http://forums.whyweprotest.net/15-media/kesq-online-updates-posted-41747/
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=10017101
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Catherine Fraser, Public Relations person for Golden Era Productions, the audio/visual team for the Church of Scientology, was also in the hallway talking to me and a print reporter for The Californian newspaper.
I told Catherine Fraser I remembered another station got an inside of Golden Era and we would like to do the same. She said she would set that up and would be proud to show Golden Era in action. Upon leaving, I told her we wished to do it before the end of December.
......... I called Fraser once every week until she stated that because Golden Era had so many end of year projects going on, she could not line up the production crews for a tour before January. We both tentatively agreed to January 27th for the date our cameras would be allowed inside.
One week before January 27th, I called Fraser and she told me once again that she was having difficulty setting the tour up. ............ she stated that the soonest we could do the story was late March. We ended the phone call amicably, but because of my deadlines to air any story on the subject, such a delay was unacceptable.
............... Instead of taking a regular news vehicle, I decided we needed to bring our KESQ Live Truck. This van, called "Eagle Eye," has a telescopic mast for microwave TV signal transmission. ...................., I knew we could use the high-powered camera on top of the 50 foot mast to give ourselves a tour of the headquarters complex.
.......................... I received a cell phone call from Catherine Fraser and an unrecognized Los Angeles area number at this time. Because I was operating the mast camera, I did not answer the phone.
While interviewing attorney and protestor Graham Berry, I was tapped on the shoulder by Muriel, an employee of IntBase. She gave me a card with Tommy Davis's number, which matched the unrecognized number in the Los Angeles area.
Davis, Scientology's head of Public Relations, wanted to do an interview within days at the Hollywood Celebrity Center. We agreed to Wednesday. He told me the interview would be at 11:00 AM ........................
We arrived at 10:40 AM. A guard told us to wait in the parking lot within the Celebrity Center complex. At 11:10 AM, we were joined by a woman who told us Davis was on his way.
At 11:40 AM, we walked into the lobby of the Celebrity Center, ..................... Davis greeted us and walked us to one of the hotel rooms to set up our camera and tripod. I brought in a cardboard box of materiel that I intended to use during the interview.
[ Short verion, Davis had KESQ reporter watch a introduction to Church of Scientology DVD, videos of taped sci interviews (people stating how the Church improved their lives) and the Anonymous hate crimes DVD
After a while, my photographer was asked to join us to watch more videos showing computer rendered flybys of churches under construction. Davis told us many things about the Church in between each DVD. This lasted until 1:00 PM. ]
At that time, I stood up and told Tommy Davis that we needed to get some of the statements he was making on tape for our interview. .......................... After a further 15 minutes of discussion, he said he was ready for the interview.
We were walked back to the hotel room with our camera gear. ................ Mr. Davis did not follow us in. .................... After sitting down in the room for another half hour, I made the decision that if it reached 2:15, we would gather our equipment and leave.
Minutes before, Davis walked in and we began the interview. The cardboard box I brought in contained the booklet Supervisor Stone gave me after his December presentation titled, "Anonymous: Who They Are and What They Do." It also contained a laptop to play the video Choquette gave me as well as the video we shot of the "eagle" post above IntBase. A large binder containing Hubbard's handwritten "Technical Notes on Operating Thetans" was also in this box.
The rest you can see for yourself in the full interview posted on KESQ.com.
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=10017101
A few selected qoutes
Catherine Fraser, Public Relations person for Golden Era Productions, the audio/visual team for the Church of Scientology, was also in the hallway talking to me and a print reporter for The Californian newspaper.
I told Catherine Fraser I remembered another station got an inside of Golden Era and we would like to do the same. She said she would set that up and would be proud to show Golden Era in action. Upon leaving, I told her we wished to do it before the end of December.
......... I called Fraser once every week until she stated that because Golden Era had so many end of year projects going on, she could not line up the production crews for a tour before January. We both tentatively agreed to January 27th for the date our cameras would be allowed inside.
One week before January 27th, I called Fraser and she told me once again that she was having difficulty setting the tour up. ............ she stated that the soonest we could do the story was late March. We ended the phone call amicably, but because of my deadlines to air any story on the subject, such a delay was unacceptable.
............... Instead of taking a regular news vehicle, I decided we needed to bring our KESQ Live Truck. This van, called "Eagle Eye," has a telescopic mast for microwave TV signal transmission. ...................., I knew we could use the high-powered camera on top of the 50 foot mast to give ourselves a tour of the headquarters complex.
.......................... I received a cell phone call from Catherine Fraser and an unrecognized Los Angeles area number at this time. Because I was operating the mast camera, I did not answer the phone.
While interviewing attorney and protestor Graham Berry, I was tapped on the shoulder by Muriel, an employee of IntBase. She gave me a card with Tommy Davis's number, which matched the unrecognized number in the Los Angeles area.
Davis, Scientology's head of Public Relations, wanted to do an interview within days at the Hollywood Celebrity Center. We agreed to Wednesday. He told me the interview would be at 11:00 AM ........................
We arrived at 10:40 AM. A guard told us to wait in the parking lot within the Celebrity Center complex. At 11:10 AM, we were joined by a woman who told us Davis was on his way.
At 11:40 AM, we walked into the lobby of the Celebrity Center, ..................... Davis greeted us and walked us to one of the hotel rooms to set up our camera and tripod. I brought in a cardboard box of materiel that I intended to use during the interview.
[ Short verion, Davis had KESQ reporter watch a introduction to Church of Scientology DVD, videos of taped sci interviews (people stating how the Church improved their lives) and the Anonymous hate crimes DVD
After a while, my photographer was asked to join us to watch more videos showing computer rendered flybys of churches under construction. Davis told us many things about the Church in between each DVD. This lasted until 1:00 PM. ]
At that time, I stood up and told Tommy Davis that we needed to get some of the statements he was making on tape for our interview. .......................... After a further 15 minutes of discussion, he said he was ready for the interview.
We were walked back to the hotel room with our camera gear. ................ Mr. Davis did not follow us in. .................... After sitting down in the room for another half hour, I made the decision that if it reached 2:15, we would gather our equipment and leave.
Minutes before, Davis walked in and we began the interview. The cardboard box I brought in contained the booklet Supervisor Stone gave me after his December presentation titled, "Anonymous: Who They Are and What They Do." It also contained a laptop to play the video Choquette gave me as well as the video we shot of the "eagle" post above IntBase. A large binder containing Hubbard's handwritten "Technical Notes on Operating Thetans" was also in this box.
The rest you can see for yourself in the full interview posted on KESQ.com.
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