Word: newsweeklies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AIDS Education and Outreach, bot of Which hold workshop and events designed to foster awareness about birth control and sexually transmitted diseases. There are free condoms handed out during Condom Week and AIDS awareness Week. The media continually blitzes us with information, ranging from glossy covers on Time and Newsweek to dire warnings on talk shows...
...issue of Newsweek contained a particularly transparent example of this sort of journalism, if it can be called that. In the ominously titled "Homophobia: What Does It Mean to Be Anti-Gay?" writer John Leland paints a picture of the mid-sized town of Lewiston, Maine that positively oozes with condescension and posturing...
Rather than laying facts and people before us, the Newsweek article gives us the reporter as facile moral guide--warm, fuzzy, reassuring, and insidious. Such a role, better reserved for the opinion page, is undesirable at any time. It is especially dangerous on an issue as hotly debated as gay rights, where the public itself is deeply divided...
...lies in its ability to determine the terms of discourse on issues. So even the media's choice of language can be influential--and revealing. Consider media coverage of abortion issues. Casually accusing those who think abortion should be illegal of holding back history hardly seems palatable, even for Newsweek...
...didn't pick it up," said Blendon. "After I saw Will's [Newsweek article], I said, 'He's completely right...