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ASME and Amazon.com Announce the Finalists of the 2010 Best Magazine Cover Contest
Ran into this yesterday, and of course my eye went immediately to NOPE
and HATE. First time I'd seen that New York Magazine (September
28, 2009) cover. Sleuthing yielded the article,
written by Philip Weiss, and that sent me off on this
tangent. Weiss, it seems, owns the rights to Hate and Crazies
stories (not a bad thing).
In 1997 Weiss, a contributing New York Times editor, was sent to
Arkansas to do a story for the New York Times Magazine. His
mission: find the crazies causing Bill Clinton all this trouble, then
expose and discredit them. That resulted in The Clinton Haters - Clinton Crazy.
An odd thing happened however.
Weiss did find a bunch of them; like Larry Nichols, Hugh Sprunt, and
Pat Matrisciana, "a film maker, who had developed a monstrous
view of Clinton as Satan's nephew." He ate with them; drank with
them; and reported what they said. What he did not do is paint
them as nut jobs who made stuff up. In fact, Weiss later
confessed that the crazies
made a better case than did the Clinton apologists, The New York
Times was not happy, and as far as I know that was the end of his
association with the Gray Lady. I've had a healthy respect for Weiss
ever since, and would read his recent "Crazies" article, except I
hate Obama too much. Love the cover though, and wonder why it's
in the "Most Controversial" category, and not "Best Vampire?"
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