Wired reported last week that the supermarket tabloid, Weekly World News, is ending its print version and going online-only. But the Washington Post just called the publication "dead" and made no mention of its life on the Web.
Someone's wrong. If it's the Post, I'm concerned about any viewpoint that describes online-only in the following way:
Now, with circulation plunging below 90,000, American Media, which owns WWN, has pulled the plug. The Aug. 27 issue will be the last. After that, the Weekly World News will be as dead as Elvis, maybe deader.
Maybe deader? Does Elvis have a Web site I don't know about?
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Reuters backed up the Wired News report. I posted a bad link to their article last week, but will try again here.
Weekly World News to close (aliens not blamed!)
The web site sure seems active, as it must be to remain the World's Only Reliable Newspaper after ceasing publication.
But I must say, in the field of questionable facts and outright lies, the competition is even more savage and abundant on the internet than it is in the checkout lane.
Posted by Jacob Ogles | August 8, 2007 4:58 PM
Posted on August 8, 2007 16:58