I hope some of you had a chance to watch Frontline's

joemurphy

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Tue May-30-06 09:51 PM
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I hope some of you had a chance to watch Frontline's

AIDS retrospective. It is television at its best.

It's sad that the networks with all the money can't come up with something half as good as this.

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NMDemDist2

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Tue May-30-06 09:52 PM
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1. I TIVO'd it and will watch it later, glad to hear it was well done n/t

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Olney Blue

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Tue May-30-06 09:54 PM
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2. It was wonderful. Why can't media always be this good?

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swimmernsecretsea

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Tue May-30-06 10:53 PM
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3. Was it on PBS?

Hopefully it'll repeat. PBS is good about that. No TIVO in my house, alas. I'm sorry I've missed it. Frontline is one of the best shows on television, and excellent reporting.

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swimmernsecretsea

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Tue May-30-06 11:16 PM
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7. Correction. It's on now.

Just called a friend to watch it too. Thanks for alerting us.

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Hamlette

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Tue May-30-06 11:05 PM
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4. excellent...tonight was the first part, it must continue next week

do not miss it. I lived through all that, had good friends in San Francisco, we were so pissed at Reagan.

If you're interested, read And The Band Played On, by Randy Shilts about Aids (and conduct Unbecoming about gays in the military...if you think you're mad now?)

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GrumpyGreg

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Tue May-30-06 11:14 PM
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5. That was a good movie too.

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Armstead

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Tue May-30-06 11:16 PM
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6. Judge Roberts told Reagan to not deny AIDS could be spread by....

....casual contact.

One damning detail from the documentarty that's relevant today.

To help calm public fears, Reagan was told by his science advisors to say publicly that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact.

Reagan was going to, but at the last minuite Chief Justice John Roberts (then a legal aide) advised him to waffle, and to not deny that AIDS could be spread by csual contact.

The Federal Health oficials were appalled, and rushed to hold news conferences to correct the record.

And thius is the man who Bush appointed as Supreme Copurt Justice, and which Congress approved.

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