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  • noun The practices of tabloid journalism; gaudy sensationalism.

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tabloid +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • More and more of the traditional media is sliding down the slippery slope that leads to sleazy tabloidism; I expect very little improvement from them on climate change, peak oil, general sustainability, and just about any public policy issue.

    Shock horror: Naked denialist narrative runs rampant | Serendipity 2010

  • They love marriages that fall apart and people who fight and the utter stupidity of all of reality television and tabloidism.

    CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2009 2009

  • That's a very smart idea, in this day of tabloidism, to leave this family alone a while.

    CNN Transcript May 26, 2009 2009

  • It's this kind of Dowd tabloidism "-- he's talking about Maureen Dowd --" much of it without merit, and most without any relevancy toward what it takes to run this country for the benefit of its people, that is the malignancy within the mainstream media.

    CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2008 2008

  • Their instinct toward tabloidism is like a junkie's impulse toward crack.

    Jeff Cohen: TV News Vultures Circling JonBenet's Corpse -- Again 2008

  • The great fear about Rupert Murdoch, among journalists and proper liberals everywhere, beyond even his tabloidism and his right-wing politics, is that he acknowledges no rules.

    Tuesdays with Rupert Wolff, Michael 2008

  • Brown bashers accuse the onetime ABC News journo of, among other things, having gone flabby; they say that CNN's leadership team, under pressure from category leader Fox News, has steered the network's flagship newscast away from straight reporting and increasingly into the realm of tabloidism, where Roger Ailes has rarely feared to tread.

    Cable Neuhaus: Standing up for CNN's Aaron Brown 2008

  • A new species of legal tabloidism is taking root in mass culture, and it extends beyond this case.

    The O.J. Legacy 2008

  • When I read of Dacre's rantings I wondered whether he could have said anything more likely to keep the legal door firmly bolted against prurient tabloidism.

    Paul Dacre's laughable attack on Eady J 2008

  • They replaced reason with emotion, confused law with theology and allowed politics and tabloidism to trump the privacy this agonizing family tragedy deserved.

    TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR 2007

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