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Reader's Digest on Cruise Control

Title: Reader's Digest on Cruise Control
Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005
Publisher: Radar Online
Main source: web.archive.org

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Did Reader’s Digest sell its soul to the Church of Scientology to get Tom Cruise on the cover of its current issue? According to several sources inside the world’s largest-selling monthly, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jackie Leo, wanted Cruise as her cover boy but was impeded by the magazine’s history with the controversial group. Back in 1991, Reader’s Digest excerpted an in-depth investigative piece from Time magazine entitled Scientology: The Cult of Greed. Among other things, the article asserted that the Church ... [Read the rest at web.archive.org]