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From: blueskye@sun.uucp (Tim Ryan)
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Subject: Re: Media accounts of AIDS, and a brief digression
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 11:05:41 EDT
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Recent posting from:
> -- Joe Chapman	joe@cca-unix	decvax!cca!emacs!joe
> Recent reading: Harper's for October has a panel discussion on AIDS that
> is one of the most coherent and intelligent presentations on the subject
> I can remember seeing in the media over the past several months.

Thanks for bringing up the _Harper's_ article.  I've read it, and
excerpted it for some of the locals here at Sun.  It really *is* one
of the very best articles on AIDS that I have read.

I would also recommend to all readers of motss and your friends two
other magazines (both October issues): _The Atlantic_, and _The New
Republic_.  The _Atlantic_ article is labelled as "How San Francisco
Coped [sic] with AIDS;" the _New Republic_ article is titled
"AFRAIDS."  Both are very sane, intelligent, informed articles on the
subject.  I can't say strongly enough that every person of whatever
sexual preference who has had more that one sexual partner since 1981
should read these articles (all three).  The _Harper's_ article is
especially good, in that it describes in great detail the history of
the disease, what the "clinical" meaning of the term is, and describes
how the retrovirus LAV/HTLV-II works.  It also discusses some issues
of burning concern to all oppressed people--like mass quarantine and
public policy.  The _ATlantic_ article spends much of its time
discussing how AIDS has affected San Francisco, and how it has shaped
recent public policy in SFO.  But it also discusses how it affects the
lives of the people who it touches.  There have also been recent
editorial articles on AIDS in the British news weekly _The Economist_.
I don't remember the issue dates, but I'm sure that there will be more
in the future.  _The Economist's_ articles give a uniquee will be more
in the future.  _The Economist's_ articles give a unique, European
perspective, that is quite intelligent.  I think they have the benefit
of distance from the tragedy to help them.  In any case, it appears
that the "serious" press has started to get serious now.  It burns me
up,though, that it took school children and Rock Hudson to get their
attention.

- tim ryan {...,ucbvax,decwrl,&c}!sun!blueskye


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