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 Online offers this Top 10 list of the most horrifying, silly, irresponsible, or downright ridiculous Time cover panics from the past 40 years.
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