[lbo-talk] Disaster Strikes: Weekly World News To Close

[Wendy Lyon]

On 8/27/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> • Weekly World News tabloid shuts down after 28 years
>
> This is a catastrophe, worse than Elvis' being
> abducted by aliens. What will I do for news? What will
> generations of supermarket shoppers yet unborn do
> without the WWN to enlighten them? Now we are left
> with just celebrity shlock. Black armbands and veils, everybody.

And let's not forget Ed Anger, whose columns were so far right they
just had to have been written by someone on the left.  Though I'm not
sure people reading them always got the joke.