To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:14:58 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Things of Interest
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:24:22 -0500 "Michael Walsh"
<MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> writes:

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

Apparently the tabloids have a wide circulation, judging from the fact
that they are on display in nearly every second grocery checkout aisle in
the country.  I marvel at the implication that tens of millions of
American adults actually believe what they read in the tabloids.  But
perhaps many of the regular readers read them as a form of entertainment,
regarding the truth of the stories as irrelevant to that purpose.  For an
online 'news' source wherein none of the stories are true, but nearly all
are entertaining, see http://www.theonion.com/index.shtml .

Ron Kean

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