The Weekly World News is shutting down its print operation at the end of August, though the web site will continue to be active. Long lines in the supermarket will be that much duller.
Actually, a moment of silence is probably the wrong tribute. Maybe a moment of screeching like a bat child found in a cave, instead?
(True WWN anecdote: A friend of mine in college applied for a job with the Weekly World News after graduation. Sadly, he didn’t get a rejection letter written by Bigfoot, or anything. I’m not sure they responded at all, actually…)
(He was an art major, who did a woodblock print based on the famous “Bat Boy” picture as part of his senior show, and even sold a few copies at $50 a pop. I’ve got one of his prints, titled “Death at the Monster Truck Rally,” hanging in my room at my parents’ house, but sadly, he hasn’t become famous, at least not that I’ve noticed…)