Video/ 365gay News: Randall Pinkston reports on AIDS crisis
It is a silent epidemic terrorizing part of south. HIV/AIDS is spreading at alarming rates and it’s hitting two separate communities at surprisingly different rates.
Randall Pinkston has the story.
This is an very important story, and I’m glad it’s being covered.
A couple small complaints, though: It seems like the report spent a lot of valuable image time showing blood being drawn, over and over again. Also, isn’t the reporter’s name spelled Pinkston, not Pinston?
The graphics at 0:30 do not match the narration. The narrator says that African Americans make up 22% of NC’s population and 68% of NC’s reported AIDS cases. But the graphic shows 68% of the NC African American population have AIDS. That’s absurd, and is not what the narrator said. The same mistake is made for Whites, a few seconds later. If you’re going to do a graphic, it might be a good idea to get it right. The correct pie charts would be (1) a pie chart showing the 22-74 ratio of African American to White in NC, and (2) a pie chart showing the 68-22 ration of reported African American to White AIDS cases in NC.