AIDS Scare.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Published | 2000-11-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Brian Doherty |
As an attention-grabbing headline, "AIDS Activists Call for Cutting Federal Spending on AIDS" is right up there with "Man Bites Dog." Still, some Washington, D.C.-area newspapers saw so little newsworthiness in the story that they wouldn't even run an ad that four ACT-UP chapters put together to announce their surprising position. The ad argued that government AIDS expenditures have so far been largely misdirected and scandal-ridden.
Roll Call, a newspaper that covers Capitol Hill, ran the AIDS advocacy groups' advertisement on June 22. But The Hill, another paper focused on...
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