But what will I read in the checkout lines?

Horrors!

Publisher American Media Inc. said on Tuesday it will stop printing the Weekly World News, which for 28 years gleefully chronicled the exploits of alien babies, animal-human hybrids and dead celebrities.

The company said in a brief statement it would end the print version of the tabloid newspaper next month but would maintain the online version (www.weeklyworldnews.com).

"Due to the challenges in the retail and wholesale magazine marketplace that have impacted the newsstand, American Media, Inc. today announced it will close the print version of the Weekly World News, effective with the August 27 issue. Weekly World News was AMI's smallest weekly publication," the company said in a statement e-mailed to Reuters.

You realize what this means, don't you? Now college students who want to festoon their dorm room doors with WWN headlines and photos of Bat Boy will have to use their own paper. Oh, the humanity! Thanks to the equally traumatized 'stina for the heads up.

Posted by Charles Kuffner on July 25, 2007 to Other punditry