Bat Boy investors revive 'Weekly World News'

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Palm Beach Post

Bat Boy's back!

Boca Raton-based tabloid publisher American Media Operations Inc. has sold its late, wacky Weekly World News to Bat Boy LLC, an investment group that promises to restore the fake-news pub to its rightful place in the pop culture pantheon.

American Media last year stopped publishing Weekly World News after the tabloid's circulation dropped below 100,000 copies a week.

"The Weekly World News is a powerful brand in publishing, entertainment and online," said Weekly World News' new chief executive, Neil McGinness, in a statement released late Saturday. "The Weekly World News brand and its characters have inspired musicals, books, feature film projects and television shows over the years. We see tremendous potential for growing the brand and significantly expanding the business." . . .

Read more: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/business/epaper/2008/10/13/a6b_batboy_1014.html

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And none too soon. We will need his steady hand to assist President Obama the next eight years.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Maybe we'll hear more about HillaryC's affair with P'lod. He has a 21 inch tongue...

"...And understands her as Bill never did."