"Weekly World News" to stop publication

The last issue of the black-and-white supermarket tabloid "The Weekly World News" will be published Aug 27. The news tabloid started because the publishers were switching to color and still wanted to use their black-and-white presses is ending.

Where will we find out the news that "12 U.S. Senators are space aliens?" (None named - I suggested they included Jesse Helms and Phil Gramm, myself. I still think that Jon Cornyn was an alien replacement for Gramm.) I do suspect that there are fewer than 12 aliens in the Senate now, though. Too many of the current Senators are much to wacky for space aliens to associate with.

Parker Carlson at the Washington Post has a good story on a unique, entertaining and ubiquitous (not to mention very, very strange) American institution. I really love this line from the story:

Eddie Clontz was the mad genius behind WWN. A 10th-grade dropout from North Carolina and former copy editor at small newspapers, he imbued the WWN newsroom with his unique philosophy of journalism: Don't fact-check your way out of a good story.

It's a great philosophy as long as the readers know what you are doing.