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| Integrity returns to national news media |
| 2008-10-15 |
| The Return of Weekly World News! Bat Boy is back! Boca Raton-based tabloid publisher American Media Operations Inc. has sold its late, wacky Weekly World News to Bat Boy LLC, an investment group that promises to restore the fake-news pub to its rightful place in the pop culture pantheon. I'm just glad that Ed Anger got his job back... American Media last year stopped publishing Weekly World News after the tabloid's circulation dropped below 100,000 copies a week. "The Weekly World News is a powerful brand in publishing, entertainment and online," said Weekly World News' new chief executive, Neil McGinness, in a statement released late Saturday. "The Weekly World News brand and its characters have inspired musicals, books, feature film projects and television shows over the years. We see tremendous potential for growing the brand and significantly expanding the business." Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and neither American Media nor McGinness could be reached for comment. I'll bet it didn't cost much. The buyers are named after the half-man, half-bat creature that first appeared on the cover of Weekly World News in 1992. Bat Boy became a popular staple of the tabloid, emerging from time to time to lead police on a high-speed chase, ride the top of a New York subway train, shed his wings and endorse Al Gore for president. As I remember, The Alien backed Bush... Weekly World News (motto: "The World's Only Reliable News") already has been revived online. Among the headlines on the Web site Monday: "Obatma!" featuring Barack Obama with a bat-eared half brother; "Keating Five Reunite for Basketball Game," which includes a doctored photo of John McCain in a hoops uniform; and "Palin Bags a Bigfoot," which shows the vice presidential candidate and her infant crouching by a downed Sasquatch. Is there anything she can't do! American Media still publishes National Enquirer and other supermarket tabs. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #1 What a relief. For a moment I thought CBS rehired Dan Rather. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-10-15 18:55 |