''"ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt! Mother Teresa's face found in cinnamon bun! Extra Extra! Man's pet cat Flopsy abducted by aliens! Extra!"''

Sometimes newspapers of a more questionable level of veracity publish news that is clearly bunk, in the case of alien abductions and yetis being found. Other times they'll print that which might be true but seems to be kinda loopy and of questionable newsworthiness - toast burned in the likeness of historical figures for example. These stories are of course either complete fabrications in the former case (either made up by journalists or via bored AlanFridge-esque submissions), or are just questionable coincidences.

The news industry calls this type of "news" 'Man Bites Dog', but seems rather more mundane some of these stories actually tend to be. This sort of publication shows up in fiction from time to time too, especially ones which heavily feature either journalists or well known people (within their universe) frequently or where weird happenings really do occur and these stories are true - or sometimes these stories are bizarre even for the setting.

Not necessarily related to DoomyDoomsOfDoom.

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* In ''LikeAVelvetGloveCastInIron'', the main character reads one of these in his hotel room. The front cover reads: "What Elvis looks like now!", with a photograph of a sad old man attached.

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* In ''MenInBlack'' Agent K says this sort of news is actually very trustworthy when it comes to tracking aliens.

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* ''[[HarryPotter The Quibbler]]'' is a parody of this sort of newspaper, featuring stories about, among other things, Cornelius Fudge baking goblins into pies and Sirius Black being a wizard pop star in disguise. Also, the Muggle newspaper accounts of the flying Ford Anglia would have been written off as this by most.
* The competing paper in the {{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/TheTruth'', ''The Ankh-Morpork Inquirer'', publishes these sort of articles.
* Andrew Looney's novel ''TheEmptyCity'' features an elderly couple who are avid watchers of television and readers of the WeeklyWorldNews; when one of the latter's stories is that the Russians have developed a weapon that cranks up radiation levels from television to kill its watchers, they have to decide whether to abandon television or the Weekly World News.
* The Midwestern Arcane in ''TheDresdenFiles''. However, it turns out that much of the stuff they report is actually true.
* The "National World Weekly" in ''GoodOmens'' where Scarlet works briefly as a war reporter.

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* Subverting this was the entire point of the TV series ''The Chronicle''. Man goes to work at a tabloid, only to discover that all of their stories are true.
* The WeeklyWorldNews has been mentioned in a few episodes of ''{{Supernatural}}'' including being used as inspiration by a magical trickster.

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* The WeirdAlYankovic song "Midnight Star" is about a tabloid magazine like this.

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* [[http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/?doc=fr_spinayarn2005 Enjoy]] the ''ForgottenRealms'' tabloid. Titles like "Bane vs. Cyric -- Winner Take All!!!!" and "Dire Pandas From Kara-Tur Invade the Unapproachable East!" -- and much worse.
** In the early days of ''DungeonsAndDragons'' 3rd Edition, the front covers of ''Dungeon'' magazine advertised its pre-written adventures this way. "Mad Ranger Goes Wild for Funky Fungus!" "Reclusive Giants Raise Evil Chickens!" "I'm Carrying Tharizdun's Love Child!"
* The back cover of ''{{GURPS}} Illumnati'' is in the style of one of these, and the text makes frequent reference to the idea that 'everything you read in the tabloids is true'.
* Atlas Games' ''Pandemonium'' takes place in Tabloid World, where all of the strange stories in this type of tabloid are true.. PC's work as reporters for one of these papers, the Weekly Weird News.
* TSR's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Engine Amazing Engine]] setting ''Tabloid''
* ''Lurid Tales of Doom!'' for West End Games' ''Ghostbusters'' is the TropeNamer.

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* ''Alien Love Triangle Times'' in the ''[[SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max]]'' game "Situation: Comedy".

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* In ''ElGoonishShive'', it turns out that Moperville's local newspaper is sold as one of these in neighboring cities... which, considering the number of shape-shifting mutants, aliens, wizards, and anime-style martial artists that pop up around there, makes a lot of sense.

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* ''WeeklyWorldNews'' was a satirical newspaper that published this sort of story until it folded. Some people genuinely believed them (sometimes,) even though they often recycled stories; one standby every Presidential election year was "Space Alien Endorses [candidate for President]!" (complete with a photo of the alien and the candidate) and there were new doomsday predictions roughly every two weeks, often contradictory.
** A Weekly World News story: "20 Senators admit they are space aliens." Same ol', same ol', until the same story appeared in the Seattle Times a week or so later.
** Unfortunately, sometime around 2007 or so, they stopped pretending it was real news and made it much more obvious that it was all a big joke. It got a lot less fun to read then.
* ''The Daily Sport'' in the UK is made up of mostly pictures of [[PageThreeStunna topless ladies]] and this sort of "News", such as WorldWarII bombers being found on the moon.
** And when an astronomer protested that he couldn't see it: "WORLD WAR II BOMBER FOUND ON MOON VANISHES!"
* While ''The Sun'' is not the most erudite of newspapers in Britain it tends not to focus much on this sort of journalism, however one stand-out incident came from a March 1986 issue with the headline "FREDDIE STAR ATE MY HAMSTER!". This "story" has followed Freddie Star around since.
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