supermarket tabloid
Scandalous checkout reading
A supermarket tabloid is a sensationalist newspaper sold at grocery store checkout lines, featuring celebrity gossip, scandal, and outlandish headlines about aliens, miracle cures, or secret affairs.
The format exploits impulse buying while shoppers wait: She grabbed a supermarket tabloid to read about the royal family drama.
The term often implies dubious journalism.
- newsstandBooth selling periodicals
- checkout lineWhere purchases are completed
- grocery storeFood and supplies retailer
- yellow journalismReporting prioritizing shock value
- pop cultureMass entertainment and trends
magazine · horoscopes · fake news · scandal · love child · pseudoscience · miracle cures · National Enquirer · batboy · media sensationalism · privacy invasion · crime stories · urban legends · convenience store · newspaper · public opinion · periodical · entertainment industry
supermarket tabloidThe New York Times
Leading American newspaper
The Washington Post · broadsheet · The Wall Street Journal · hard news · investigative journalism
supermarket tabloidhard news
Factual, timely journalism
political analysis · investigative report · broadsheet · news analysis · white paper
supermarket tabloidThe Atlantic
American current affairs magazine
The New Yorker · The Economist · quality press · literary magazine · Foreign Affairs
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