• onslaught545@lemmy.zip
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    13 days ago

    Isn’t the Daily Star basically a tabloid, or am I thinking of something with a similar name?

    It’s also cute that right wing Christians think they’d be raptured since Jesus would be returning to, in part, punish the shit out of them.

    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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      13 days ago

      The Star is somewhere between The Sun (a Rupert Murdoch spec tabloid rag with a “publish first, verify sources later” approach) and The Sport (contrary to its name, is less about the development and performance of elite ball games, and more about substituting the journalism with as much softcore pornography as possible).

      Admittedly, the Star is highly entertaining - like the “nottheonion” comm in print form, with an approach more like a magazine than a newspaper. It’s usually a fraction cheaper than most of the major tabloids too.

    • Rimu@piefed.social
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      13 days ago

      Yes, and, if you were using piefed.social there would be a little red warning icon next to any post that links to the daily star, with a popup saying “Tabloid”.