Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:24:22 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Things of Interest
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>ronkean at juno.com 10/29/02 04:33PM
>>On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:03:59 -0500 "Michael Walsh"
><MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> writes:
>
>> It's really hard to be taken seriously when there also folks like
>> this out =
>> there: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/aliens.cfm?page=6
>>
>>  . . . with "friends" like these . . . .
>>
>> mjw
>>
>
>That page does list a truly bizarre set of space alien 'facts'.  However,
>I'm skeptical.  I checked the 'contact info', and it appears the Weekly
>World News is operated by American media, Inc., based in Boca Raton =
FL.
>That organization is a notorious publisher of 'tabloids', so I am led to
>suspect that the WWN is a 'tabloid', and thus not necessarily a reliable
>source of information.

Oh, they so unreliable as to be great reading in a consuite.

Anyone who actually believes what the Weekly World News publishes probably =
has also bought the Brooklyn Bridge, more than once.

mjw