Tabloid vs Tabloidism - What's the difference?
tabloid | tabloidism |
(publishing) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of the standard format, especially one that favours stories of a sensational nature over more serious news.
In the format of a .
Relating to a tabloid or tabloids.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The practices of tabloid journalism; gaudy sensationalism.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 22, author=Jon Caramanica, title=Once-Dreamy Indie Rockers, Masking Hurt With High-Gloss Sheen, work=New York Times
, passage=It was a high-water mark of indie-rock tabloidism —? or of major-network hipster-slumming. }}
As nouns the difference between tabloid and tabloidism
is that tabloid is a newspaper having pages half the dimensions of the standard format, especially one that favours stories of a sensational nature over more serious news while tabloidism is the practices of tabloid journalism; gaudy sensationalism.As an adjective tabloid
is in the format of a tabloid.tabloid
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* scandal sheet, tab (colloquial), yellow pressAntonyms
* broadsheetAdjective
(-)Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
See also
* compact * quality newspaper ----tabloidism
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(-)citation