As a follow-up to my previous post mentioning the Weekly World News, here is an update on the WWN. It seems as if the Weekly World News will have to be signing off after its colored (black-and-white actually, but you know what I mean), 28-year history. To quote one headline writer, "Weekly World News Faces Own Apocalypse!"
While most of the world thinks that is about the correct level of sentiment for the occasion, I will truly miss the WWN. I will probably have to ceremonially buy the last issue at the end of August to commemorate such a fine establishment of the printed press. It has entertained me for years in supermarket checkout isles, always providing a bright and cheery face compared to the trashy celebrity tabloids. It was a tabloid with heart, and I will miss its weekly updates on such riveting stories such as the antics of live, dead, or undead Elvis, or new sitings of religious figures in everyday objects, or the progress of Batboy in his hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
R.I.P. WWN
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