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Tabloid vs Tabloidism - What's the difference?

tabloid | tabloidism |

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

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * scandal sheet, tab (colloquial), yellow press

    Antonyms

    * broadsheet

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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= 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

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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 citation
  • , passage=It was a high-water mark of indie-rock tabloidism —? or of major-network hipster-slumming. }}