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scandal sheet
noun
A tabloid newspaper containing gossip and sensational news stories pertaining especially to well-known people.
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The business pages of American newspapers "should not read like a scandal sheet".
CALLED A "SCANDAL SHEET" Names of Prominent Men and Women Introduced as Objects of Veiled Attacks.
In the age of Gawker, Twitter, and TMZ.com, a weekly scandal sheet seems quaint, if not archaic.
During the 1997 general election campaign, the Sun and the News of the World, Murdoch's Sunday scandal sheet, backed Blair.
The highbrow press pretends to dismiss a tabloid as "a scandal sheet for overweight proles" while promptly recycling its stories.
People dozed or read Red Pepper, Uganda's scandal sheet, with screaming headlines such as "Husband made me breastfeed puppies".
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This is the same conglomerate that publishes tabloid scandal sheets worldwide and was itself scandalized by revelations that journalists were hacking phones for their news scoops.
Like novels and scandal sheets, snapshots are windows, however smeary, into other lives.
At the time the scandal sheets claimed there was a romance between her and Nazzari.
At its hub was the via Veneto, where the scoop-chasing photographers and scandal sheets reigned.
And your readers deserved better than being exposed to family squabbles better fit for scandal sheets.
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