gutter press


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press that engages in sensational journalism (especially concerning the private lives of public figures)

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The gutter press can stoop exceedingly low, but I cannot see them bestowing such an unkind monicker on the Barnes Wallace-breasted Miss Lloyd.
Soderbergh's film traces the men's relationship from a fortuitous first meeting in 1977 to Liberace's death bed in 1987, when the entertainer attempted to keep his HIV status secret from fans and the gutter press.
Then the "gutter press" gets hold of the story, drops the adjectives and counter-arguments (you can get away with that when you are accusing an entire country), finds billboards in Russian on Limassol highway, posts pictures of Christofias looking uncannily like Brezhnev (Das Bild) and the accusations stick like toffee on suede.
I've just had the worst time in my life rubbing shoulders--actually masts--with ghastly ex-Soviet gangsters, now being referred to as oligarchs by the gutter press and the New York Times-Washington Post camorra.
Cancer sometimes requires surgery: cutting Murdoch out of the British media industry would certainly help clean up the gutter press.
But this vicarious blood lust reflects something altogether more significant than the bald fact, which we have known for some time, that the journalists of Britain's gutter press are little more than semi-eloquent thugs.
"Given that it was the Daily Mirror, under my editorship, which exposed Sven's fling with Ulrika Jonsson after learning of a similar message left by the then England manager on her phone, I can only hope and pray that the gutter press (ha ha) aren't hacking into my mobile now," the reference added.
THE phrase "gutter press" has been used often with little merit.
In a world dominated by gutter Press and censored media, long may independently-minded reporting go unchecked.
The gutter press was evidently as bad then as it is now, as the film documents some tabloid speculation that Polanski actually masterminded the murder.
He has been misquoted and misunderstood and the readers of the gutter press inflamed unnecessarily.
I have grown up with the Chronicle and always thought it to be a balanced good read, does it really have to stoop down to gutter press sensationalism like so many of the tabloids?"
Your reports and columns are a breath of fresh air to an otherwise stench filled gutter press reporting of the Scottish game, seen through Green tinted specs by the majority who masquerade under false pretenses as "Journalists".