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Weekly World News to close (aliens not blamed!)
Posted: Jul 25 2007, 03:56 PM
Oh no! 
Another sign that newspapers are dying...
"Publisher American Media Inc. said on Tuesday it will stop printing the Weekly World News, which for 28 years gleefully chronicled the exploits of alien babies, animal-human hybrids and dead celebrities."
Though I was not an avid reader, I could always rely on the WWW for a good laugh when I was standing in line at the grocery store. The claims were just so outrageous that they were laugh-out-loud funny.
How could you not be entertained by the stories about Bat Boy?
"Bat Boy, the half-bat, half-human child found in a cave, was a regular feature. After the September 11 attacks, the tabloid reported he had been enlisted in the hunt for Osama bin Laden because of his special cave-dwelling skills."
So maybe Bat Boy wasn't that good because they haven't found Osama yet.
I only bought two issues of the WWW several years ago. I remember that I felt gypped because they had actually recycled an advice column (they printed the exact same one a few weeks apart). I didn't read the WWW often enough to see if they did that all the time, but I suspect that they do. The print version will cease but the online version will live on. I suspect they will be recycling a lot more stories as well.
This post has been edited by mobyfan on Jul 25 2007, 03:57 PM
Another sign that newspapers are dying..."Publisher American Media Inc. said on Tuesday it will stop printing the Weekly World News, which for 28 years gleefully chronicled the exploits of alien babies, animal-human hybrids and dead celebrities."
Though I was not an avid reader, I could always rely on the WWW for a good laugh when I was standing in line at the grocery store. The claims were just so outrageous that they were laugh-out-loud funny.
How could you not be entertained by the stories about Bat Boy?
"Bat Boy, the half-bat, half-human child found in a cave, was a regular feature. After the September 11 attacks, the tabloid reported he had been enlisted in the hunt for Osama bin Laden because of his special cave-dwelling skills."
So maybe Bat Boy wasn't that good because they haven't found Osama yet.
I only bought two issues of the WWW several years ago. I remember that I felt gypped because they had actually recycled an advice column (they printed the exact same one a few weeks apart). I didn't read the WWW often enough to see if they did that all the time, but I suspect that they do. The print version will cease but the online version will live on. I suspect they will be recycling a lot more stories as well.
This post has been edited by mobyfan on Jul 25 2007, 03:57 PM
Posted: Jul 25 2007, 04:14 PM
| QUOTE (mobyfan @ Jul 25 2007, 02:56 PM) |
| "Bat Boy, the half-bat, half-human child found in a cave, was a regular feature. After the September 11 attacks, the tabloid reported he had been enlisted in the hunt for Osama bin Laden because of his special cave-dwelling skills." |
At least Bat Boy won't be unemployed after most people at the paper get their pink slips. I remember that my mom used to think that it was a real paper. She bought one at the supermarket and brought it home to show me. Ah, gotta love those cultural gaps.
See, that's why you gotta love the WWW.
