Whitewash is too nice a word. The New York Times has literally erased the entire history of Reagan's inaction and animus on the AIDS issue. Here are the words of a close friend of mine who alerted me to the contents of the NYT's MASSIVE, nearly 11,000-word review of Reagan's political legacy on the front page of Sunday's paper (we're talking a 4-page spread):
The New York Times' front page mega-review of Reagan's presidency contains not a single word about AIDS. It mentions timber deregulations, for God's sake, but not AIDS. Got to Nytimes.com, click through the 16 online pages of text, and watch the memories of all our dead friends disappear. This is an outrage. Unless we each do something right away, the Times will have succeeded in writing AIDS out of the history of the Reagan years.
