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May 30, 2006

The Age Of AIDS

by AltHippo @ 10:37 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

I saw the first half of the Frontline piece “The Age of AIDS” tonight, and thought it was very well done.

I tend to be a critic of PBS, not, obviously for their best moments, and this was one of those, but for their gradual decent into Fox News territory. Literally, you now get the same folks on PBS that you see on Fox, including the staff of NRO, and unapologetic neocons like Charles Krauthammer.

But, again, this first half of “The Age of AIDS” was very well done, documenting the clash between politics and science that, in the case of the AIDS virus, has literally killed millions. (I’m trying to find an authoritative source, a CNN article uses this statistic: “Nearly 19 million have died from AIDS, 3.8 million of them children under the age of 15.”)

The Orlando Sentinel’s review is worth reading. The usual false balance bit is kept to a minimum. ( “In the United States, officials at the Centers for Disease Control complained that budget cuts limited their work. Margaret Heckler, Ronald Reagan’s secretary of health and human services, disagrees. “This was not a problem that money could solve,” she says. “It was a problem for scientists to solve.”)

The second half of “The Age Of AIDS” will be shown tomorrow night on PBS.

Update: the companion website to the Frontline episodes is a class act. Again, one of the best examples of multimedia truth telling.

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2 Responses to “The Age Of AIDS”

  1. eRobin Says:
    May 31st, 2006 at 9:36 am

    “This was not a problem that money could solve,” she says. “It was a problem for scientists to solve.”)

    Better though than now when we would hear that it’s a problem for God to solve.

  2. eRobin Says:
    June 1st, 2006 at 11:03 am

    Frontline’s companion websites are better than the shows and the shows are pretty good.

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