EBAccording to this article in the New York Times, the Weekly World News has been sold and may be coming back. If you don’t remember it from the supermarket checkout line, the Weekly World News is that wacky tabloid that features the most bizarre news out there, from aliens mating with celebrities to bat boys in high-speed car chases. The Times describes it thusly:
The Weekly World News was started in 1979 by Generoso P. Pope Jr., then the publisher of The National Enquirer. It distinguished itself from its sister tabloid with its deadpan articles on the bizarre. While The Enquirer might print rumors of a politician’s affair, Weekly World News would print rumors of a politician’s affair with an alien.
It specialized in subjects scientific, religious and political. Some of the more memorable covers have included “Bigfoot Kept Lumberjack as Love Slave,” “Hillary Clinton Adopts Alien Baby,” “Dick Cheney Is a Robot,” and several stories about a love affair between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, including their adoption of a shaved ape child.
If you can’t wait for the print edition to come back, you can tide yourself over with the new online edition.
