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** Stuey Gluck of ''Film/{{Freaked}}'' is unable to get the major newspapers to print his story about Ricky being kidnapped and turned into a mutant, but WWN happily runs it for him. Becomes a ChekhovsGun when the Feds finally come to the rescue because they read Stuey's article (they'd have shown up sooner, but apparently got sidetracked investing a few other stories in the same issue).

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** Stuey Gluck of ''Film/{{Freaked}}'' is unable to get the major newspapers to print his story about Ricky being kidnapped and turned into a mutant, but WWN happily runs it for him. Becomes a ChekhovsGun when the Feds finally come to the rescue because they read Stuey's article (they'd have shown up sooner, but apparently got sidetracked investing investigating a few other stories in the same issue).
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* HeAlsoDid: FolkMusic singer-songwriter Bob Lind, who was a OneHitWonder in TheSixties with "Elusive Butterfly", was a staff writer for many years (using the byline R. Neale Lind), and co-created Bat Boy with staff artist Dick Kulpa.

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* HeAlsoDid: FolkMusic singer-songwriter SingerSongwriter Bob Lind, who was whose "Elusive Butterfly" made him a OneHitWonder in TheSixties with "Elusive Butterfly", TheSixties, was a staff writer for many years (using the byline R. Neale Lind), and co-created Bat Boy with staff artist Dick Kulpa.

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** Some media specializing in the strange, including ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and ''Film/MenInBlack'', cite WWN as being a reputable, informative news source. Charlie's mom in ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'' also refers to WWN as "the paper" and the plot revolves around Charlie discovering that a featured article about an axe-wielding BlackWidow just might be real, and he just might be dating her.

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** Some media specializing in the strange, including ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and ''Film/MenInBlack'', cite WWN as being a reputable, informative news source.
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Charlie's mom in ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'' also refers to WWN as "the paper" and the plot revolves around Charlie discovering that a featured article about an axe-wielding BlackWidow just might be real, and he just might be dating her.her.
** Stuey Gluck of ''Film/{{Freaked}}'' is unable to get the major newspapers to print his story about Ricky being kidnapped and turned into a mutant, but WWN happily runs it for him. Becomes a ChekhovsGun when the Feds finally come to the rescue because they read Stuey's article (they'd have shown up sooner, but apparently got sidetracked investing a few other stories in the same issue).
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** Some media specializing in the strange, including ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and ''Film/MenInBlack'', cite WWN as being a reputable, informative news source.

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** Some media specializing in the strange, including ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and ''Film/MenInBlack'', cite WWN as being a reputable, informative news source. Charlie's mom in ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'' also refers to WWN as "the paper" and the plot revolves around Charlie discovering that a featured article about an axe-wielding BlackWidow just might be real, and he just might be dating her.
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* RecycledScript: Dotti and Serena's columns would occasionally reuse letters from previous columns with minor changes.
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* HeAlsoDid: FolkMusic singer-songwriter Bob Lind, who was a OneHitWonder in TheSixties with "Elusive Butterfly", was a staff writer for many years, and co-created Bat Boy with staff artist Dick Kulpa.

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* HeAlsoDid: FolkMusic singer-songwriter Bob Lind, who was a OneHitWonder in TheSixties with "Elusive Butterfly", was a staff writer for many years, years (using the byline R. Neale Lind), and co-created Bat Boy with staff artist Dick Kulpa.
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** [[https://images.pinside.com/3/f0/3f05edf87c11fc75897efb5d11e42e40d7d3c7c4/resized/large/3f05edf87c11fc75897efb5d11e42e40d7d3c7c4.png One article]] about ''Deathball 2000'', a {{pinball}} machine that [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame kills players who fail to score above a certain threshold]], inspired Creator/DataEast's pinball division to pseudo-{{defictionaliz|ation}}e years later. ''Pinball/WWFRoyalRumble'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwyo9QqOYiY promotes it as though it were their next game]] in the AttractMode (if the option is enabled), and the company went so far as to [[https://images.pinside.com/f/bb/fbbfaa239a91fd54d9960dd97f46bd4cc60759f0/resized/large/fbbfaa239a91fd54d9960dd97f46bd4cc60759f0.jpg create a fake translite]] and put it on display at one Pinball Expo (with everything else obscured).

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** [[https://images.pinside.com/3/f0/3f05edf87c11fc75897efb5d11e42e40d7d3c7c4/resized/large/3f05edf87c11fc75897efb5d11e42e40d7d3c7c4.png One article]] about ''Deathball 2000'', a {{pinball}} machine that [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame kills players who fail to score above a certain threshold]], inspired Creator/DataEast's pinball division to pseudo-{{defictionaliz|ation}}e years later. ''Pinball/WWFRoyalRumble'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwyo9QqOYiY promotes it as though it were their next game]] in the AttractMode (if the option is enabled), and the company went so far as to [[https://images.pinside.com/f/bb/fbbfaa239a91fd54d9960dd97f46bd4cc60759f0/resized/large/fbbfaa239a91fd54d9960dd97f46bd4cc60759f0.jpg create a fake translite]] and put it on display at one Pinball Expo (with everything else every other part of the machine obscured).

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* ReferencedBy: Some media specializing in the strange, including ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and Film/MenInBlack, cite WWN as being a reputable, informative news source.

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Some media specializing in the strange, including ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and Film/MenInBlack, ''Film/MenInBlack'', cite WWN as being a reputable, informative news source.source.
** [[https://images.pinside.com/3/f0/3f05edf87c11fc75897efb5d11e42e40d7d3c7c4/resized/large/3f05edf87c11fc75897efb5d11e42e40d7d3c7c4.png One article]] about ''Deathball 2000'', a {{pinball}} machine that [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame kills players who fail to score above a certain threshold]], inspired Creator/DataEast's pinball division to pseudo-{{defictionaliz|ation}}e years later. ''Pinball/WWFRoyalRumble'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwyo9QqOYiY promotes it as though it were their next game]] in the AttractMode (if the option is enabled), and the company went so far as to [[https://images.pinside.com/f/bb/fbbfaa239a91fd54d9960dd97f46bd4cc60759f0/resized/large/fbbfaa239a91fd54d9960dd97f46bd4cc60759f0.jpg create a fake translite]] and put it on display at one Pinball Expo (with everything else obscured).
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* HeAlsoDid: FolkMusic singer-songwriter Bob Lind, who was a OneHitWonder in TheSixties with "Elusive Butterfly", was a staff writer for many years, and co-created Bat Boy with staff artist Dick Kulpa.

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* HeAlsoDid: FolkMusic singer-songwriter Bob Lind, who was a OneHitWonder in TheSixties with "Elusive Butterfly", was a staff writer for many years, and co-created Bat Boy with staff artist Dick Kulpa.Kulpa.
* ReferencedBy: Some media specializing in the strange, including ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and Film/MenInBlack, cite WWN as being a reputable, informative news source.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The exec who took over didn't even like being associated with it.

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* ExecutiveMeddling: The exec who took over didn't even like being associated with it.it.
* HeAlsoDid: FolkMusic singer-songwriter Bob Lind, who was a OneHitWonder in TheSixties with "Elusive Butterfly", was a staff writer for many years, and co-created Bat Boy with staff artist Dick Kulpa.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The exec who took over didn't even like being associated with it.

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