Satire in Surreal Time: “I’m worried about the Weekly World News. It is published by the same company that puts out such supermarket tabloids as the Sun, the Globe and the National Enquirer. Anthrax has been found in the company’s Florida headquarters, and one Sun editor recently died of the disease. It sounds like a WWN headline — Anthrax Attacks America’s Tabloids! — but it’s all too grimly true.

Weekly World News is sometimes mistaken for a supermarket tabloid, but nothing could be further from the truth. Tabloids such as the Sun and the National Enquirer cover celebrity scandals and other tawdry trash. WWN is completely different. It prints detailed news dispatches from a parallel universe, a weirdly familiar dreamworld where popular culture mixes with urban legends, paranoid delusions and bizarre fantasies.

Consider just a few of the treasures found in WWN in the last month alone… Washington Post