Weekly World News, we hardly knew ye.
A synopsis for those out of the loop.
The News was must-read during the latter part of my youth, back when it was still using real but wildly exaggerated news stories. There was a run of several months where their horoscope was dead on the money, and you could always count on Ed Anger for faux populist bluster (his shtick was a lot funnier before it became the official platform of the Republican party).
They lost their way when they abandoned reality entirely, becoming an explicit parody of supermarket tabloids. It might have worked in an Onion sort of way, except it wasn't funny.
Still, I have fond memories of the olden days.
Farewell, WWN.
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