Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 118. Chapters: Interviews, Investigative journalism, Journalism sourcing, Newswriting, Reporting specialties, Documentary film, Gonzo journalism, The New Yorker, News presenter, Voyage au pays des nouveaux gourous, Center for Public Integrity, New Journalism, And the Band Played On, Investigative Reporters and Editors, October surprise conspiracy theory, A Glimpse of Hell, California Watch, Sarah Palin interviews with Katie Couric, War correspondent, Muckraker, ProPublica, Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, Ida M. Tarbell, Job interview, Project Censored, Harper's Magazine, Top Secret America, New York World Exposé of the Ku Klux Klan, Media transparency, Video news release, Tehelka as Metaphor, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, Creative nonfiction, Confidentiality, The New Islander, Five Ws, Strange to Relate, The Nixon Interviews, Günter Wallraff, Press release, Reporters' privilege, The 50 Greatest Documentaries, Paul D'Ambrosio, The Real News, Guernica Magazine, Birthday cake interview, The Chicagoan, Protection of sources, Inverted pyramid, Press videoconferencing, News leak, The Rhetoric of Drugs, Interviews of Osama bin Laden, Center for Investigative Reporting, The Rolling Stone Interview, Organized crime and corruption reporting project, Lead paragraph, February 2003 Saddam Hussein interview, Disaster Accountability Project, Press gallery, News conference, Centre for Investigative Journalism, Radio offshore, Rough Justice, Gaggle, Kassa, The Cook Report, Free Flow of Information Act, Analysis, Operation Merlin, CounterSpin, Parachute journalism, Baruch Ivcher, Voice of OC, Watchdog journalism, Journalese, Portable Database Image, The Treason of the Senate, Investigative Reporting Workshop, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, Hetq Online, Teacher's Diary, Independent sources, Bus plunge, Shoe-leather reporting, The Truth: Gujarat 2002 ¿ Tehelka report, Undercover Teacher, List of U.S. presidential interviews, Satellite media tour, News analyst, Statewatch, Undercover journalism, Blind item, Follow the Money. Excerpt: Voyage au pays des nouveaux gourous (Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus), a controversial television-documentary, presented an investigation of the activities of Landmark Education. The investigative journalism program Pièces à Conviction started filming the documentary in 2003, and the channel France 3 broadcast it in France on 24 May 2004. The documentary has resulted in various legal repercussions in France, the Netherlands, Australia and the United States. Werner Erhard, a California-based former encyclopedia salesman born John Paul Rosenberg, created the Erhard Seminars Training (est) course in 1971. est was a form of Large Group Awareness Training, and was part of the Human Potential Movement. est was a four-day, 60-hour self-help program given to groups of 250 people at a time. The program was very intensive: each day would contain 15¿20 hours of instruction. During the training, est personnel utilized jargon to convey key concepts, and participants had to agree to certain rules which remained in effect for the duration of the course. Participants were taught that they were responsible for their life outcomes, and were promised a dramatic change in their self-perception. est was controversial: critics characterized the training methods as brainwashing, and suggested that the program had fascistic and narcissistic tendencies. Proponents asserted that it had a p...