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AIDS patients who tuned in last Thursday to Cable News Network and several other TV news shows had reason to feel excited. Reporting live from Atlanta Hospital, a CNN correspondent described an operation in progress aimed at ridding a 37-year-old man, identified only as "Tony," of AIDS by heating his blood to 108 degrees F. Heightening the drama was the presence on camera of Carl Crawford, 33, an AIDS patient who had received the same treatment four months ago and whose symptoms had apparently disappeared...
...professionals or published in any medical journal. Crawford and Tony were the only patients who had ever undergone the blood-heating treatment. That is not a large enough group to draw any conclusions, and it is too soon to tell whether Tony will get better or worse. Finally, as CNN duly reported, Atlanta Hospital is on the verge of being shut down by the state of Georgia unless the facility can refute charges (unrelated to the Logan-Alonso experiment) that patients there have received poor care...
...miracle cure? Or is it a mirage that cruelly raises the hopes of AIDS sufferers -- the medical equivalent of cold fusion? No one, and certainly not journalists, can know the answers. The case illustrates the press's growing lack of restraint in medical coverage, especially where AIDS is concerned. CNN called the treatment "experimental and controversial," but by leading off newscasts with the story and cutting to the hospital for frequent live reports, the network was in effect trumpeting the blood-heating procedure as a major development. That outraged many medical experts. "This is turning a life-and-death issue...
That approach is particularly surprising since Soviet-bashing no longer commands wide support among voters. Only a fourth of those who responded in an April poll for TIME and CNN by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman said the U.S. "should pressure the Soviet Union to give Lithuania its independence." Almost two-thirds judged the issue to be "none of our business...
...Moral Majority leaders in protesting sex and violence on TV. Then something -- God knows what -- happened. Last year Turner's superstation WTBS banned all religious programming, including Falwell's Old-Time Gospel Hour. Now antiabortion activists, whom the cable mogul has publicly called "bozos," are furious because Turner's CNN broadcast an early National Park Service estimate of 60,000 supporters at the recent Washington rally, rather than the 500,000 claimed by pro-lifers. And, accepting an award as Humanist of the Year at a convention in Orlando, Turner, who has called Christianity a "religion for losers," had some...