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When American Media Inc. announced a couple of weeks ago that it was shuttering the print edition of its famously fact-challenged Weekly World News, the media responded with the inevitable sarcastic headlines. Typical was Reuters’ “Weekly World News to close (aliens not blamed!).” But we’ve moved along to the full-blown-nostalgia phase, to judge by a lengthy homage this week in The Washington Post. It recounts the paper’s history and modus operandi (“Don’t fact-check your way out of a good story”) before offering the inevitable collection of favorite headlines.
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