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‘When Bat Boy goes behind a paywall, there’s nothing left to discuss’

January 16, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Poynter.org:

The Weekly World News left newsstands in 2007. “The Weekly World News was not one of those sleazy tabloids that cover tawdry celebrity scandals,” Peter Carlson wrote in an obituary for the paper. “It was a sleazy tabloid that covered events that seemed to occur in a parallel universe, a fevered dream world where pop culture mixed with urban legends, conspiracy theories and hallucinations.”

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