What do you expect after Fifth Estate program

JH

With all the publicity around the fifth estate program being shown tomorrow night on CBC, do you think this will make a big impact in the general public?

Edited by - jh on 29 January 2003 6:44:36

Simon

Another major TV programme by another major broadcaster in another country ... I would expect more people to be aware of the WTS and the danger they present whether current JWs take notice or not.

Tthe evidence is that they do take not and have massively reduced what time and money they give to the society.

JH

Congratulations for your 7000+ posts Simon

Scully

I expect that immediately after the show tomorrow night..... the chat room here is going to be full!!!

Right after Dateline aired last May, I remember counting over 50 names in the chat room!! People who weren't able to see it were there waiting to hear from those of us who did. It was absolutely awesome!!

Love, Scully

Stan Conroy

Nothing will change. JW's will still be JW's, and nobody else will care about the little obscure cult. (Just like now)

Stan

jgnat

As much as we would like to see an immediate impact, it is unlikely. What is possible, however, is that the public will have a vague, negative, impression about those neat, well dressed fellas at the door. Instead of "those pesky JW's" it could become "those dangerous freaks". Their precious squeaky-clean image will be tarnished. It will become ever more embarrassing and demoralizing for the R&F to show their face door-to-door.

I see a slow, expensive decline for the society in North America and Europe. Imagine slightly dotty geriatrics in polyester jumpsuits limping along with their walkers from door-to-door. I just can't imagine the GB being smart enough to embrace the electronic age and go WWW with their message.

Simon

There is a growing mountain of respected media coverage, all of it negative and none of it answered by the WTS. This will be available for future people who decide to research the religion being offered to them by someone at the door.

I'll try and get the video available for us poor non-canucks to watch as soon as I can

expatbrit

I don't think there will be a mass exodus in Canada. But I have always liked Hawkaw's term: "inoculating" the general public against the Watchtower. These programmes will have a cumulative effect of doing just that. At a certain point, as with the Catholics, there will be a mental linkage in the minds of the general public: Jehovah's Witnesses = paedophile coverup. At that point, (and this may be already happening) the balance will shift. The Watchtower will no longer be able to just batten down the hatches and hope to ride out the storm. They will have to take action to do something to remove that image, or suffer a long-term decline as older members die off without being replaced by new members.

There are other more immediate consequences of the programme I'm hoping for, but I really have no idea of the probability of them happening, so I'll shutup!

Expatbrit

Scully

expatbrit writes:

There are other more immediate consequences of the programme I'm hoping for, but I really have no idea of the probability of them happening, so I'll shutup!

Didn't you assign someone to monitor the "Depends" count at Georgetown tomorrow night??

Love, Scully

Gerard

I'd expect someone to [at least - translate] create a documentary in Spanish and in French, that will broaden the audience to several millions in many non-anglophone nations.

You know, spread the truth.

What do you expect after Fifth Estate program

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