I can not believe the favorite tabloid of my youth, The Weekly World News, has made its premiere on Google Books. With a sizable percentage of the Facebook generation taking information gleaned from the internet as fact, you can almost imagine some of the hysterical middle school term papers that are bound be submitted in upcoming years - - -
A Paper For The Art Bell Crowd:
Based out of Florida, the Weekly World News was a supermarket tabloid that started out like it's contemporaries; printing gossip, weight loss plans, celebrity photos and other unreadable crap. From its premiere in 1980 through the turn of the decade, it had gradually transformed into a full blown fiction, with screaming headlines, pseudo stories, farked photos and weekly features from:
►Psychic Sophia Sabak - Later replaced by her younger, more attractive "niece" Serena
►Dear Dotty Advice Column - Innuendo-laced snark that made Xavier Hollander look tame
► Ed Anger's My America - Radical right editorials penned by a stone-age Archie Bunker
