A new history of the New York Times has revived a decades-long debate about why the Times failed to give Aids the blanket coverage it deserved, after doctors discovered an often fatal disease they first believed only attacked gay men.
The Times, by Adam Nagourney, repeats the conventional wisdom: the paper failed for years to give Aids enough attention, because its assigning editors were influenced by the homophobia of its top editor, Abe Rosenthal.
