X-Message-Number: 21345 From: Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:30:57 EST Subject: That's spelled "A.L.C.O.R. --part1_c.b6ddc78.2b967511_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A cryonetter said: "Wow, what's with the terrible article in the "Arizona Republic"? http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/0304sr-cryogenics04Z8.h tml Loook at this thing: - 0: Successful reanimations. - 0: Attempted reanimations. Or how about: Still, the attention has not drawn a significant number of new members, said Lemler, who resembles the late poet Allen Ginsberg. Who cares? Not only is the quality of the reporting poor, but it is heavily biased." Good observation! In the old days of cryonics this would have considered one of the better articles on Alcor. I got a feeling (when I was being interviewed by this reporter) that he felt he needed to get some sensationalism and yet not look completely like the National Inquirer. Its almost as if cryonics would be boring in these newer times, if there was not something unusual about a particular patient. As I said in an earlier post. A negative spin like this reported tried to install has little or no effect on those people who might consider cryonics - they spelled Alcor correctly, Dr. Lemler did a wonderful job (I am sure he is aware of the potential negative spin some reporters are going to think they need to get more people to read their particular article - and Jerry used the story to Alcor's great advantage with those that count). Alcor can't avoid bad reporters but they can get good milage out of them. Keep up the good work Alcor. David --part1_c.b6ddc78.2b967511_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21345