SalvoMont Wrote:

> Current Archaeoogy- a British Archy Magazine will
> carry a feature on this and other aspects in
> Sept/October.


[brian-mountainman.blogspot.com]
"The authors examine in some detail the complex interactions between senior academics and researchers and the media, on which they are increasingly dependent for the "marketing" of their ideas and the promotion of their careers. For many years I have argued that the relationship is unhealthy and indeed dangerous, since university press offices always try to "sex up" press releases about new research, and academics themselves are tempted to place greater stress on column inches than on academic rigour and scientific integrity."

[www.archaeology.org]
"You can't do science by press release," says Collins"

[www.archaeology.co.uk]
PRESS RELEASE...PRESS RELEASE...I'm sure they will tell me all about for £49.95.
Just the same, I think I'll stick to my local graduate-research library and the primary literature for free rather than read a science writer's glossy reinterpretation of how the ancient world never was in order to sell copy for a profit. I think they should rename press-release archaeology to something more truthful, like 'stock-market archaeology'. Just MOO of course.
However, I also find it a little ironic that John bails out on doing original research sets up a blog and also starts writing science fiction books which is sorta doing the same thing as the press is doing. Collins has done his share of press releases also, but at least he is still involved with gathering evidence in the field.