scandal sheets
Trashy gossip publications
Scandal sheets are newspapers or magazines that specialize in sensational stories about celebrities, politicians, and public figures—emphasizing gossip, affairs, and disgrace over serious journalism.
The term is somewhat dated; tabloids now covers similar territory.
The scandal sheets had a field day with the senator's affair.
- yellow journalismReporting prioritizing shock value
- tabloidSensationalist newspaper format
- gutter pressDisreputable sensationalist newspapers
- paparazziAggressive celebrity photographers
- gossipInformal talk spreading rumors
muckraking · rumors · celebrity · kiss and tell · sensationalism · rags · lurid details · dirty laundry · whisper network · Fleet Street · breaking news · notoriety · exposé · tittle-tattle · salaciousness · public shaming · character assassination · smear campaign
- Regency SocietyRegency, manners, etiquette, courtship, ballrooms
- tabloid mediasensationalism, tabloids, yellow journalism, tabloidization, gossip columns
- chapbookschapbooks, booklet, booklets, blue books, cheap print
- newspaper worldcolumnists, front page, byline, newsprint, broadsheet
- gossiprumor, rumors, gossip, hearsay, whisper
- periodicalsmagazines, magazine, newspaper, journals, periodicals
scandal sheetsbroadsheets
Large-format newspapers
mainstream media · quality press · legacy media · The New York Times · responsible journalism
scandal sheetshard news
Factual, timely journalism
investigative journalism · news analysis · academic journals · trade publications · political journalism
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