Random: It's not SF, its SRS BSNS.

The Sci-FiSyFy Network's newswire page contains mostly press releases, self-promoting interviews, and the odd review. Which is to say that rarely, rarely do you hear anything less than glowing about any project covered. Today, however, somebody on staff finally hit his/her limit with the anti-genre pretensions of the publicity machines of genre projects. Following an interview with director Park Chan-wook headlined Don't Think of Thirst as a Vampire Movie and one with directors Albert and Allen Hughes titled Don't call Eli a Post-Apocalyptic Thriller, somebody snapped at last and gave us the following gem regarding director Robert Schwentke's view of his latest project: ( God forbid you call Time Traveler's Wife a Sci-Fi Film )

Hee. The rest of the article, which returns to SyFy's usual puffery-reportage, can be read here. But thank goodness for the tiny bit of journalistic integrity seeping through (ironically enough, after the SciFi => SyFy change, over which we pass in silence). David Langford's been calling people on this ridiculous stuff in Ansible for years -- time enough to dump the genre chauvinism that Kingsley Amis (or perhaps Robert Conquest; Brian Aldiss isn't quite sure which to credit) trenchantly spoofed in this immortal couplet:

"SF's no good!" they bellow till we're deaf.
"But this looks good." -- "Well, then, it's not SF."

Bah, humbug. SF FTW!