While the country (and weblogs) stay glued to Rovegate and Robertspath (he looks like he will be confirmed) another intriguing story — and controversy — has been unfolding in New York.
It’s about kids and AIDS drug trials. It pits the New York Times against an investigative reporter who does much of his reporting on the Internet.
Read the Times story here.
Then read the rebuttal story here (WARNING: This contains VERY graphic images).
UPDATE: Dean Esmay has some info about another AIDS-related controversy.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.