'Planet Hillary' Magazine Cover Gets Some Buzz, Criticized

[Purveyor]

(CNN) - A New York Times Magazine cover story about Hillary Clinton was getting reaction online even before the piece was released. But it was the cover itself that has created the buzz.

Clinton's face is set on a planet against a celestial background, surrounded by multiple circles of friends above the headline "Planet Hillary."

Amy Chozick, the New York Times political reporter who wrote the piece, discussed the provocative nature of the cover.

"I didn't pick the cover. But when they showed it to me, I definitely thought, 'Oh, this is going to receive a lot of reaction,' " Chozick said Friday on CNN's "New Day."

Most likely mindful of the reaction, the magazine explained in an online piece Thursday evening how the cover came about. "When we created the cover of this Sunday's magazine to accompany Amy Chozick's article – to be published online tomorrow – about Hillary Rodham Clinton's influence on the various people within her political universe, the immediate idea that came to mind was Clinton's face embedded on a planet," Arem Duplessis, the magazine's design director wrote.

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[Whisp]

1. the concept is idiotic and the graphical treatment isn't any better.

[delrem]

2. Seems apt, when politics is reduced to the level of self-gratification. nt

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Is this for real?

Does this planet make me look fat?

[delrem]

4. Makes you look ROUND!

[davidpdx]

5. I saw it

I am indifferent to it.

[question everything]

6. Is this from the same place that depicted Michelle Obama as an angry, revolutionary

black woman?

[lordcommander]

8. Thats the New Yorker, but close...

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Massive ego.

[JoePhilly]

11. Sure ... cause Hillary asked for them to make this cover.

[Whisp]

9. I can't read the small print

but the Carlyle Group and Goldman Sachs should be a galaxy not that far far away from planet Hill.

[hrmjustin]

10. It is a silly cover.