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@Karakorum
Yes, Leah has done TREMENDOUS work to expose Scientology abuse.
Yes, that part in the interview does ignore all the non-rich public who get abused and sucked dry.
Yes, Leah is not above being given opinions on how to improve her approach, and we should not shut people down for dating to voice opinions on the performance of our own Elites, who are human, not perfect, and who can occasionally benefit from being reminded of that.
All that said, my viewpoint is that Leah, judging her body of work as a whole, has done a TREMENDOUS job of exposing the abuse suffered by ALL members of Scientology.
Fair enough, but let me add another facet to the conversation about Leah. She is first and foremost an actress whose entire professional career is focused on performing in STORIES. Tv shows are stories. Movies are stories. Her show is Stories.
Anyone who works in any medium concerned with STORIES is intimately familiar with storytelling conventions, narrative threads, holding audience attention, creating compelling and simple narratives and keeping the narrative flow simple enough to be ENTERTAINING.
I spend a lot of years in various writing and narrative arts.
I have taught many others how to present ideas in different businesses I have owned. Some of the most brilliant people who have worked for my companies (genius designers, engineers, physicists, marketing, manufacturing, et al) I learned often had HORRIBLE story telling skills and despite their being perfectly brilliant and charming people, would LOSE THE AUDIENCE (in board rooms or other meetings/presentations) time after time.
No matter how many times I explained it to them or showed it to them in real situations, they could simply not pick up the rhythm and "dance" of how it has to work.
WHAT WAS THE #1 MISTAKE?
It was always burying the other meeting participants in an avalanche of factoids.
This may seem esoteric to people who are not familiar with the craft of storytelling but the greatest artists, entrepreneurs, politicians, educators and business visionaries all have to be masters of storytelling in order to succeed.
I have seen crushing failures when my top execs literally MURDERED a presentation/interview because they were slaves to "factoids". They could not stop shooting a firehose of facts at the assembled parties. Drowned the living shit out of them...because---well "they just needed more facts!" LOL
Here's the point. Leah is a great storyteller. First time i met her was as a really young girl, long before acting. She has a natural gift with communication, she is entirely brilliant and natural at it and always was!
She knows full well that a prime time interview has a very huge audience that crosses over many demographics. She picks her story elements carefully and delivers her message as well as anyone that is out there on social media. People absolutely LOVE her personality and her style of explaining and responding to questions. She's both charming, and hilarious.
Someone who doesn't know fuck-all about giving such major league interviews can sit back and criticize her because she was not flooding the airwaves with all those VITAL VITAL VITAL factoids. But she didn't do that because she didn't want to kill her audience. Someone who believes she terribly erred by not going into an explanation about the different between STAFF and PUBLIC is someone that has NEVER had to make presentations or use storytelling elements in their profession.
She got her message across. She doesn't need to include a firehose of facts to do it. She picks the facts and elements that make the story work and she delivers it.
I work in these industries and I train people that work for my companies to focus their stories simply enough to not kill their audience.
So, here's the test. I'd like to see any one of the harsh critics who know more than Leah how to do prime time interviews---I'd like to see them get on a live mike in front of a live camera and do it.
If anyone here has worked in TV, FILM, DOCUMENTARIES, RADIO, ADVERTISING or any similar mediums, they would know that person without those core storytelling skills would be a complete disaster trying to do what Leah does so brilliantly
I am not saying that Leah or anyone else is not subject to criticism. But to take their criticism seriously, they would have to know a tiny bit about what they are talking about.
Her show and her interviews (Larry King, Joe Rogan, Ellen, et al) have all been SMASH RATINGS hits. That was her focus and she succeeded.
If anyone thinks she missed vital factoids they are welcome to buy a set of BASICS BOOKS and mail it to Larry King. LOL
