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Article: MAGAZINE RAPPED FOR PRINTING EXCERPTS
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 8, 1988
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CopyrightCopyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Newsweek magazine, which several years ago came under
withering attack for publication of "Hitler diaries" that turned
out to be forgeries, yesterday found itself in a storm of
controversy for its cover story on a new book on AIDS by Dr.
William Masters and Virginia E. Johnson.
"Newsweek has a pretty good track record of irresponsibility,"
said Daniel Greenberg, a widely published science writer and editor
of Science and Government Report in Washington D.C. "Putting
something like that on the cover without any accompanying
scientific documentation is irresponsible. The public is having
the hell scared out of it."
"We wouldn't have done it that way, but they're selling
magazines," ...