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Television programme: SWEENEY INVESTIGATES
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14 January 2013
Following my story about Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology, author John Sweeney has asked me to point out he criticised some BBC bosses as overpaid morons at his launch party, not his colleagues.
“They’re not morons and I never said that. The ‘morons’ quote came from my speech at a lively launch party for my book. I referred to my 2007 interview with Scientologist Anne Archer when I tried in vain to get her to admit some flaw in her church. I said that I liked the BBC very much, but, to be critical, some of the bosses were overpaid morons.”
