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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

Instead, she had tabloid TV crews camped on her lawn, was portrayed as a wronged underling in the national press, and was called to testify before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 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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