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Child of Immigrants
As a child of immigrants growing up in New York in 1980's, I remember my recently arrived parents and older relatives taking (initially) papers such as the Weekly World News quite seriously. Why? well,there was the language barrier issue (my parents were learning a new language and reading "local" papers is the best way to do it,and in some underdeveloped countries (run by dictators, etc.) the quality of certain local papers are quite similar. Eventually, my 4th grade education enabled me to convince my mother and aunts that they were reading trash. But we were still hooked long after we new the truth (like WWF Wrestling!). WWN was part of my family's introduction America, as I'm sure it was to many immigrants. cult