Wed, Feb 6th 2002 4:49pm

Is Britney A Space Alien? Don't Look Online

from the and-I-really-wanted-to-know dept

The Weekly World News, a tabloid famous for telling us who impregnated the Loch Ness Monster, and the latest adventures of "Bat Boy" this week has an article about whether or not Britney Spears is an alien. However, for those of us online, we apparently won't get to read it. Instead, the Weekly World News has temporarily shut down their website and asked their "true" fans to go out and buy the paper copy from their local super market. The website says: "We would like you to buy the paper at least one stinking week out of the year. We want to see who our true fans are. We want to know who loves us. We want to keep our jobs." Well, there's a business model idea...

Add Your Comment

Have a Techdirt Account? Sign in now. Want one? Register here
Name
Email	Get Techdirt’s Daily Email
URL
Subject
Comment	this is for spambots, do not use this
Options	Plain Text HTML Save me a cookie

Plain Text: A CRLF will be replaced by break tag, all other allowable HTML is intact
HTML: No formatting of any kind is done without explicitly being written in
Allowed HTML Tags: <a> <blockquote> <hr> <tt>

A Different Kind of Health Concern >>

<< The Few Dot Coms That Are Hiring

Search Techdirt

And now, a word from our Sponsors..

Subscribe to Techdirt's Daily Email Newsletter

And now, a word from our Sponsors..