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Bat Boy, Hillary Clinton's Alien Baby, and a Tabloid's Glorious Legacy
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A new collection gathers the greatest hits of The Weekly World News, a fantastical checkout-counter standby until 2007.
By Steven Heller
If you’ve ever waited in line at a grocery store, you’ve likely seen or read the Weekly World News.
When a magazine adopts screaming headlines like “I was Bigfoot’s Love Slave,” “Hillary Clinton Adopts Alien Baby,” and “Bat Child Found in Cave” it’s hard to miss it.
Founded in 1979, the Weekly World News represented the extremes of checkout-counter attention-grabbing tactics for nearly 30 years.
It highlighted tabloid journalism’s thin line between fiction and nonfiction: Though it was fiction from top to bottom, the paper nevertheless added an intriguing could it possibly be true? appeal. But after 28 years with a peak circulation of 1.2 million prints per issue, the paper edition ended in 2007, leaving only a website to keep the Bat Child’s