The show's documentation is damning and voluminous. Likewise, CBS's Bradley may alleviate some future suffering in Africa by widely publicizing, not the well-known fact of AIDS there, but the morally reprehensible lack of response by those who could make a difference. Sixteen hundred people are infected with HIV every day in South Africa. Fourteen hundred die of AIDS in Zimbabwe every week. The countries' leaders ignore the plagues.
Pharmaceutical companies refuse to offer life- saving drugs at affordable prices.
Bradley puts a personal face on the disease. The report is hard-hitting viewing and the strongest sort of global public service. ABC's Jennings, as he does, takes a more folksy path. It's reassuring to know that some people in television are still doing that. WHYY airs a one-hour documentary tonight to mark Tall Ships Delaware, which brings more than 20 elegantly gargantuan schooners to the Wilmington riverfront today through Sunday.