Media

How the media would handle the end of the world

Kristine Lowe

06 Feb 2008 — 1 min read

From a comment thread on Steven Smith's News is a Conversation blog:

USA Today: WE'RE DEAD.
Wall Street Journal: Dow Jones Plummets as World Ends
National Enquirer: Britney Parties While Millions Die
Rolling Stone: The Grateful Dead Reunion Tour
Sports Illustrated: Game Over
Playboy: Girls of the Apocalypse
Redbook: Lose 10 Pounds by Judgment Day with Our New "Armageddon" Diet!
TV Guide: Death and Damnation -- Nielson Ratings Soar!
Discover Magazine: How will the extinction of all life as we know it affect the way we view the cosmos?

Spokane Journal of Business: World Ends, Local Housing Market Unaffected
KREM News: Earth T-Boned by Giant Asteroid
KXLY News: Sound-Off Question - Could Armageddon have been prevented if our kids had spent more classroom time on the Bible and less on the WASL?
KHQ News: The World Is Ending -- Coffee's on Us!
Spokesman-Review: Life on Earth Ends, More Newsroom Cuts Possible

Do follow this link for a few more newspaper jokes...

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