S3E16 | Tabloid: Weekly World News

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Two 80's nostalgia podcasters take deep dive into the world's only reliable news! That's right listeners, we were lucky enough to snag an interview with Greg D'Alessandro, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Weekly World News, to talk all things Elvis, Bat Boy, Manigator, Bigfoot Hooker, and the entire Marvel-esque cast of characters that bejeweled the supermarket checkout aisles of our childhoods with outrageous headlines and out of this world photos. Greg regales us with stories from WWN's past, present, and future as we thin-slice fact from fiction, uncover the paper's black and white origins, and have more fun than aliens skipping their saucer across Lake Erie. Tune into this episode because the more you listen, the more you get involved!

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-- Can I Borrow Your Notes? -- 

• Weekly World News official site
• Submit your stories to Weekly World News!
• Weekly World News archives, 1981-2007 (University of Pennsylvania)
• Bring back Weekly World News! Kickstarter video
• How Weekly World News helped set the stage for contemporary satire (Rotten Tomatoes Editorial)

 

-- Teacher's Pets -- 

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• Theme song by Greg Reed, with vocals by Chad Bumford
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