Tony Ortega On Scientology and Paulette Cooper

Necronomipod

Cool Down Media

True Crime, Comedy

4.6 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Grab a beer and join us tonight for our interview with Tony Ortega! Tony is well known for his daily blog about the Church of Scientology called The Underground Bunker. Previously he was executive editor of The Raw Story, a journalist at the New Times LA, the editor-in-chief of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times, and the editor-in-chief of The Village Voice. He has been seen on documentaries like HBO’s Going Clear, and Leah Remini’s Scientology and the Aftermath on A&E. In 2015 he authored The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, about journalist Paulette Cooper and the Church of Scientology's attempts to silence her after her own book was published. Underground Bunker Unbreakable Miss Lovely https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Hey guys, so unfortunately, due to me being sick, we were unable to record Scientology
0:39.7	part for this week, but I did have the privilege of interviewing Tony Ortega earlier in the
0:45.2	week.
0:46.2	Tony is well known for his daily blog about the Church of Scientology called the Underground
0:50.3	Bunker.
0:51.3	Previously, he was the executive editor of the raw story, a journalist at the New Times
0:56.9	LA, the editor-in-chief of the Broward Palm Beach New Times, and editor-in-chief of
1:02.9	the Village Voice.
1:04.5	He has been seen on documentaries like HBO's Going Clear, and Lear Remini's Scientology
1:09.6	in the aftermath on A&E.
1:12.2	In 2015, he authored the Unbreakable Miss Lovely, how the Church of Scientology tried to
1:17.2	destroy Paulette Cooper about journalist Paulette Cooper, and the Church of Scientology's
1:21.7	attempts to silence her after her own book was published.
1:25.3	So with that, here's my interview with Tony Ortega, and we'll be back next week with
1:29.1	Scientology part 4.
1:32.7	Thank you so much for doing this.
1:34.0	I really appreciate it.
1:36.5	It's an awesome way to kick off doing interviews for us.
1:39.3	Sure.
1:40.3	Let's do it.
1:41.3	Yeah, so to start off, can you just give a little history into your career and how you got
1:47.0	to the point of being the main source for all Scientology news?
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