Don’t be dissing the National Enquirer. What other media source would devote six pages of color photos to the important issue of “which actresses have had breast implants?” Time? No way. The Washington Post? Certainly not. Celebrity Skin? Well, okay, maybe. But U.S. News and World Report? I don’t think so.
Uh…mebbe it just LOOKED like the highly esteemed * name withheld to protect the innocent *. Far be it that I bust a decent paying gig!
No, the Mexican workers didn’t unleash Satan…I read in the WWN several years ago that the Northridge Quake (1994) did that. Didn’t you see the headline? One of the freeways was ripped open by the quake, and there is a picture of Satan coming out. It was the 5 freeway, I believe, which explains why traffic is such a bitch there…
The one I love is where a gardener says that an alien “raped” his week wacker.
My only complaint about the Weekly World News is that the stories don’t keep up with the headlines. I used to buy it to get the inside story on the fantastic headlines but the stories were all mundane and pointless, so I’m now content to read the best part while waiting in the checkout line.
I can vouch for their journalistic integrity, however, since my family was once featured in the WWN! My mother was widowed with two small children before she married my dad. Her first husband had had his car stolen once. The thief (apparently a friend of the first husband) repented forty years later and sent the value of the car (in 1950 dollars) to the local police asking them to track down his old buddy from whom he had stolen the car and give him the dough.
About six months after my (half) brother called my Mom to tell her the cops had stopped by with some cash, Mrs. Pluto and I were taking a little drive. Mrs. P. was at the wheel and I was perusing the WWN looking for details on the headlines and – there we were! My family, immortalized in the national press.
Well, it’s better than elelle’s “it might be somebody I know!”
Pluto! That is amazing! I would love to be featured in such a national treasure as WWN! Did you frame the article in case you were ever refuted?
I will admit to picking up a tabloid once in a great while for grins and giggles. For, what, $1.25 or so, they are great entertainment.
Also, if you travel alot and want to either start a conversation or keep the born-again zealot that always seems to sit next to you from yammering on, read one of the rag magazines. Prior to children, I use to pull out WWN and would start the craziest conversations with people. Great way to pass the time.
pluto: I should have put one of those winky smilie thingamabobs on my last post. I do know the raconteur behind the WWN Kitty Litter piece. He is a good friend, a musician and performance artist, who had his public heyday in the early seventies. Several appearances on the “Tonight Show” and his albums are collector’s items. He counts his WWN appearances as a great huzzah to the Fame Machine.
This, along with your great experience, illustrates how the WWN manages to walk the fine line between reality and entertaining fabrication. I know the fabrication pays pretty well.
Ironically enough, I stopped for groceries this evening and saw the new tabloid headline telling of the romance between Julia Roberts and … Brad Pitt.
How could Satan escape from an oil well in Mexico when I read 5 years ago in the WWN that his skull had been found in NEW Mexico??? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
You’re damn right. That’s all I’m contributing to this thread.
Well, as long as I’m here…
See, at camp, we used to always read the WWN- best newspaper we ever got. No ,seriously, each one would last us like two weeks, because we’d go out and buy one for the whole cabin, and each person would take one page, and then we’d pass em around till we had all read everything…ah, those were the days…hehe, “Lose 15 lbs in 30 days with…GODS DIET”
One of my best friends found a photo at a garage sale & sold it for $50k. Her story was in the Enquirer. So it was true, see?
I must come clean, I buy the Enquirer…every week. I think of it as comic books for grownups. Like soap operas, for entertainment, not to be believed. And the WWN? WAY to over the edge…“I had bigfoots baby” and the alien adopted by the president and living in the white house were my favorites!