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When the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California in San Francisco later analyzed the differences between the municipal responses to AIDS in New York City and San Francisco, it concluded that the disparate quality rested in part on the vast difference in news coverage by the two cities’ major newspapers. Between June 1982 and June 1985, the San Francisco Chronicle printed 442 staff-written AIDS stories, of which 67 made the front page. In the same period, The New York Times ran 226 stories, only 7 of which were on page one. From mid-1983 on, the coverage of the ...more
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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