{"id":11257,"date":"2020-05-27T12:29:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2020-05-27T12:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:29:29","slug":"update-to-our-meeting-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=11257","title":{"rendered":"Update to our meeting agenda!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reminder that we have another virtual meeting on June 6, 13:00h. The meeting will be on our website, www.monsffa.ca<\/a>, and on our facebook goup<\/a>, and<\/strong> facebook page.<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

There will be two major presentations, Sylvain’s third part to the Plagues in SF\/F theme, and Joe Aspler’s presentation on Journalism in SF\/F.<\/p>\n

Journalism in science fiction and fantasy<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

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Why does journalism play a role in so many science fiction stories? Winston Smith of the Ministry of Truth in 1984 rewrote the news on a daily basis. William de Worde founded the Ankh-Morpork Times, the first newspaper on Discworld. The James Bond Villain in Tomorrow Never Dies was dedicated to ruling the world with Fake News. TinTin solved crime the old-fashioned way: with a typewriter and a twin-lens reflex camera. Sarah-Jane Smith, companion to the third and fourth Doctor, acted as snoopy journalist when necessary, and as the traditional 1970s SF Screamer at other times.<\/p>\n

Today’s presentation shows how and why journalism as story-telling – or as fake story telling – is an important part of many cartoons science fiction stories.