No. NO!

Nishlord · Post by **Nishlord** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:23 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Mourning The Weekly World News

Some people say that they go to the supermarket for food. Those people are called "liars."

Most people, if you dig down deep, go to the supermarket for tabloids, and not just the glossy celebrity magazines that have multiplied like gremlins in the last ten years. I mean real, honest-to-badness tabloids, the newspapers for which truth and responsibility and even reality are other people's hang-ups.

And now, the world is poorer, thanks to the news this week that American Media will cease publication of one of the great pieces of trash this country has ever produced: the Weekly World News. (Read more about it here and here.)

Published since 1979, the WWN has staunchly refused, for the most part, to tell us about Lindsay or Paris or Britney, instead opting for stories about aliens, Satan, giant pigs rampaging through the Georgia woods, Nostradamus-like prophets, time travel, and, of course, Bat Boy. In an increasingly frightening world, the Weekly World News provided regular -- you might even say weekly -- respite in the form of pedal-to-the-metal stupidity. It's too bad that WWN didn't break the story of its own demise, because then we would know that it wasn't true.

What will Cuda do now?

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:30 pm

Not so bad, really. We still have the nightly local news.

LTS TRN 2 · Post by **LTS TRN 2** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:01 pm

"The World's Only Reliable Newspaper" was perhaps getting too close to FOX NEWS' plot lines, so it had to go.

Nishlord · Post by **Nishlord** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:29 pm

When I was at university, the WWN was the only paper I'd have in the house. How the fuck am I supposed to check up on Batboy now?

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:37 pm

nish, I believe it will continue on line, so you will be able to keep tab on batboy, elvis sighting, etc.....

Risa · Post by **Risa** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:10 am

smackaholic wrote:nish, I believe it will continue on line, so you will be able to keep tab on batboy, elvis sighting, etc.....

That's what they said about Omni :( Fuck Bob Guccione and people who'll pay $6 for airbrushed titties but not for world class science fiction and speculation.

As for Weekly World News, I remember buying that. They had nice giant crosswords, the classifieds were a hoot (and sometimes bewildering) to read, and the stories were wacked out. Dear Dottie was sassier than Abby and Ann. I think the last time I bought one was around Michael Landon's death, when folks were trying to make him the new Elvis, except with saintly powers.... like he really was traveling the country in ghost form healing the sick and bringing the Lord's comfort to the destitute and troubled of faith.

Wouldn't that have been nice. I never got the juxtaposition of slot-machine christianity and fortune teller voodoo. And then they stopped trying to make the photos look legit. If they weren't going to print the truth, why bother buying the shit? So I stopped.