Weekly World News

Weekly World News was a magazine from the U.S., according Subtitles "The World's only reliable news paper" ( The only trusted newspaper in the world ).

WWN brought week after week fantastic reports from the field of tabloid journalism, reaching a circulation of millions. According to information from the leaf makers, many Americans had banished for years their "normal" daily newspaper out of the house and based their entire worldview solely on the information from the WWN. According to the leaf line, this message was, however, to enjoy with caution - and therefore fit perfectly with the image.

In 1979, when the National Enquirer first published in color, the publisher decided to launch a new magazine in black and white, to use the freed capacity of the printing press further. So WWN was established and filled with stories that did not make it in the Enquirer.

WWN was coined by the late 2004 Eddie Clontz, the 1981 33 -year-old started there and worked up to chief editor. He banished the classic celebrity stories, holding instead the journalists to invent fantastic stories. He himself wrote under the pseudonym Ed Anger pamphlets on gays, foreigners, speed limits and the like.

However, he had his greatest success in the spring of 1988, when a housewife from Kalamazoo, Michigan, the editors called and informed her that she had seen Elvis Presley. This led to the now world famous quote was " Elvis is alive " and the myth that the King has just faked his death. This output reached 1.2 million copies sold, the highest circulation in the history of WWN. They also had potential for consequential and stories like " The first interview " " In the coffin was a doppelganger ."

At the end of the stories were not more of the " Foreign Legion of journalism " ( Clontz ) written, but by authors of trivial art. The last chief editor Jeff Rovin is a successful author of science fiction books ( writing books for Tom Clancy ) and has worked for DC Comics.

The newspaper had a circulation of 80,000 copies last. Your readership was divided: On one hand, people who see WWN a surrealistic satire magazine and on the other hand, the "true believers ", conspiracy theorists and religious fundamentalists, who despite the warning on page two all believed what was set before them by the editors. This in turn had to balance out their stories so that they can be read both ways.

Examples of topics relating to the presentation of the strong at the sensationalistic style oriented sheet are:

  • Elvis is alive! Housewife sees King in the supermarket
  • Aliens healed me of diabetes
  • Man brings baby into the world
  • Moon landing was made ​​only
  • Noah's Ark found
  • I get Bigfoot's baby!
  • Photographed devil face on giant asteroid
  • The final proof that God exists
  • Frightened villagers fleeing garstigem devil chicken
  • Gold -eating termites attack Fort Knox
  • First Interview with extraterrestrial visitors
  • Titanic captain was a woman
  • Tenth planet in our solar system could be home to the hell

In the early 1990s came the sheet to Europe: The journalist Peter J. Muller ( Netherlands ) and Joachim Steinkamp ( Germany ) took five years De Nieuwe for the Netherlands and Flanders and New special for Germany, Austria and the German-speaking part of Switzerland on the market.

In August 2007, the print edition has been discontinued, the last issue was published on the 27th of the month.

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