Letters to the Editor
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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
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Interesting
The WWN website is running a bunch of right wing ads. That speaks volumes.
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I blame Bush
And Israel, since they control the media
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I Love You, Stan!
Stan, after three years at WWN, you must have made my day at least once.
I found WWN in the early 80's on a checkout stand in Shreveport, LA while I was in college. "Pries Explodes During Exorcism!" translated to, "Buy Me NOW!" So I did. For decades. I had a Space Alien/Politics collage on my bedroom wall that I am still kicking myself for failing to frame. In fact, I'm pig bitin' mad!
My friends and I were addicted, and I wrote my own story once. "Elvis is Living in My Vagina." It's around here somewhere, never to see the pages of WWN.
Thank you, Stan, for your writing and your fellow writers. WWN was a joy.
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Wonderful
You made my morning, coffee and laughter is much better than coffee alone.
The fact that you've written for the "worlds only reliable newspaper" and currently labor for the magazine that caused me to pee my pants laughing when I was eleven earns you a place in my personal heroes column.
Bob Higgins
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Professional
I once sold a picture of a friend to WWN which they photoshopped into the smallest waisted woman in the world. It ran on the front page. Ever since, I have considered myself a professionally published photographer, a front page kind of guy. Thanks, WWN for existing.
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Tell me it ain't so!
You're saying the stuff in WWN wasn't true?
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A Sad Day
A world without the possibility of Rumfeldstiltskin? I can hardly imagine such a sad prospect.
Even though I never bought a copy, it always brightened the checkout line. (And I was glad to discover what's really going on with all that missing glacial ice! Damn you, teenage space aliens!)
My condolences to Stan Sinberg, if he was still at it when the paper folded. And my compliments to him for his work there and on Salon.
Don Singleton
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..... nothing but the truth .....
And you ALL believe that the dude's name really is SINBERG?
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Remember when irony was for smart people?
That made me feel really out-of-it. People would say stuff with double meanings, and I'd be like, Huh.
Now Salon has done me a big favor. I GET WWN! I GET Heather Whosiletsky!
Now I'm not dumb anymore!
A Hapless Twelve-Year-Old
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Hasn't this article been done a hundred times before?
This is, like, so old. It seems like I've read - well, i didn't read this one - so many of these "I use to write for those weird Florida-based tabs you high muckty-mucks find so beneath you" stories.
Saturday salon I guess.
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saving the press
Sinberg's piece should help us remember that humor is the staff of political life when everything seems so bleak. John McCain has more wit than any army of the liberals and the left. He's losing but he has the presence to joke about his weaknesses. But Sinberg has provided yet another tale of what's happening to the wayward press. Online pubs may be prospering(maybe not) but the financial crunch is so severe for most that we are in danger of losing the best of them, not to mention the worst. Where is the grass roots movement to save the press.
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Nobody has mentioned the best part:
Which was "My America by Ed Anger" which until Bush was elected I thought was pure, hilarious fiction. Oops, guess someone was reading it seriously after all.
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Favorite headline...
...Ticking of Woman's Biological Clock Keeping Neighbors Awake.
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I was in Weekly World News!!
Way back in 1987, I saved my cat, who had broken into a bag of garbage and was choking on a Cornish hen bone, by using the Heimlich maneuver. Over lunch that week, I told the story to a friend of mine, who worked at the NY Post. I was just telling it to him the way I'd told it to all my friends, but he suddenly got this glazed, almost hypnotized look on his face, which I soon realized meant "This would be a great New York Post story!!" So he wrote it up and I appeared on what he informed me was the "bimbo spread," on page 7, opposite the fabled Page Six column (imagine how flattering that is!!). Then I had to endure the taunts of friends calling me saying, "So, you saved your cat with the Heimlich maneuver -- and then you called ... the New York Post?!?" Normally this would have involved lots of explanation on my part to get out of it, but I pretty much had them cold when I said, "...and, um, how did you happen to SEE it in the New York Post?!?"
Several weeks later, he came by my office, seriously pissed, with a copy of Weekly World News. It had lifted the story -- including the photo -- and simply slapped on a new byline and lead. It wasn't humiliating enough to be in the Post -- now I was in the Weekly World News!! But of course I still have a copy of it...
So there you go -- not everything in there was made up!!
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1992
1992 was the best year for the WWN, that was when that space alien was trying to decide which candidate to endorse for president. There was a picture of him meeting with Clinton, and Clinton held it up and said he was broadening his base.
I think the alien finally settled on Perot, and when asked about it, Bush acted surprised, and said the alien had betrayed him, lol. That's when politics was sort of fun.