X-Message-Number: 2040 Date: 29 Mar 93 23:31:39 EST From: Charles Platt <> Subject: CRYONICS Boston Globe To:Cryonet The interesting thing about publicity is that it begets more publicity. The OMNI contest led (through some linkage I cannot currently fathom) to the Boston Globe deciding to run an item on cryonics. The staff writer who did the piece was openly skeptical, verging on hostile, when she interviewed me. (At one point she described neuropreservation as "totally looney-tunes.") Still, she did a reasonably balanced piece when all was said and done. And as a result, an AM radio station picked it up and did ITS version (a half-hour interview, this afternoon, in which the Alcor 800 number was mentioned twice and the address for the Omni contest was read on the air by the show host). In my limited experience, radio/TV people seem more non-judgmental than print journalists, though that may be just because they are interviewing someone publicly and don't necessarily want to trash that person. --Charles Platt Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2040