gutter press
(British, pejorative) The sensationalist tabloid newspapers in general.
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Gutter press. I am surprised the Times would sink this low.
He is supported by the rightwing foreign owned gutter press
guess how many mentions there are on sianuska's account of the actual antisemitism being printed by the gutter press from whom she makes her living
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(British, pejorative) The sensationalist tabloid newspapers in general.
“Gutter press. I am surprised the Times would sink this low.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“He is supported by the rightwing foreign owned gutter press”
— Bluesky· May 2026“guess how many mentions there are on sianuska's account of the actual antisemitism being printed by the gutter press from whom she makes her living”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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