Meaning of fish wrap | Babel Free

Definitions

A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose news reports are considered uninteresting or unreliable and whose editorial opinions are regarded with indifference or disapproval.

countable, derogatory, humorous, slang, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“By now, one would expect⟳ those of us in the daily fish⟳ wrap⟳ business to be inured to repeated attempts to declare⟳ the newspaper dead and begin⟳ shoveling dirt on its face⟳.”

“Various British papers have⟳ claimed to know⟳ her taste⟳ in breakfast-table reading (The Racing Post⟳, the English thoroughbred journal, is said to be among her daily fishwrap), and her stomach for trackside betting (she doesn't have⟳ one).”

“[T]he "New York Times Paradox" among right-leaning news outlets: When the New York Times reports something inconvenient, it's liberal fishwrap; when it reports something convenient, hey, it's the NEW YORK TIMES.”

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