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"Well, buddy, you got it," he told Sweeney, "Right here, right now. Davis accused the BBC man of referring to Scientology as a cult in an effort to get a reaction.
He said he was "very disappointed" by the reporter's conduct.īut this morning the BBC also showed a clip of Davis getting a little short with Sweeney. Sweeney has apologized, and his boss said he does not "condone" Sweeney's behavior. "Do you know how much criticism I have had to take in my life?" he asked. When I put that claim to Rinder, the Scientologist spokersman, he laughed. Sandy Smith, the editor of Panorama, the documentary strand behind "Scientology and Me," appeared on "BBC Breakfast" and called the Church of Scientology an "extraordinary organization" that has "no way of dealing with any kind of criticism at all." The BBC has confronted the furor head-on. "Completely untrue," a BBC representative told ABC News. The Church of Scientology accuses the BBC of staging an anti-Scientology demonstration in London. John Travolta, one of the religion's most high-profile devotees, wrote to the BBC, accusing Sweeney of "personal prejudices, bigotry and animosity." The church is circulating a DVD of its own documentary about Sweeney's investigation to British politicians, and is setting up a Web site called "panorama-exposed." The incident has pitted two powerful institutions against each other.
"You did not hear or record all the interview." Halfway through his rant, Sweeney asked, very calmly, "Do you understand, did you understand that?" "You were not there at the beginning of that interview," bellowed Sweeney. Just inches from Davis' face, Sweeney began to shout with the ferocity of a hair dryer on high. This is how it happened: Sweeney was wrapping up a seven-day shoot in Los Angeles when Davis approached him to complain angrily that Sweeney had been too easy on an interviewee.
CULT ANIMOSITY SHOWS NO SIGN UP TV
"If you are interested in becoming a TV journalist, it is a fine example of how not to do it." "I look like an exploding tomato and shout like a jet engine," Sweeney wrote today on the BBC's Web site.
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