Prisoners_With_AIDS

Prisoners With AIDS Prisoners With AIDS Almost everyone watches or reads the news. Although people think that it is great to be watching the news and know what is going on around them, the news conveys other messages as well. The news can indirectly tell you how to feel. In Larry Gross’s article on “AIDS and the Media” he says that, “the stage was set for the arrival of a much more potent and deadly threat, AIDS.” He talks about how this deadly disease could be linked with sexually permissive groups that the media had already defined as “out of the mainstream.” At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, people were referring to it as the ‘gay plague’. At first the media was just as shocked by this outbreak as everyone else; but it was not long before they were “naturalizing” the meaning. It was not so much the AIDS itself that people were concerning themselves with, but the group that was becoming infected with this disease. Gross also says that “the importance of an event may be determined less by what happened them to whom it happened.” The media started to take on the people, aids, article, jail, alabama, out, media, feel, because, think, society, prisoners, even, disease, being, about, makes, victims, state, should, look, far, done, sorry, social, says, problem, place, one, news, much, men, mainstream, just, infected