The Best of Science Fiction 12

Take a word. Take two: The Media. Hollywood and The Networks and MadAve, Time-Life, PR, gold platters (and how presidents get elected). The British sometimes call it Admass. Above and below are two kinds of Media men. Tuli Kupferberg is a Fug. Harvey Jacobs is Public Relations Manager for ABC-TV's (satellite) Worldvision network — an Opinion Maker in the Executive Suite of the most assiduously Massaged Medium of them ally a veritable barterer of the Mechanical Bride, a subterranean stimulator, subliminally blowing other-directed minds all the hell over the Total Surround. The astonishing thing about Harvey Jacobs is that he has not allowed his medium to become his message. He does not even wear shades: not even to watch TV. Or movies.