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Fox's axed man blames Scientologists

Title: Fox's axed man blames Scientologists
Date: Saturday, 13 June 2009
Publisher: NY Daily News (New York)
Authors: Joanna Molloy, George Rush
Main source: nydailynews.com

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Fox News bowed to pressure from Kelly Preston, Tom Cruise and other members of the Church of Scientology when it fired columnist Roger Friedman, the entertainment journo is expected to charge in a wrongful termination lawsuit this week. In April, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. announced it had “terminated” Friedman after he wrote on FoxNews.com about watching a pirated Internet copy of 20th Century Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” Friedman is convinced that was a cover story. Last August, Friedman went to Memphis ... [Read the rest at nydailynews.com]