’t die unless ED goes offline and Toms infinite source of everything anonymous goes away and he can’t provide “absolute hard evidence” any more (hahahah evidence, lol) Like how every member of anonymous and you too Tom for going their yourself to jack off to pink bears and those others who only visit ED and all of which are obvious pedophiles right. Blah blah blah I can’t believe he thinks he can win against a whole army of people who all universally don’t know or even care about each other but who all share a common bond….. they have had very negative experiences with the cult of $cientology. And the best thing is the blown members bring new information with them everytime they leave the cult and we use that to wage our war which is practically at its middle. I know anonymous has YEARS of fighting still to do but let me ask you this… the cult or anonymous? Who can outlast who? We need very little money and resources to practically shut down the church and restrict any new members and hurt its public image all with almost no money or resources and very little supplies and yet on the other hand they spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on all sorts of fail shit and its gets them nothing but big fancy empty building and when they harass newcomers those being harassed get embolden and they now feel like it is personal and they feel the fight against the cult is a just fight and deserves ALOT of the individuals time and money and effort. The cult is after all the cults worst enemy. By attacking everyone they create new anti-$cientology supporters everyday, not just anonymous but everyday normal people who got mixed up in fair game by asking a simple question to a scilon like “What is your religion about? Is it really about aliens and lots of forced donations?” and then boom they are followed and harassed and fair gamed and then right their $cientology has a new life long enemy who would have probably forgot it if the cult didn’t push the person into taking a real stance against them. And new ideal orgs filled with nothing but empty air is not gonna go well when you got bills and lawyer fees and court cost and PR boners left and right cuz I for one will never give up. I know the hard core anons who will never and I mean never stop fighting the cult. And now we can do more with less. I mean after all in the beginning with almost 12 thousand members shit wasn’t popping in the news all that much but now as were down to a few thousand world wide the TV and Internet are alive with anti-$cientology stories. We may not be able to make your current brainwashed members quit but I can say with absolute assurance that you will not be getting any new members and eventually you will bleed them dry and they will physically have no more money and you will be forced to sell scilon properties and maybe even the rights to some LRH copyrights. Oh fuck it I’m tired of telling the world were winning and $cientology has been losing for at least the early 90’s when stat drops were at their worst then a slight rebound in the early 2000’s with the help of celebs but even now ask yourself this: When was the last time a real, for real type, celeb publicly praise scilon and said they support it as a whole other than Will Smith or other cultist that been indoctrinated. When did you see Juliet Lewis or fat ass Kirstie or Giovanni Ribisi or that blond dyke at a CCHR function. FUCK YOU $CAMOLOGY. anonymous legally can’t fail.
You don't seem to be aware of the differences between Project Chanology and btards.
tom sucks dicks
This article is a perfect example of scientology fair game in action.
The blogger is clearly villifying a reporter for showing the truth about scientology's abuses. Not only that, the blogger, who is clearly a hired hand of scientology goes further to call the reporter an enemy of freedom, slandering the critic, just as L. Ron Hubbard ordered in fair game.
Scientology, when will you learn that your tech fails?
"This article is a perfect example of scientology fair game in action. "
Fair Game is a LIE, and this is no worse than what Anonymous does to Scientologists everyday on EncyclopediaDramatica.com
Tom Newton
"Fair Game is a LIE"
You're full of shit tom. There is proof. Eat a bag of dicks scilon fucktard.
L. Ron Hubbard was a CON MAN
XENU XENU XENU
David Miscavige and upper management are SUPRESSIVES.
"Fair game is a lie"? Tell that to Paulette Cooper. Your scamming cult tried to do her in.
(Google the name for details.)
Also, fair game was never cancelled, contrary to scilon claims. The user of the term "fair game" was cancelled in written orders, not the policy itself.
Why lie about all this, Tom? It's public knowledge. It reeks of desperation.
Btw, I think Tom caused a thetan to explode, and he/they have withholds from OSA. They caused thetans to cluster.
OSA mocked up their past lives!
This blog site is one of the most slanted, biased, and dispicable sites I have ever seen. It is full of nothing but conjecture, black propaganda, and lies.
Anyone, including "Tom Newton", $cientologists, and $cientology's OSA, can post anything they want on the internet and CLAIM it is the work of "Anonymous."
You are dispicable "Tom Newton". Not to mention, you are endangering people's lives by posting their personal information on your blog site. I am keeping tabs. I guarantee you, if anything happens to those folks, the blood will be on your hands and you can be sure that the FBI and/or other agencies will be made aware of your actions and they will find you.
Cool it with the FBI threats. You cyber-paths happen to fall into the "enemy combatant" category.
Hey Tom, remember when you started this blog, and you pretended you hated Scientology as much as Anonymous?
I'm ambivalent about it. Why?
Tom
Really. What do you like about it, and what don't you like?
Also, some guy name Jonathon tells us you're pretending to be him, any comment on that?
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Really. What do you like about it, and what don't you like?
Also, some guy name Jonathon tells us you're pretending to be him, any comment on that?"
No thanks. I'll keep my opinions to myself on that matter. I certainly don't need any Anons trying to police my thoughts.
About Jonathon: he's another Anonymous cyber-stalking victim. They tried to smear me by linking me to the libel-fest to which he was subjected.
Your site is great Tom, keep it up! Truth always wins mate!
Best from Scotland
Tom please you need to chill out man you spend far to much time looking for dirt on a group of teens that dont have anything better to do than talk crap on the net. your making your self look realy quite angry and wasting your life trying to prove that nameless people are evil and when you do get a name you have to slap a picture of them on the net and call them a terrorist with no proff of this but your word- i would like to see court dates for these events of terrorism and verdics of the procedings in the furture or most people like my self would see this site for what it really is a
pretty pointless waste of time that tells lies
good luck you will never win
people belive what they want not silly web sites or news shows or goverments or angry men with funny web sites
just my point of view i hope that freedom of speech is allowed here with out being called names
^Real nice. The "voice of reason" here is defending bigotry.
Tom Newton
voice of reason here again !
so no up date on these court dates or crimes this girl you have posted?
and i find it rather odd that you your self act rather like a bigot by making comments about Santanist , which my i add has a much higher following than scientology , yet i assume alot less money, lawers and black PR web sites :)
faith is faith but crimes are crimes
i follow no faith and never will but people should be awolled to practice there faith , but crimes should be exposed , on both sides yes but you need proff to make your facts work tom and as of yet i have seen none regarding your
terrorism claims ?
and your keep refering to the FBI they are
investigating this and that how do you know this ? why have they done nothing like disanding this group for years ?
wheres reports of action they have taken ?
give me these facts and ill add a lot more points to you side of the arugment
rather than say i suport bigots (no need for name calling please i will just bend you own words to make a point )
look forword to you posting a much more longer reply with more backed up facts please add times and dates and web links if possibal
thanks for your time tom look forword to you reply
Satanism is not as big as Scientology.
Many Anonymous members have faced criminal charges.
Anonymous members are anti-free speech. Why do YOU think they wear masks?
Fair Game is a lie and has been repeatedly exposed as such. If you, like they, are just going to ignore facts, then I can't help you.
You are a bigot because you automatically made up your mind against Scientology. You are no better than racists who presume that all blacks are guilty no matter the evidence.
Kindly leave my country you fascist.
Tom
me again ! :)
voice of reson
oh dear tom that last statement has really proven nothinig now has it ?
1) Scientology is a small faith more people follow the rastafari movement and it its self is a small faith - also note slayer sell a hell of a lot of records devil worship must be a bigg thing theses days
2) many and Scientology followers have been jail i can give you a very long list of names dates and court procedings if you would like them inculding LRH and his list of involement in many crimes over many years also courts all over the world have cases on going as we speak
3)posting people pictures on web sites and saying they are involded terroism with no evidence of this is a form fair game its self i can quote it if you would like but i am sure you know what its states
4) i have read a lot of scientology books over the years and some points i can see have real vaule but i has also seen many crimes involing the chruch that out weigh its level of worth, also its way of puting people below its followers is very dark and menercing and of cource its cost if they really wanted to help people why make them pay so much money ?
5)you asume that i am white thats a generalization.
6)you asume that i live in your country
7) you restort yet again to name calling rather than give me facts dates and times ?
please tom we are both grown up here no need for such crass words please
hes gone to cry in the dark place i think :(
aww tom play the game or cant you have a real debate with out name calling or personal attacks >?
Hello Tom,
Having read your 'stuff' on this 'web site' I can only feel that you fit into that age old catergory of 'religious freaks'. Your arguments are obsessive and devoid of meaning your whole pesonna fits the religious crank mould. Why anyone should take you seriously let alone add comment begs belief (I had to post mine just to let you know what sane people think). People like you are so far gone mentally that it's a complete waste of time entering any form of debate. Good luck in heaven, only I have a feeling your not gonna make it.
^"Attack the attacker" huh?
I suppose it's easier than confronting the material. Ridiculing the messenger is the Liberal Fascist Way.
Basically, you've said I'm going to Hell. Well, I'd like to suggest that you do the same.
Tom
The Scientologist that run this site are a sad, sad group. Cults like scientology are the reasons people hate religons.
It is great how your cult is so over the top with its fairgame policy. It shows you for what you really are. Hypocrits and liars. Keep talking about human rights,and watch your bad karma reign down on you. Hope you took advantage of the tax cheaters amnesty. I see a poop-storm on the horizon for those who have squirlled stolen money awayforthe last 25 years.
LONG LIVE FRANCE!
wow, all the anon should come by here, so much material that alot of people haven't dug up yet.
Thanks Tom, The vids on Nathan were fantastic. They were a great example of journalism too, it seemed as though when it all started that it was about 'attacks by anon, the demented hacker group' turned into "group of activists"
Hmm, just wondering how this investigation got ignited... Perhaps a certain group who needed to slander their protestors.
Well it would be in the best interest of Co$ to defend themselves so I'm not going to discredit them for trying, but anon has no motive to protest other than helping their fellow man selflessly, there is no personal game against Co$, but their Fail is such Lulz.
Funny though how I have not seen a single person supporting your side of the story
PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_%28Scientology%29#Cancellations anyone smart enough to understand english sentense structure can read that only the verbal decleration of FAIR GAME was put to a stop, but the policy on SP handling was never canceled, FAIR GAME still exists.
Sure, go ahead and shout back at the wall that 'FAIR GAME' doesn't exist, that's because you are ordered to say that.
^The only "fair game" is coming from Anonymous' side.
FAIR GAME IS A LIE
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