CNN

[Doug Millison]

My comment concerned only the nature of the CNN's story, not how it
originated.  Pynchon is a serious writer. Some book reviewers have taken
M&D seriously and have written about it with understanding and style, but
it's difficult to imagine a U.S. mass media news outlet treating Pynchon in
any sort of depth, or with any sort of sensitivity, outside of the book
review realm, where the tendency is to tabloid treatment of "newsmakers" or
"celebrities".  It's hard to imagine that's what the Pynchon/Holt PR
machine intended in this case, if in fact they were the originating source
for the CNN story.

-Doug

At 5:45 PM 6/8/97, Jules Siegel wrote:
>At 01:53 PM 06/8/97 -0800, millison at online-journalist.com (Doug Millison)
>wrote:
>>You could also say, we deserve to be treated the way we treat others.
>>Pynchon writes books that respect and make irresistible, thrilling demands
>>on our intelligence -- in return, he receives the hack broadcast journo
>>treatment. It all seems so Pynchonesque.
>
>He should have stayed with Epoch, then. He's got two press agents, a web
>site and an advertising agency pumping frantically to produce this exposure.
>
>
>--Jules Siegel Apdo 1764 Cancun QR 77501
>http://www.yucatanweb.com/siegel/jsiegel.htm

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