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  Joho the Blog: Weekly World News breaks my heart
In my many years of relying on The Weekly World News to bring me the stories others fear to report — "Boxer knocks opponent into last century," "Couple fall in love when they meet in tornado," "Carpal tuna syndrome" — I was distressed to read a small-print notification on the bottom of page two:
Weekly World News articles are drawn from different sources and most are fictitious.
Weekly World News uses invented names in many of its stories, except in cases where public figures are being satirized.
www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/weekly_world_news_breaks_my_he.html   (288 words)

  
 Weekly World News Reports UFO Carjacking in Buenos Aires
Although Perez told the News that the authorities "are refusing to officially discuss the case … to avoid panic," the supermarket weekly ran a large photograph of the abduction allegedly taken by the policeman and credited "courtesy of Buenos Aires police dept."
The News said the police had not yet managed to identify the victims.
Nathan McCutcheon, identified by the tabloid as a "renowned American UFO expert," warned that the event shows that "for some reason the aliens are now becoming bolder." He warned that similar "UFO carjackings" could spread to the United States by the end of 1999.
www.space.com /sciencefiction/phenomena/tab_carjacking_990928.html   (338 words)

  
 Weekly World News ONLINE
News of the dramatic discovery made headlines worldwide and was featured in the Oct. 12, 1993 issue of Weekly World News.
As reported in the NEWS, officials recently made an effort to have the girl moved to a bigger lab where more extensive tests could be conducted on her incredible brain.
No word from the aliens about the stranded girl came until January 1, 2000, when a radio message was reportedly received from deep space, stating, "Give us the child or else." But researchers claim that beyond the star child's scientific importance, there is a humanitarian reason for keeping her on Earth.
astro.wsu.edu /worthey/astro/html/im-ufo/im-aliens/aliens1.html   (573 words)

  
 Mental Discharge News - Weekly World News Reporter Resigns
New York (MD) — Another rising star of the journalistic community fell unexpectedly today as a veteran Weekly World News reporter admitted to plagiarism and fabricating stories.
Weekly World News is second in a wave of media shake-ups.
Industry analysts believe that Weekly World News will recover from the scandal, but everyone agrees that Parker Elsworth’s career in journalism has ended.
www.mentaldischarge.com /?section=news&id=6   (604 words)

  
 Weekly World News
Based in New Castle, DE, and reaching into Pennsylvania's Delaware and Chester counties, the year-old BV Weekly was acquired by Gannett from Community Publishing Co. at the end of August, according to Gannett public affairs specialist Donna Faulk.
Curtis Riddle, publisher of the Gannett-owned Wilmington News Journal and president of Salem County Sampler, the wholly owned Gannett subsidiary that purchased BV Weekly, says the chain actually was more interested in Community Publishing's other publications: Shoppers' Guide, established in 1991, and Auto Plus, 1993.
Richard Rittaco, founder and publisher of BV Weekly and the shoppers, says there is no indication that Gannett plans to tamper with BV Weekly's style or content.
www.citypaper.net /articles/100898/onmedia2.shtml   (550 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Weekly World News: Magazines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The good folks at WWN have even found Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and their good buddy Kim Jong Il, who at present are hard at work getting their hot new boy band ready to tour all the snazziest remote caves and hideouts in Asia.
Weekly World News is one of the funniest publications in today's market.
WWN has an irreverent sense of humor that may not be for everyone.
www.amazon.com /Weekly-World-News/dp/B00005Y2B3   (1588 words)

  
 Michigan Daily Online
It covers the tragedy of neglected children with articles like, "Little girl, 7, sues for her mother's love!" I was nearly brought to tears with this one.
How the WWN was so able to capture the essence of the issue, I'll never know.
It doesn't surprise me that the Weekly World News is published, and it surprises me even less that people actually believe its contents.
www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1996/feb/02-15-96/arts/magazine_column.html   (648 words)

  
 Search: Weekly World News Index
Weekly reports from the international staff of The Times.
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 Search: Weekly World Stories
Weekly World News has frequently promoted the popular rumor that Elvis is alive.
Friday January 5, 2007, Weekly World News KERN COUNTY, Calif.--Cottonball manufacturers just won their first major defense...
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 Tabloid gives donation for insulting burn victim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On Monday, at a Phoenix City Hall news conference, the parent company of the supermarket tabloid that ran the story offered up an apology and a "significant" donation to the charity of Schechterle's choice to avoid a lawsuit.
Stuart Zakim, a spokesman for American Media, Inc., which owns Weekly World News, as well as the National Enquirer, the Globe, and magazines such as Shape and Men's Fitness, acknowledged that the story was a mistake and said that the editors responsible for the story were fired.
The Weekly World News story came out in February, and the outcry from the Mayor's Office and the general public was so great that many retailers refused to carry the issue and American Media reportedly removed it from newsstands nationwide.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/0628tabloid28.html   (438 words)

  
 Weekly World News: Alien Wedding Still Uphill Struggle
A Japanese woman and the space alien she learned to love are nearing their 7-year wedding anniversary, the Weekly World News reported recently.
The aliens, who were hoping to bolster the cause of interplanetary cooperation and peace by arranging the nuptials, have since acted in an unspecified capacity to help the Tanaka family's restaurant business.
In a wedding photograph credited to the "Japan News Press," he is shown as a classic small-nosed Gray in formal kimono.
www.space.com /sciencefiction/phenomena/tabloid_alienwedding_991013.html   (266 words)

  
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Each weekly issue covers the stories that other newspapers are afraid to touch and is chock full of the most bizarre and shocking stories you've ever heard!
Weekly World News Magazine,Takes journals to the edge-and beyond!
The NEWS covers stories that other newspapers are afraid to touch.
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 WORLD Magazine | Weekly News, Christian Views
Think of World Wars I and II and the Cold War.
WORLD's Marvin Olasky says that given the enormous mortality rate in other wars of the past century, it's strange that 3,000 American deaths in Iraq have triggered such a reaction, especially since some of the villains we oppose are Hitleresque.
COVER STORY: The abolitionists’ lament is older than William Wilberforce—whose anti-slavery campaign brought transatlantic slavery to an end 200 years ago this month—but today 27 million people live on in captivity, their lives worth far less than any colonial era slave.
www.worldmag.com   (335 words)

  
 THE NeTw0rK :: Scientology vs. Weekly World News
News reports may contain advertisements according to recent study
© texts or from the Weekly World News (a supermarket tabloid.) Don't worry, it's a difficult test, but it doesn't count toward your GPA.
Unsuspecting human viewers can be ordered to murder each other, destroy military equipment -- or to simply become mindless zombie slaves to the extraterrestrials when they land.
www.thenetw0rk.com /games/scientology.php   (427 words)

  
 Weekly World News | moby.com
it is for this reason that i would like to re-address your attention to the 'weekly world news', which is arguably the finest news paper in america.
i'm actually being quite serious when i say that if i was offered a staff position at the 'weekly world news' i would probably take it.
Moby on the environment for Five News and Sky News
www.moby.com /journal/2003-11-20/weekly_world_news.html   (91 words)

  
 People's Weekly World -
New York’s new Democratic governor Eliot Spitzer has pledged to reform state government, and that’s widely welcomed.
Excerpts from the remarks of Roger Toussaint, president of New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100, on the occasion of its Martin Luther King Jr.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) is 650 miles from the notorious anti-worker Smithfield Foods livestock processing factory in Tar Heel, N.C. On Smithfield’s killing floors and in New Haven’s healing wards, the workers have something in common.
www.pww.org   (618 words)

  
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www.magazinesubscriptionbox.com /Weekly_World_News_Magazine_Subscriptions.shtml   (326 words)

  
 Don't Believe Everything You Read: Inside the Weekly World News | TwitchGuru
The real news next year will be the Santa Rosa platform: Expect notebooks to run faster with flash cache and see new features such as integrated wireless broadband.
Then, one day, while flipping through the TV stations, I happened to catch a chuckling talk-show host holding up a copy of Weekly World News, saying it was probably some guy having fun with his laptop.
Apparently WWN is a well-maintained hoax where its staffers are not allowed to reveal the entire inner workings.
www.twitchguru.com /2006/09/29/inside_the_weekly_world_news/index.html   (1064 words)

  
 Panthic Weekly: World News
It has been reported that A.P.S. Chawla of CKD-England has been in contact with Bhai Chain Singh, a senior Sikh leader of France and desired to open a unit of the CKD in Paris.
Similarly, Shamsher Singh of New York had given his consent to set up a unit of the CKD in USA.
New Delhi (KP) - A huge 'Amrit Sanchar' was held this week on Saturday in the main Lakhi Shah Vanjara Hall in Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib.
www.panthic.org /news/121/ARTICLE/1227/2005-04-10.html   (1034 words)

  
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 Weekly World News - City
About 3,200 troops from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division are set to leave for Baghdad, Iraq, early next month, military officials stated on Sunday.
The group is the first of the 21,500 new soldiers President Bush has ordered for deployment.
These troops are expected to "assist Iraqi Security Forces to clear, control and retain key areas of the capital city in order to reduce violence and to set the conditions for a transition to full Iraqi control of security in the city," the military said in Sunday's statement.
media.www.thedailyaztec.com /media/storage/paper741/news/2007/01/23/City/Weekly.World.News-2667847.shtml   (363 words)

  
 Weekly World News on Jayson Blair - Gawker
Barry Dutter, Executive Editor, Weekly World News: Absolutely, here at WWN, our policy is we verify everything.
And I'm kinda shocked the New York Times allowed quotes to get into print that were made up.
Dutter is the Executive Editor of the Weekly World News.
www.gawker.com /news/media/weekly-world-news-on-jayson-blair-12277.php   (199 words)

  
 Magazing.com: Weekly World News Subscription [Magazine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 The Daily Cartoonist | News and blog about comic strips, editorial cartoons, cartoons
Alien Baby, a continuing serial, is based on the true story of Stacey McCauley and her son Ethan, whose lives are complicated by dealings with Ethan’s deadbeat dad, Moogera, who hails from the distant star Beta Pictoris.
Stacey’s situation was originally brought to light in reports appearing in the Weekly World News.
I’ve had the happy fortune to collaborate with Stephen on a number of projects over the years, and it’s always a good day for me when a new opportunity presents itself.
dailycartoonist.com /index.php/2006/11/10/craig-boldman-to-create-alien-baby-for-weekly-world-news   (287 words)

  
 Weekly World News ONLINE
The news has sent shockwaves through Washington and many political insiders from both parties initially expressed skepticism about Baleri's report.
As Weekly World News and other media reported in April 1991, the alien held a secret summit with the senior Bush at Camp David.
Although the other matters discussed at the meeting remain a closely guarded secret, it is known that the wide-ranging talk covered Bush's plans for improving education as well as possible trade between the alien's home world and our own.
astro.wsu.edu /worthey/astro/html/im-ufo/im-aliens/aliens9.html   (814 words)

  
 Weekly World News Admits to Faking Stories
[Dateline: Somewhere, Kansas] Today, in a shocking turn of events, the famous and news organ The Weekly World News admitted to our fictional correspondent that the magazine is, and always has been a humor magazine.
To the American public, this is yet another incident that undermines their faith in the news media.
News stories presented here represent today's headlines taken to their next worse possible outcome.
www.franksworld.com /news/98_09/newshoax.html   (330 words)

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