"AIDS Story Is Fiction But It's Full of Facts"

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"AIDS Story Is Fiction But It's Full of Facts"

New York Times (12/18/90), P. C22
O'Connor, John J.

Abstract: Prime-time television may finally be coming out of the closet with tonight's installment of "Life Stories," NBC's compelling drama, writes John O'Connor in the New York Times. Network television has been unforgivably silent about the AIDS epidemic unless the subject is children or hemophiliacs, neglecting IV drug users and gays, HIV's primary targets. The episode, "Steve Burdick," is fictional but poignant and true-to-life. "There is not easy comfort here. There is, however, a good deal of information about just what AIDS is and how it might be dealt with. That is the kind of service prime-time television should have been delivering years ago," O'Connor writes.

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