In this week's Maclean's, there's an interview/excerpt by Peter C. Newman about the exceptionally unlovely and uncharming Barbara Amiel.
Those who don't follow Canadian or UK media or business might only recognize Amiel as the wife of Conrad Black, who is currently in really deep yogurt regarding his business practices.
Amiel makes Ann Coulter look like a socialist. Nope, she makes Ann Coulter look like a socialist who alternates chronically ingesting Ecstacy and Prozac.
Newman gives us all a lovely view into the wreck that was going to take almost 40 years to come ashore. Yeah, he made a lot of money off of her, although my usual reaction to seeing one of her columns was to roll my eyes and move on--I guess she attracted a lot of readers who wanted to see the latest installment.
But given her antics in the workplace, and outside of it, you'd think that someone would tried to stop the trainwreck to be. From the looks of it, she caused a lot of people a lot of grief over the past thirty years, and you have to wonder how much of that could have been avoided if Newman had been more interested in dealing with the problem than profiting off of it.
Posted by lsefton at November 6, 2004 07:42 PM