The end Times

Our weekly magazines are so list-crazy: the 50 most influential this, the 10 best that. Well, Reason has turned the tables on Time this week and listed the magazine’s 10 most absurd cover articles. Says Reason: From William Randolph Hearst’s ginned up hysterical stories about marijuana to the “10-cent plague” comic book scare of the […]

Our weekly magazines are so list-crazy: the 50 most influential this, the 10 best that. Well, Reason has turned the tables on Time this week and listed the magazine’s 10 most absurd cover articles.

Says Reason: From William Randolph Hearst’s ginned up hysterical stories about marijuana to the “10-cent plague” comic book scare of the 1950s to The New York Times warning of “cocaine-crazed Negroes” raping white women across the Southern countryside, the media has always whipped up anxiety and increased readership via thinly sourced exposes of the next great threat to the American way of life….

As a service to future historians of the long, slow death of the newsweekly, Reason offers this Top 10 list of the most horrifying, silly, irresponsible, or downright ridiculous Time cover panics from the past 40 years.


Number 10 is this expose on “The Occult Revival: Satan Returns,” from 1972.

See the rest here.

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