Sunday, July 22, 2007

Weekly World News Shutting Down


from SFSCope:

Weekly World News Shutting Down

By Ian Randal Strock

While it isn't strictly a genre publication, and it does bill itself as "The World's Only Reliable Newspaper," the editor has decided that this announcement does fall within SFScope's purview:

American Media has decided to suspend publication of Weekly World News, both the print publication and the web site. No reason was given at press time, although reliable sources do tell us that management turned down at least one offer to buy the publication.

The weekly supermarket tabloid—known as the home of "Bat Boy" and other less-than-probable stories—has long had staffing connections with the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields.

[Edited on 22 July to note that this article has more color on the news.]



Well now where are we going to get our ideas?

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2 Comments:

Blogger MarkLWilliams said...

Well shoot. And they were the inspiration for the "National Weekly Truth," read as info-within-story in the "Danger Boy" books...

July 22, 2007 11:47 PM  
Blogger Derek Johnson said...

*sniffle* Grocery shopping won't be the same without standing in the checkout aisle and reading about some doctor aborting Bigfoot's quints...

Derek

July 25, 2007 10:29 AM  

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