Oh! Such a loss. I have back issues of the WWN going back through middle school and possibly before. They'd done such a great job recently promoting -- if I remember right they even got a cross-promotion deal with the TV series Supernatural -- that this is so out of the blue! Did their parent company get purchased or some such? On 7/23/07, Elliott C. Evans <eeyore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://bgb.malibulist.com/ > Friday morning, Jeff Rovin comes in for a meeting and then the staff > was to be called in. He's looking harried, not at all relaxed. At > 11:30, we're finally shown into an office where we are told the Board > of Directors has chosen to close Weekly World News. The reasons given > make no sense. We're stunned and shell-shocked. We're to stay on > through August 3, finishing the reprint issues and then we're done. A > glorious, funny, odd publication, born in 1979, will go out with a > whimper and all I can think is that something's going on that they're > not telling us because it just doesn't make sense. -- Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans eeyore@xxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Something mailing list Something@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/something
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