All the News That’s Fit to Post
Yet again, the Weekly World News is leading the way in American journalism. Supermarket tab to go all web by September:
The publisher of Weekly World News says the tabloid that revels in make-believe news will disappear from supermarkets at the end of August. The tabloid’s website will stay in business.
That leaves us with few sources of patently false, and uproariously funny, fake news. Where else would you find a story that introduces readers to “Bat Boy” or “The Most Irresistible Woman On Earth — to Mosquitoes!”
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“In its 28 years of publication, the Weekly World News has gotten many scoops, leaving the rest of the mainstream media so far back in the dust that they didn’t even try to catch up,” Larry Williams (Hartford Courant) writes. “Who can forget the revelation that the CIA was keeping Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden prisoners in the same cell, and that they’d fallen in love? You didn’t see that anywhere else. Not to mention: ‘Hell is on the planet Venus, says Bible expert!’ That seems like something everyone would want to know.”
Indeed. In the checkout aisle … provided you aren’t already too busy checking your own groceries these days … you’ll be left with nothing to peruse but that non-serious drivel about celebs … they call that tabloid journalism … and sacchrine Reader’s Digest-style heartstrings tuggers. No more Bat Boy, hairy men from China, updates on Elvis’ whereabouts, alien presidential picks or important scientific news such as “Earth’s Water Supply Came from Dinosaur Wee-Wee.”
Well, you can still find it here. And of course under “Vital Functions” in this site’s righthand column. WWN is leading today with “Most Irresistible Woman on Earth — To Mosquitoes,” which is of course an important story but don’t miss their political coverage: “Mother Nature Endorses Gore for President.”
I wouldn’t be swayed. You know as well as I do the Alien makes the pick.
Topics: media
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:55 pm on Tuesday, July 31, 2007
4 Responses to “All the News That’s Fit to Post”
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July 31st, 2007 at 2:44 pm
It is sometimes difficult to tell the difference between the WWN news items and those from the MSM, except the WWN is more entertaining, and truthier.
July 31st, 2007 at 3:15 pm
God, now I have to look at the cover of People. It’s almost enough to make me move to a farm and gain complete self-sufficiency from our industrialized and highly efficient food industry.
Except that growing ice cream is a real challenge for me. So I’ll just avert my eyes and grit my teeth.
July 31st, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Fine. If that’s the way they want it. But they’ll be sorry when people start having seizures in the checkout line when they spot the nineteen hundredth story about Paris Hilton’s allergies and Brangelina’s baby collection.
August 1st, 2007 at 9:47 pm
“Earth’s Water Supply Came from Dinosaur Wee-Wee.”
Maybe that’s an “inconvenient truth” Al Gore left out in his book?