Tuesday, July 24, 2007

The World's only reliable newspaper

The venerable Weekly World News is stopping the presses for good. Parent company American Media is silencing one of the last vestiges of the hard-hitting investigative journalism.

Fortunately we still have Wikipedia to keep us informed, but I'll miss the old black-and-white tabloid. I don't know how I would have kept myself informed through my pre-World Wide Web adolescence without it. It was regular fodder for my 9th grade Current Events class reports. It's one of the only things I remember from that class--that and the teacher telling us that the Berlin Wall would not come down in our lifetimes.

2 comments:

iSirkus said...

Does this mean that Bat Boy will have to get a real job?

X said...

I believe he's already looking.