Salon.com > Stan Sinberg http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Farewell, Bat Boy http://www.salon.com/2007/08/25/weekly_world_news/ http://www.salon.com/2007/08/25/weekly_world_news/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2007/08/25/weekly_world_news When I heard that the Weekly World News was suspending publication after 28 years with its Aug. 27 issue, I hoped that the story was as true as the stories in the paper itself, the ones about Elvis and Bigfoot and Bat Boy and the rap artist who had "reverse Tourette's syndrome," which forced him to say something nice every time he tried to curse. That is, not true.

My interest went beyond being a faithful reader: The Weekly World News was my livelihood. I wrote a lot of those stories.

For three years, under various pseudonyms (including Jake Anderson -- a play on Jack Anderson, the great muckraker of my youth), I "reported" that the real reason for global warming was that teenage space aliens were stealing our glaciers for party ice, that the judicial system was in chaos because a thief stole "the book" that judges throw at them, that leftovers from the Last Supper were found in a man's fridge, and that a man who killed a fly was arrested for "pesticide" (the police chief chided, "That's why we have a SWAT team"). And several hundred more "scoops."

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