Re: 300 Pounds of Joy

On Jul 8, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Jim Straub wrote:

I had a negative view of kolata after that.

Judy Bari was her sister, by the way, though probably everyone knows
that.

Kolata has plenty of critics. ACT-UP plastered NYC with stickers
proclaiming her the worst AIDS reporter in the U.S. in the early
1990s. Mark Dowie and others have found her to take a consistently
pro-corporate line. E.g.:

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Gina-Kolata-Dowie6jul98.htm http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gina_Kolata

Doug

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