BRAVO ABC for Special

ABC offered a powerful piece of journalism last night--"Out of Control: AIDS in America". With incredible restraint by ABC, the common people were allowed to speak their minds. The old rhetoric and headline-grabbing people and events were exposed with a subtlety that was disarming. The late Peter Jennings threw in a zinger while talking with men with AIDS that exposed their self-centered sexual behavior. Terry Moran sealed his position as the rising star of TV journalism.

This piece should be required viewing in every school in America. If this isn't the hot topic "at the water cooler" this morning, there is something wrong with us. There should be a whole bunch of people feeling alot of guilt this morning over what they have said, how they have acted, how they have misled. Thankfully, not a single abstinence advocate will be among them.