• EP07: Weekly World News

  • Jul 6 2024
  • Length: 46 mins
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EP07: Weekly World News

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  • "Hillary Clinton Adopts Alien Baby", "First Photos of Heaven", "Osama Captured by Rednecks!"

    These are some of the bizarre headlines that you'll see on the cover of 'Weekly World News' -- a parody of magazines like National Enquirer. From its inception, Weekly World News stood out from its competition with it's hilarious and sometimes true headlines. They claim to have discovered a half-human, half-boy being called 'Batboy' and they've run with that for years. So popular there was an off-Broadway musical made about him.

    Join Tim and I as we discuss WWN's influence, impact, cover stories and more on this week's episode!

    Original Title: Nightmare News Stands: The Bizarre Headlines from Weekly World News

    Editor's Note: There may be times where we called this magazine 'World Weekly News' instead of 'Weekly World News'...apologies!

    Links referenced in Episode

    • Weekly World News (website)
    • Weekly World News that turned out to be TRUE (link)

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