I'm hard pressed to think of a place I'd rather work than the Weekly World News. I love that stuff.
From the PalmBeachPost:
For two decades under his watch, the black-and-white irreverent stepsister of the National Enquirer kept Elvis alive, then one day announced, "Elvis Dead at 56." It discovered missing World War II bombers on the moon. Its space alien endorsed Bill Clinton for president. After it revealed the existence of baby ghosts, some 1,000 readers wrote in, wanting to adopt.
and
His staff came from London's Fleet Street and from Harvard, Penn, Bryn Mawr, major publishing houses, even The New York Times. They were paid well, often twice the going rate for work at major newspapers.
"We have to pay them a lot," Clontz once said, "because we are, in effect, asking them to end their careers.... We're the French Foreign Legion of journalism." |
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