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The Cause of the Plague
"Health Department: HIV/AIDS cases up in 2004 in Minnesota," Associated Press, 15 April 2005, http://www.in-forum.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D89G036O0.
The Associated Press - Friday, April 15, 2005
As a people-killer spreads in Minnesota
More than 300 people in Minnesota were diagnosed with HIV last year, an 11 percent increase over 2003, the state Health Department reported Friday.
The AP waits until paragraph seven to state the main vector
The department continued to find disproportionally high numbers of cases among gay and bisexual men. During the past three years, the group has accounted for 50 percent of all diagnoses although they account for only 5 percent of the population.
That rate is roughly in keeping with national trends.
What aggrevates me is that the lower something appears in a news story, the more likely it is to be cut. The AP wrote the article so the homosexualism angle would be the one most likely to be left out.
If that's not intellectual dishonesty, it's close.
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