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TG1
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Only you can decide if it would be best for you to give interviews to mainstream media in your country about your departure from the Church of Scientology.
It's actually a risky proposition in my book. BUT depending on you and your goals, it could be a risk worth taking. You will need to appreciate the certain risks and possible rewards of doing so.
As someone who works a bit with media and who appreciates their needs and uses, I would say: Be thoughtful and careful about what you agree to do with the media and understand clearly why you're doing it.
Below are some maunderings that might help your deliberations.
If you wouldn't mind having your interviews aired as sound-bites on Youtube and perhaps on future television shows about Scientology in your country during the rest of your life and having your obituary reference your 'anti-Church of Scientology spokesperson' role ... and if you have a legitimate soul-deep mission to expose the CoS's wrongs and crimes about which you personally know ... and if you or others can offer evidence of any accusations you wish to make about the CoS ... and if you come across as persuasive and authentic and attractive and sympathetic ... and if your personality and your life are such that they could withstand the slings and arrows and slurs the CoS is likely to counter or attack with, then then perhaps you should accept the interview invitations.
Amy Scobee comes to mind as someone who meets all these criteria, and she rocks at it. A lot of the Aussies who are out front and center on their Down Under initiatives meet these criteria and rock at it. People who went through the Lisa McPherson days (who are on this board) can advise you about what they went through and what their thoughts now are about it.
Remember that if you do any interviews, the media spokespersons likely won't be doing this to help you out ... but to fill their programming needs. They're doing it (mostly) to enhance their personal and professional reputations and for the ratings. They won't repeat all the 'good stuff' you tell them. They'll leave some of your best stuff on the cutting room floor. They will have their own editorial themes set by the show's producers, which could range from Miscavige is violent and Hubbard was looneytunes and you were led astray by the evil churchies to ... hey, here's today's nut, so let's all laugh at her expense. If you can find out what their theme is and you're down with it, so much the better. If not, your own message will be smothered by theirs. Even the media pros with decades of experience struggle to get their message heard, and they're not all that successful sometimes.
If you aren't sure you're up to all that and/or qualified on all these fronts, then your decision is more complicated. Should / could you do it for the lulz? That depends on you and what you consider lulz. And whether the lulz will age well in your own life and culture(s).
There are costs and benefits to every event we create in our lives. In my own life, I just try to "know before I go." But not everybody makes decisions like that, but are more spontaneous, and that's fine, too.
I do realize the above advice sounds pretty up-tight and conservative. Normally, I'm not that way. However, when you enter the public media spotlight, you don't have much control about what happens to your story and your image. Others have a lot more control than you do. Therefore, it is in your best interests to understand as well as you can, as I said earlier, the certain risks and possible rewards of that adventure.
Whatever your decision, I wish the best possible outcome for you personally.
TG1
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