(slang, derogatory, or, humorous) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose news reports are considered uninteresting or unreliable and whose editorial opinions are regarded with indifference or disapproval.
Just as the sports pages are a first-read when the home team is hot and fish wrap when they are not, consumers tuned out when the market tanked, snapping off CNBC and leaving their business magazines in the to-do pile.
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