So long bat boy, we hardly knew ye...

[cobalt1999]

No more Weekly World News. Too bad, I used to read them in the checkout lane and laugh and laugh.

http://sfscope.com/2007/07/more-on-weekly-world-news-clos.html

More on Weekly World News closing
By Ian Randal Strock July 22, 2007

Bob Greenberger, an editor with Weekly World News, reports on his blog that he and the rest of the staff were called into a meeting about noon on Friday where they were "told the Board of Directors has chosen to close Weekly World News. The reasons given make no sense. We're stunned and shell-shocked. We're to stay on through August 3, finishing the reprint issues and then we're done. A glorious, funny, odd publication, born in 1979, will go out with a whimper and all I can think is that something's going on that they're not telling us because it just doesn't make sense."