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tabloid TV

American  

noun

  1. a television program or television programming that is lurid or sensational, as unconventional newscasts and gossipy talk shows.


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The entrepreneurial zeal shown by Levine helped land him a job in 1992 as managing editor of “A Current Affair,” a pioneering tabloid TV show that featured exhaustive coverage of O.J.

From Seattle Times Jun. 3, 2024

“Fred was making a lot of ancillary dough then, appearing on tabloid TV shows like ‘Inside Edition,’” Ellroy says.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2021

The idea of tabloid TV as cultural boogeyman feels almost quaint now.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 2018

Franken presented evidence that O’Reilly had falsely boasted that Inside Edition, a tabloid TV show on which O’Reilly worked, had won two Peabody Awards.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2017

What those people did has already provided the fodder for numerous books, movies, magazine articles and half-baked tabloid TV specials.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2016

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