The following is on Crichton's website. I read this a while ago and was reminded of it with the current "popularity" of the Rather memos. There are two excerpts (I dont' believe there is an policy on speeches, but the site is free and doesn't appear to involve any pop-ups, etc.) ...But today I want to discuss 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...