Micheal Crichton’s Mediasaurus Article 1993
In the Fall of 1995, I passed along Micheal Crichton’s Mediasaurus Wired magazine story about the rotten state of the trade to the head of the journalism department at UKC. I thought the piece was thought provoking. I thought he would enjoy it. I thought that was fine.
How naive was I? Yes I am from a small town. Yes Wired was this strange glowing-beacon-object on the rack of the neighbourhood Mike’s Milk. Yes I had read, and liked, Crichton’s novels.
I was wholly unaware that I had made a faux pas. I had essentially recommended Valley of The Dolls to a feminist as — you know — worth reading. This guy, at the end of his run at an East Coast liberal arts school, wouldn’t touch anything written by Michael Crichton even with a graduate student grant.
He is retired now, but Slate is revisiting the Crichton predictions here.
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