Word: taboo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Interestingly, ASNE's respondents thought their papers were now doing a good job on AIDS coverage. Says Leroy Aarons, an acknowledged gay who is senior vice president for news of the Oakland Tribune and director of ASNE's survey: "AIDS served to lift the curtain on a previously taboo area of our society." It also underlines the problem of intelligently covering other taboos or invisible subjects -- ranging from domestic violence to inner-city addiction -- particularly when they are veiled because journalists and readers would rather not see them...
...trade-union newspaper Trud and as a top official at the state committee for television and radio. Sitting in his walnut-paneled office on the eighth floor of TASS headquarters, located just a few blocks east of the Kremlin, Kravchenko declares that there should no longer be any taboo subjects for TASS reporters. "We are going through our own perestroika here," he says. "I want our journalists to be known by their writing, professionalism and style." But he concedes that change does not come easily, particularly in a country where censorship has long been considered a form of patriotism...
...water, they are profoundly uneasy about actively assisting a suicide. Yet a seemingly / inexorable logic enters the picture: once it is acceptable to stand by and allow a patient to die slowly, why is it not more merciful to end life swiftly by lethal injection? What was once taboo is now openly discussed in academic journals: last March the New England Journal of Medicine published an article by twelve prominent physicians called "The Physician's Responsibility Toward Hopelessly Ill Patients." "It is difficult to answer such questions," the doctors wrote, "but all but two of us believe that...
...historic taboo about mercy killing gradually erodes, the courts and legislatures are struggling to be sure that the vulnerable are protected -- that, in the case of the severely disabled, the right to die not become a duty to die. They fear, for example, that medical care for newborn babies may come to depend on some cost-benefit analysis of their chance of living a "full healthy and active life." In the Baby Doe case in 1982, the Indiana courts allowed a couple to refuse surgery for their baby born with Down's syndrome and an incomplete esophagus; after six days...
Political analyses and musings on the state of the nation are also taboo, he says. "That's Au Bon Pain talk. This is a hot dog shop...