gutter press

British  

noun

1. the section of the popular press that seeks sensationalism in its coverage

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gutter press

“Maybe I’m incredibly naive but this is what I imagined 90s gutter press was like and most journalists had huge standards change since then.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2022

The novel’s hero arises unexpectedly from the lowest depths of the gutter press, “an inconsequential girl, a nobody” who, “on the basis of pure courage,” changes the lives of Peruvians.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2018

I would say, to anyone who believes that Gawker is just the gutter press, that those values are worth something even in the gutter.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2016

I'm a member of the OTO – Ordo Templi Orientis – an occult order founded by British genius Aleister Crowley, who was maligned by the gutter press.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2013

Thus, when a dignitary died—no matter what the medical diagnosis—it was announced in the gutter press that he died of "grief, caused by the national shame."

From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham

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