From: Russell Whitaker (russell_whitaker@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 15:16:49 MDT
I just noticed the "Alcor on KRON" thread, figured
I'd forward this related thread from exi-bay.
FYI,
Russell
>From: "Russell Whitaker" <russell_whitaker@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: exi-bay@extropy.org
>To: exi-bay@extropy.org
>Subject: RE: TONIGHT: Ch4 News 11pm on cryonics (FYI)
>Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 20:45:02 -0000
>
>I should add (to myself) that Alcor's people did _brilliantly_
>to have their URL (www.alcor.org) very prominently displayed
>on the front of every dewar in the storage bay! I almost rolled
>on the flooring laughing: _there's_ the answer to the problem
>they'd been having for many years to the question of how to
>get news organizations to provide contact info!
>
>Russell
>
>>From: "Russell Whitaker" <russell_whitaker@hotmail.com>
>>Reply-To: exi-bay@extropy.org
>>To: exi-bay@extropy.org
>>Subject: RE: TONIGHT: Ch4 News 11pm on cryonics (FYI)
>>Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 20:26:31 -0000
>>
>>Yes, it was an unusually positive spin.
>>Interestingly, it seems that the press are being influenced
>>by the general atmosphere of increasingly rapid technological
>>change that most people now take for granted. The same thing
>>could not be said 10 years ago.
>>
>>Factors which seemed to have influenced this shift in spin,
>>at least from the buzzwords and comparisons made in last night's
>>broadcast:
>>- cloning is now considered inevitable (however misunderstood
>>the term actually is by the general viewing public)
>>- cryonics has been covered so much it's losing its ghoulish
>>connotations in most conventional minds
>>- people seem to expect technological change on a daily
>>basis.
>>
>>Russell
>>
>>>From: "Jones, Spike" <spike.jones@lmco.com>
>>>Reply-To: exi-bay@extropy.org
>>>To: "'exi-bay@extropy.org'" <exi-bay@extropy.org>
>>>Subject: RE: TONIGHT: Ch4 News 11pm on cryonics (FYI)
>>>Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 13:02:09 -0700
>>>
>>>positive spin, for a change. ralph merkle was looking good. spike
>>>
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: Russell Whitaker [SMTP:russell_whitaker@hotmail.com]
>>> > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:24 PM
>>> > To: exi-bay@extropy.org
>>> > Subject: TONIGHT: Ch4 News 11pm on cryonics (FYI)
>>> >
>>> > I was just called by a friend who told me that Ch4 News
>>> > (Bay area) will be featuring something about cryonics at
>>> > 11pm (2300PST 3 May 2001). That's tonight, ~1.5 hours from
>>> > now.
>>> >
>>> > I have no other details. Don't know what it's about or what
>>> > sort of spin they'll put on it.
>>> >
>>> > FYI,
>>> > Russell
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