Aids: Journalism In A Plague Year

AIDS: Journalism in a Plague YearViewpointTime was, all we had to worry about was plain old V.D. Then, when V.D. became a "sexually transmitted disease," the media swung their klieg lights into place and we got "scourges" or, even better, "plagues." They move so fast that last year's upscale sex virus, herpes, has now gone the way of E.T. In its place, most of us have been hearing alarming things about AIDS, acquired-immune-deficiency syndrome.Rarely has a disease i...