From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How's the blood preassure...?
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:55:10 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

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From: <samlubell at verizon.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:42 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How's the blood preassure...?

> >From: Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
> >Date: Tue May 03 16:37:02 CDT 2005
> >To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
> >Subject: [WSFA] How's the blood preassure...?
>
> >"Suneel Ratan of Wired knows where to find true sf innovation:
> >`While most sci-fi -- whether on TV, in movies or books -- remains
> >aimed toward science geeks or overgrown adolescents, producer
> >Ronald Moore and the Sci-Fi Channel have essentially reinvented
> >the genre by giving it an edgy, current, broad-based appeal.'  "
>
> Sounds like a journalist recycling a press release written by someone
with no experience with science fiction.  That's the sort of thing that pr
writers write, not journalists.  (And I'm speaking as a pr writer)
>
> And there's no way you can "reinvent the genre" simply by remaking an old
tv show, however appealing you make it.

What Mike left out was the heading for that little squib: "As Others See
Us."

--Ted White