Tabloid News Sites

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In the newspaper industry, a tabloid is a smaller newspaper format per spread; for a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest stories and entertainment, often distributed free of charge, or for a newspaper that tends to sensationalize and emphasize or exaggerate sensational crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous and innuendos about the deeply personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and other so-called "junk food news" or junk mail. As the term "tabloid" has become synonymous with down-market newspapers in some areas, some small-format papers which claim a higher standard of journalism refer to themselves as "compact" newspapers instead.

The word "Tabloid" comes from the name given by the London based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as "Tabloid" pills in the late 1880s. Prior to compressed tablets, medicine was usually taken in bulkier powder form. While Burroughs Wellcome & Co. were not the first to derive the technology to make compressed tablets, they were the most successful at marketing them, hence the popularity of the term 'tabloid' in popular culture. The connotation of tabloid was soon applied to other small items and to the "compressed" journalism that condensed stories into a simplified, easily-absorbed format. The label of "tabloid journalism" (1901) preceded the smaller sheet newspapers that contained it (1918).

We’ve searched for sites that use today’s media and entertainment technologies to deliver news stories with a twist. Here, we’ll present some lesser known Internet sites that provide information & articles – you might not find anyplace else!

There are fewer than 20 great Websites on this page & they’re sorted A-Z for easy navigation. As we continue to add to our listing, we’ll add pages and organize logically. These pages will only contain links to resources that we also use.

Finding smaller Internet sites that cover gossip, rumors and strange events can be a difficult task. Many of these “hard-to-find” sites were created out of someone’s enthusiasm for a particular area of interest.

The daily tabloids in the United States date back to the founding of the New York Daily News in 1919, followed by the New York Daily Mirror and the New York Evening Graphic in the 1920s. Competition among those three for crime, sex and celebrity news was considered a scandal to the mainstream press of the day. In comparison, today's American daily tabloids are generally much less overheated and less oriented towards scandal and sensationalism than their predecessors, or their British counterparts. With the exception of the supermarket tabloids (see below), which have little mainstream credibility, the word "tabloid" in the U.S. can refer more to format than to content. The tabloid format is used by a number of respected and indeed prize-winning American papers.

In the People's Republic of China, Chinese tabloids have exploded in popularity since the mid-1990s and have tested the limits of press censorship by taking editorial positions critical of the government and by engaging in critical investigative reporting.

Like Pooler-Georgia-HOMEPAGE, these sites often contain little gems of information – that simply can’t be found on the major corporate “Tabloid News” type Websites.

Because the Internet is filled with large corporations trying to sell you news embedded with tons of advertising, smaller “less commercial” Tabloid News Sites often don’t get high rankings at the search engines.

This doesn’t mean the big guys deliver the unique stories you’re looking for - but it does mean you’re forced to look through dozens of search page results & dozens of “pop-up” ads to find exciting news about our unusual world.

Tabloid News Sites

• Computer Fun World

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Website:

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• Willinois World

The Willinois Nation is an ever growing force that plans to take over the internet world! In our dreams! Our goal is to create a strange internet experience that entertains or at least amuses. If we fail, who care, we are having a good time!

Website:

http://www.willinois.com

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The term "tabloid" can also refer to a newspaper that tends to emphasize topics such as sensational crime stories, astrology, gossip columns about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and junk food news. Often, tabloid newspaper allegations about the sexual practices, drug use, or private conduct of celebrities is borderline defamatory; in many cases, celebrities have successfully sued for libel, demonstrating that tabloid stories have defamed them. It is this sense of the word that led to some entertainment news programs to be called tabloid television. Tabloid newspapers are sometimes pejoratively called the gutter press.

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