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May. 12th, 2007 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaYou know how it has become a commonplace of smart people that any newspaper article on a subject about which you have actual knowledge will be full of stupid mistakes?
Well, in your face: here's an article on Mid-South Con from the New York Times which pretty much gets it all right. More, it actually presents the entire endeavor as worthwhile, conveying much of the appeal of conventions. It even dips into the splintering of fandom and the death of sf.
(Alas, this article will be online only for another couple of days, I think.)
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nancylebov.)
[Updated: I just realized that the article is written by David Iztkoff, who runs the occasional sf column for the New York Times Book Review. This makes it less surprising, but it shows that if reporters actually know their subject, they can treat it well.]
Well, in your face: here's an article on Mid-South Con from the New York Times which pretty much gets it all right. More, it actually presents the entire endeavor as worthwhile, conveying much of the appeal of conventions. It even dips into the splintering of fandom and the death of sf.
(Alas, this article will be online only for another couple of days, I think.)
(courtesy of
nancylebov.)[Updated: I just realized that the article is written by David Iztkoff, who runs the occasional sf column for the New York Times Book Review. This makes it less surprising, but it shows that if reporters actually know their subject, they can treat it well.]
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Date: 2007-05-12 05:03 pm (UTC)http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink if you want to make a permanent link.
I've noticed that newspaper and NPR reporting on fandom and sf has improved a lot in maybe the past ten years. I was floored when NPR gave Gordon Dickson a very nice eulogy.
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Date: 2007-05-12 09:33 pm (UTC)The real knock-me-on-the-floor moment was an NPR weekend show running a seven-minute article on reactions within the sf reader/critical community to the film adaptation of I, Robot. (I posted about this when it happened. (http://womzilla.livejournal.com/93099.html)) Back in 1992, they managed to do a seven-minute interview with P. D. James about her then-new The Children of Men without using the term "science fiction" even once. So, it's quite a change.