From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Things of Interest
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:34:25 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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From: <ronkean at juno.com>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Cc: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:33 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Things of Interest

>
> 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.

Yes, it's the silliest and stupidest of all tabloids, bar none.  I know
people who read it regularly, just for the sheer hilarity.  It has created
its own mythology around Space Aliens, the Clintons, and assorted other
things.

--Ted White