Media Literacy Guide: Satire and Tabloids

Some news stories are not news at all but...SATIRE or TABLOIDS

SATIRE: 

1: a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn

2: trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly

Example: The Onion

TABLOID:

1: a newspaper whose pages, usually five columns wide, are about one-half the size of a standard-sized newspaper page.

2: a newspaper this size concentrating on sensational and lurid news, usually heavily illustrated.

3: a short form or version; condensation; synopsis; summary.

Example: The National Enquirer