ED ANGER: “LEAVE PAT ROBERTSON ALONE!”
I'm madder than Ted Kennedy's ghost in Mormon Heaven that no one told me about Ed Anger's Twitter feed! (Also, the man who basically invented modern political discourse has a new website.)
I'm madder than Ted Kennedy's ghost in Mormon Heaven that no one told me about Ed Anger's Twitter feed! (Also, the man who basically invented modern political discourse has a new website.)
The wonders of electrical technology have created an iPhone app for the Weekly World News. Below, a look back at more than a decade of the fattest, skinniest, Satan-est, most eerie predictions and reports of America's greatest paper. Nostradamus, hello!
Entrepreneur and longtime entertainment executive Neil McGinness bought the deadpan supermarket tabloid Weekly World News from American Media, according to the Times, 14 months after the last issue was printed amid anemic circulation. McGinness has "revived" the website, which AMI had promised to keep open (as…
"[E]ach piece was written as if completely real. So when, for example, Bigfoot got married, launched his acting career and became involved with Kabbalah, each story got a dateline, quotes from "sources" and "experts" and followed a typical Associated Press structure. In fact, much of the original staff came from…
The history of the Weekly World News' angriest fictional columnist. [NYT]
From time to time the news cycle offers up an event of such import and complexity that it can only be comprehended through the medium of musical theater. This week resident composer Ben Greenman examines the demise of a beloved media institution.