 |
 |
Here is part of it, Mary: WIRE: 12/09/2001 4:04 pm ET Slate editor Michael Kinsley discloses that he has Parkinson's disease The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) Journalist Michael Kinsley says he has had Parkinson's disease for eight years but didn't go public with the revelation because he was in denial. "Denial means letting the disease affect your life as little as possible," Kinsley, the editor of the online magazine Slate, writes in Time magazine's Dec. 10 edition. "In fact, it means pretending as best you can that you don't even have it." Kinsley, 50, says that only a few people knew his secret "but in the past couple of years, it seems to me, the symptoms have become more evident." Kinsley says he was offered the editorship of The New Yorker three years ago but the offer was withdrawn after he told "the owner" that he had Parkinson's. "I chose to believe him that the Parkinson's didn't matter," Kinsley says. "To withdraw the offer for that reason would be, among other things, probably illegal. But I also doubt that he would have made the offer in the first place had he known all along." Conde Nast spokeswoman Maurie Perl said the publisher had no comment. Kinsley, 50, is a former editor of The New Republic and has co-anchored CNN's "Crossfire." Parkinson's, which results from nerve-cell damage in the brain, causes muscle tremors and stiffness and affects more than 1 million Americans. It is incurable but not usually fatal. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 9:09 PM Subject: Journalist reveals his Parkinson's > Hi, Folks ! > A bit o' news! > > On P.14 in The New York Daily News, December 10, 2001, GReg Wilson, > a Daily News staff writer, reports that journalist, Editor Michael Kinsley, > age 50, former host of CNN program "Crossfire" reveals that he has had > Parkinson's disease for eight years. . > Kingsley has written a first-person essay appearing in this week's issue of > TIME magazine. > > I'll try to get the Time essay to our List, somehow. > > Mehmoirs@ aol.com (Mary Manfredi) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn