Last year I wrote about how the media often resorts to cliches and convenient stereotypes rather than doing the hard work to get the true story behind sensational headlines.
I was referring to the much-hyped headlines and reports about an AIDS epidemic in India. It now looks almost certain that the numbers may have been overinflated.
The Times quoted Denis Broun, India country director for UNAids as saying, “For the country as a whole, the risk of an Africa-type epidemic is very remote” while the NY Times mentioned in its report that, …