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The world of journalism was rocked when America Media, Inc. announced that it was suspending publication of the Weekly World News. Citing the general decline of print newspapers, AMI will run two more original issues and then a few more reprints before it shuts down in late August.

I’m sad. You gotta love any paper claiming to be “America’s Only Reliable Newspaper” and gives you a classic “I’m having bigfoot’s baby” story. Here are some good ones, let’s have a last laugh for old time’s sake:

No – that isn’t Chelsea she’s holding!!

I saw this guy in the local Bass Pro Shop.

This one made me want to work in political sociology.

Strangely, Bat Boy and I share the same taste in cars.

A few other links:

• Pandemonium, a role playing game inspired by the WWN.
• The WWN anthology – Bat Boy Lives!: The Weekly World News Guide to Politics, Culture, Celebrities, Alien Abductions, an dthe Mutant Freaks that Shape Our World. Worth every penny. Trust me.
• Bat Boy: The Musical
• A clip from the short lived WWN television show.
• Interview with WWN VP David Perel. Choice quote: “I think there’s something in the intro to the book that you might have read; I really believe it’s true. A guy calls up The New York Times and says “My toaster’s talking to me,” The New York Times hangs up on him. And then he calls us up and says, “My toaster’s talking.” We say, “OK. Put the toaster on. We want to talk to him.” So it’s all in the approach. We are absolutely open-minded and willing to look beyond the boundaries of what has become known as commonly accepted science or reality.”
• The Onion reacts to this breaking news.

There will never be another quite like you… may you rest in peace.