I need my BATBOY! Weekly World News goes the way of the DODO.

[pepperbear]

*snip*

The tabloid's publisher, American Media Inc., issued a brief statement that announced the Aug. 27 issue would be Weekly World News' last. It called the closure necessary "due to the challenges in the retail and wholesale magazine marketplace that have impacted the newsstand."

*snip*

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/26/business/main3099231.shtml

[Matariki]

1. Since the start of the Bush administration - the "real" news has become increasingly surreal

and Weekly World News can no longer keep up.

It's a pity, isn't it?

[atommom]

2. I haven't bought one in many years, but I always enjoyed flipping

through them. I still regret not having bought the redneck vampires edition. :(

[flakey_foont]

3. Redneck Vampire attacks trailer park!

now, that is real reporting!!!! I used that cover as the desktop background on my work computer


no more Weekly World News???? wah! no more Celebrities are actually aliens? no more 200 pound babies? no more exclusive photos from inside Hell? aw, shucks!

[gatorboy]

Boooo! I was hoping to get a Photoshop job with them one day.

I wonder if they'll still be runninbg their website...

[gatorboy]

4. Boooo! I was hoping to get a Photoshop job with them one day.

I wonder if they'll still be runninbg their website...

[laststeamtrain]

5. "I was Bigfoot's Love Slave"

That was always my favorite headline.

I remember one where heaven had been discovered by a 'Russian scientist'. The source was some Russian journal I could never find any other reference to.

They were always the best of the checkout tabloids.

Did they have the columnist Ed Anger?

I remember he was very angry he couldn't get any Swiss Miss cocoa when he traveled to Switzerland.

I'm really sorry to see them go.

[npincus]

6. I rember fictional cover: "George W. B*sh Wins Presidency"

[ingac70]

7. My fave story...

Was the one right after the 2004 election, about how the GOP was going to change the national anthem to "Dueling Banjos".

:rofl:

[shenmue]

8. Nooooooooooo!

What am I going to read at the checkout?

No more alien babies or kooky diets?

How are we going to know when the world is coming to an end?

:shrug:

:cry:

[Karmageddon]

9. That's OK, now that Murdoch owns the WSJ, it will soon replace the WWNews in checkout lanes.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. Batboy Obama '08! It shall be missed.

I always liked WWN. At least it knew it was full of crap

[Maru Kitteh]

11. Dick Cheney is a Robot!

I sorely wish I would have picked that issue up.

[MetaTrope]

12. Has the Bush disaster taught critical thinking to Red America?

Naw, probably not.

[chaplainM]

13. World's Fattest Cat! n/t

[xchrom]

14. few here on DU know that i was Batboy's secret alien gay lover.

he always denied it -- but it's true.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. so are you behind the fall of this pillar of journalism?

You just couldn't leave Batboy alone, could you?

[xchrom]

16. i tried -- i did -- i really tried.

but that face -- and those ears -- sigh

i just couldn't help myself.

[semillama]

17. One of my favorite things to do was go through the WWN

and try and find the article that was actually true. There was always at least one.

How do I know this?

Because my friends were in an issue back in 1996. Here's the text:

"Naked accordion player arrested in laundromat!

Hancock, Mich. - Shocked patrons called the police when a naked man began playing the accordion in a laundromat while four pals danced to the music in their underwear. Cops say the five college students - including two coeds - put on the wacky show at about 3 a.m. , when the laundromat was almost empty. But two women who witnessed the bizarre scene were offended and called the authorities. Officials declined to prosecute the young mischief-makers."

That was the aftermath of a party at my house, which was across the street from the laundromat.

[MichaelHarris]

18. I always felt bad

for that boy who had to eat his own foot while trapped in a refrigerator. At least he had some condiments in there with him.

[LTR]

19. The Lounge people will hate this cover

RIP WWN! The last bastion of true journalism left!

[Toasterlad]

20. If That Kitten is Guilty, She Deserves to Die.