Salon.com > Atlantic http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 21:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Atlantic’s Scientology apology http://www.salon.com/2013/01/15/the_atlantics_scientology_apology/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/15/the_atlantics_scientology_apology/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:27:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13172043 The fallout from Atlantic Media's Church of Scientology advertorial continues. After a firestorm of criticism on Monday night, Alantic Media removed its "sponsored content" tribute to the great wisdom and leadership of David Miscavige, the "ecclesiastical leader" of the Church of Scientology, from its website. On Tuesday morning, the publishing company apologized.

We screwed up. It shouldn't have taken a wave of constructive criticism -- but it has -- to alert us that we've made a mistake, possibly several mistakes. We now realize that as we explored new forms of digital advertising, we failed to update the policies that must govern the decisions we make along the way. It's safe to say that we are thinking a lot more about these policies after running this ad than we did beforehand. In the meantime, we have decided to withdraw the ad until we figure all of this out. We remain committed to and enthusiastic about innovation in digital advertising, but acknowledge -- sheepishly -- that we got ahead of ourselves. We are sorry, and we're working very hard to put things right.

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