[PJ-Comix]

Michael Crichton: Always ahead of his time.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[americanophile]

condolences

[Unam Sanctam]

Sad and most untimely — we now need every hand we can get in the fight against the socialist global warming push.

[CaribouCrossing]

I am so sorry to hear that Michael Crichton has passed away. He was one of my favorite authors. It was only about three months ago that someone lent me his book, “State of Fear”. An excellent read for those interested in the myth of global warming.

RIP, Mr. Crichton. You will be missed.

[Borges]

“In part, it is a failure to respond to changing technology - particularly the computer-mediated technology known collectively as the Net.”

[wideawake]

The MSM triumphed last night.

From 2000 to 2006 they conducted a focused and unrelenting campaign on destroying President Bush and the GOP majority.

They succeeded in smashing the President's approval ratings and unseating the GOP majority.

They then turned their entire attention and focus to electing an inexperienced, unrepentant Marxist to the presidency.

They succeeded in that endeavor as well.

The MSM has enhanced its cultural power since 1993, not diminished it.

They are no longer cheerleaders. They are kingmakers. They literally created Barack Obama from nothing and made him the most powerful man in the world.

Crichton, God rest his soul, was wrong.

[aquila48]

Really sorry to hear that - he was one of my favorite authors... loved his “Timeline”.

[buffyt]

I am reading STATE OF FEAR right now, and it would make an excellent movie! Sad to hear of his passing. Very sad. I had hoped to read many many more new novels by him.

Also, he didn’t believe in the globull warming hoax.

[KoRn]

Wow! What a shock!!

RIP...

[united1000]

Sad to hear this, prayers to his family. I had not read his article “Mediasaurus”. Talk about timing.

[LS]

Great author. His “State of Fear” is the first big book to take on the idiocy of “global warming.”

[steelydan]

That’s really a shame. The man was brilliant. I enjoyed his books like Jurrasic Park, Sphere, Congo, Eaters of the Dead (13th Warrior), all great movies (except they could’ve handled Congo a little better, the book was way way better than the movie. I didn’t read the books, but I enjoyed the movies of his books including The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Twister, Westworld, Coma, Looker, Runaway, Rising Sun, and Disclosure.
Seems like I have alot of his books left to read and am looking forward to it.

[freekitty]

May he rest in peace.

[Kent C]

A sad day. Crichton was a textbook example of how the media treats people. He was their ‘darling’ and genius as long as he was writing along (or not against) their ideology, but when he wrote “State of Fear”, he lost his IQ and integrity, according to them. Not only did he expose the hoax of global warming but also shewn for all to see, the hoax of an “objective media”.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Sad Ping.

[Myrddin]

One of my favorite authors. I suppose his battle with cancer explains why "ER" is winding down the final season.

[BallyBill]

The “Andromeda Strain (1971)” is a regular on some of the cable channels I get. A poorly made movie that is great just because of Crichton's writing.

[LakeLady]

Condolences to his family and friends. The earth has lost a friend and good steward who never bought into the career making global warming nonsense.

This is a very sad day for two reasons now.

[EDINVA]

Mr. Crichton really accomplished quite a lot in this lifetime, may he rest in peace.

My beach reading last summer (’07) was Crichton’s global warming tome, “State of Fear” ... not your typical beach book, but loaded with footnotes documenting his arguments. I was delighted to give my book to another to read.

[Zakeet]

Michael Crichton: Always ahead of his time.

From the article:

I am the author of a novel about dinosaurs, a novel about US-Japanese trade relations, and a forthcoming novel about sexual harassment - what some people have called my dinosaur trilogy. But I want to focus on another dinosaur, one that may be on the road to extinction. I am referring to the American media. And I use the term extinction literally. To my mind, it is likely that what we now understand as the mass media will be gone within ten years. Vanished, without a trace.

There has been evidence of impending extinction for a long time. We all know statistics about the decline in newspaper readers and network television viewers. The polls show increasingly negative public attitudes toward the press - and with good reason. A generation ago, Paddy Chayevsky's Network looked like an outrageous farce. Today, when Geraldo Rivera bares his buttocks, when the New York Times misquotes Barbie (the doll), and NBC fakes news footage of exploding trucks, Network looks like a documentary.

[Snip]

The media are an industry, and their product is information. And along with many other American industries, the American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy but it's basically junk. So people have begun to stop buying it.

This was simply too good not to put in this thread.