others for serving as the handmaiden of both the medical profession and the federal government in selling the pro- gram to the public.
To test such allegations, Rubin and Hendy, both of the New York University journalism faculty, analyzed stories in 19 daily newspapers, evening news broadcasts of the three television networks, and the out- put of United Press International for the week of October 11-17, 1976- the week when the inoculation program began in earnest and when three elderly persons...