klortho (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} klortho) wrote,@ 2007-08-08 01:11:00 |
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Boy trapped in refridgerator eats own foot!
My sister sent me the sad, sad news that the Weekly World News is folding. I used to subscribe to this back in the early nineties, and it was always great for a laugh. Not just a mild chuckle, mind you, but an obnoxious pig-biting laugh that wakes the neighbors.
This Washington Post story will give you a feel for what the Weekly World News was, and what made it special. Their philosophy of journalism was, "don't fact-check your way out of a good story".
I also remember picking up a copy not too long ago, maybe two or three years, and thinking that it just wasn't funny anymore, and wondering if the newspaper had changed, or if my sense of humor had. I didn't know at the time that it had changed ownership in 1999, and, according to the Post article, that led to its decline.
My sister sent me the sad, sad news that the Weekly World News is folding. I used to subscribe to this back in the early nineties, and it was always great for a laugh. Not just a mild chuckle, mind you, but an obnoxious pig-biting laugh that wakes the neighbors.
This Washington Post story will give you a feel for what the Weekly World News was, and what made it special. Their philosophy of journalism was, "don't fact-check your way out of a good story".
I also remember picking up a copy not too long ago, maybe two or three years, and thinking that it just wasn't funny anymore, and wondering if the newspaper had changed, or if my sense of humor had. I didn't know at the time that it had changed ownership in 1999, and, according to the Post article, that led to its decline.
