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Sometimes newspapers of a more questionable level of veracity publish news that is clearly bunk, in the case of Alien Abductions, yetis being found and women giving birth to animals. 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 or are just questionable coincidences. The news industry calls this type of "news" 'Man Bites Dog', a name that seems rather more mundane than 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 Doomy Dooms of Doom, although it might overlap with If It Bleeds, It Leads or Media Scaremongering. A Clickbait Gag is sometimes a comedic depiction of online examples. Examples |
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Parodied in Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space where Buster Kincaid's newsplastic, The Interplanetary Telepress has headlines like Giant Gila Monster Does Absolutely Nothing. | |
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In The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), one of the Wise Men says that they're following The Star, an issue of which he produces showing the headline: "Virgin Mary has space alien's baby in Bethlehem." | |
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Subverting this was the entire point of The Chronicle. Man goes to work at a tabloid, only to discover that all of their stories are true. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: One of the various Shop Fodder is the Media Monthly: Awareness and the Future, a magazine officially banned in Skopp City for being notorious in publishing misinformation, conspiracy theories, and fake news. | |
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In Airplane!, there's a scene of several spinning papers with headlines reporting the doomed flight. Then there's the National Inquirer, whose headline reads "BOY TRAPPED IN REFRIGERATOR EATS OWN FOOT". | |
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Hannibal features Freddie Lounds and her website Tattlecrimes. | |
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In the Harry Potter novels, 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. In a subversion, Harry and his friends use The Quibbler to report You-Know-Who's return, because no mainstream paper will report it. | |
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Time Squad: In "Where The Buffalo Bill Roams", Bill's homemade tabloid magazine, The Daily Informer, contains his own self-centered theories, which he keeps to himself. | |
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One issue of The Batman Adventures (the tie-in comic to Batman: The Animated Series) had a local Gotham tabloid reporting that Batman fired Robin. Batman initially thinks it'll blow over in a week, but Hilarity Ensues when dozens of overeager teenagers start "auditioning" to be the next Robin. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin occasionally poses as a reporter of sensationalistic stories based on shameless fabrications or ludicrous exaggerations. He introduces one show-and-tell presentation: "UFOs! Are they real?? Have they landed in our towns and neighborhoods?" In another strip, he wants to create a newspaper to report on household events such as his mom preparing a fish dinner: "KNIFE WIELDING MOTHER HACKS ICHTHYOID!" Calvin selects one of these stories for an assignment where he's supposed to read and explain a newspaper article in class. |
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The Midwestern Arcane in The Dresden Files. However, it turns out that much of the stuff they report is actually true. | |
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Dylan Dog: The National Inside Eye, a tabloid which publishes gems such as an interview with a man who was kidnapped by a Venusian vampire. Geraldine Rowling, a friend and on-and-off lover of Dylan, works there and always tries to interview him, to his great chagrin. | |
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Pandemonium: Adventures in Tabloid World takes place in a world where all of the strange stories in this type of tabloid are true. PCs work as reporters for one of these papers, the Weekly Weird News, investigating things like werewolf secret societies and alien espionage. | |
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Sex and the Single Girl is about a reporter (Tony Curtis) working for a magazine the boss of which is proud to have turned it from respectable publication to filthy tabloid (which boosted its sales as a result). Their most recent target of slander is a female psychologist (Natalie Wood) who wrote a book about the emancipation of single women. | |
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The competing paper in the Discworld novel The Truth, The Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, publishes these sort of articles, most notably "Woman Gives Birth To Cobra." The Ankh Morpork Times, on the other hand, eventually manages to print an article with the headline, "Dog Bites Man". | |
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There's a round on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue called Historical Headlines, about how a newspaper headline might look after a certain historical event. It usually draws on the perspectives of different English newspapers for comedy, and there's usually at least one joke about The Sport (see Real Life section). Such as a headline after the completion of Stonehenge: "The Sport — "Giant set of alien false teeth ate my virgin"." | |
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National Whisper in Superman comics is the Metropolis counterpart to the National Enquirer. | |
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Rock Star Ate My Hamster parodies The Sun (which actually held a contest involving the game) with The Stun, a sleazy tabloid which serves up shocking and frequently implausible headlines, several of which follow the formula "ROCK STAR ATE MY (noun)!" The game's manual is packaged as an issue of The Stun, and includes the "exclusive" story "ALIENS STOLE MY VOLVO!", a story which is illustrated by a Flying Saucer crudely composited onto a car photo and transparently based on the alibi of a Drunk Driver. | |
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In the early days of Dungeons & Dragons 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!" | |
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Red Dragon has a slimy tabloid journalist named Freddy Lounds, who runs a paper called The Tattler, reporting on the FBI investigation of the Serial Killer dubbed "The Tooth Fairy". He becomes a serious obstacle in the investigation before the agents eventually realize that the killer reads The Tattler, and they feed Lounds a false story to try to lure the killer into making a mistake. It doesn't work, but it does end up getting Lounds killed. | |
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In The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016) Perry White makes a cameo as a young journalist trying to maintain his journalistic integrity while working at that world's version of the National Whisper. It doesn't help that mixed in with the fantastical unsubstantiated stories the paper publishes about aliens and such Perry is publishing stories about a magic user creating Nazi Zombies which are entirely factual but don't seem any different from the made up tales. | |
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So I Married an Axe Murderer: the entire premise of the film is triggered by a sensational story in the Weekly World News, which turns out to be true. | |
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Weekly World News 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. They occasionally printed stories from local area newspapers, things that had really happened but fit their sensationalistic bent. |
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On A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Freddy is a fan of a ridiculous tabloid called the National Exaggerator. | |
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On Daria, the title character is a frequent viewer of Sick Sad World, which features everything from the trashy (a severely disabled man supposedly sleeping with three members of the royal family) to the absurd (an orca who's a lawyer) to the outright supernatural (zombies). One of the tie-in books features "Stringer Guidelines" from the show, which basically reveal that they'll take anything. | |
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The Goon is heavily influenced by these in its story titles and a few metatextual gags. | |
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The "National World Weekly" in Good Omens where Scarlet works briefly as a war reporter. Apart from her reports, which are factually correct, but (from the paper's perspective) dull, and only notable because she's always the first one on the scene, their output mostly consists of Elvis sightings and Jesus's face being found on things. One of their stories turns out to be true. | |
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Lurid Tales of Doom! for West End Games' Ghostbusters role-playing game is the Trope Namer. As part of a publicity stunt for their parent corporation, the players' Ghostbusters are hired as consultants for a reporting crew from the titular trashy tabloid, to verify if a number of bizarre stories sent to it are genuinely supernatural. | |
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Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): Jyoji Hijiri, who writes for an occult magazine, sprouts quite a few stories of this kind that are heard in his profession, and as it happens, they're all completely true. | |
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Invader Zim has Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mysteries, Dib's favorite show. However, over the course of the series it has been shown to report on supernatural phenomena both fake (Chickenfoot) and real (spell drives). | |
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The Night Flier: Richard Dees works for a tabloid magazine that specializes in things like UFO sightings and satanic rituals to draw in readers. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, neighboring cities treat Moperville's newspaper as though it was a tabloid of this style. However, its strange stories of goo monsters attacking local schools and the like are all completely true. It's just that no one believes them. | |
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In Men in Black, Agent K says this sort of news is actually very trustworthy when it comes to tracking aliens. | |
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Sam & Max Save the World: Sybil opens a tabloid called Alien Love Triangle Times in episode 2, "Situation: Comedy". Sam and Max just happen to need proof of being involved in a juicy scandal to get onto Myra Stump's talk show as guests, so they get Hugh Bliss to show off his powers of "Prismatology" by turning green, then take a photo with him and give it to Sybil as "proof" they're flirting with Little Green Men from space. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy is trying to read a Tome of Eldritch Lore ("A child shall be born of man and goat and have two heads...") and quips that it's like reading The Sun. | |
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The back cover of GURPS Illuminati 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'. | |
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In Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, 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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The lead characters of Transylvania 6-5000, Jack and Gil, write for one of these publications. The former notably wants to write real journalism but as he complains to his editor in the opening scene any attempts of his to do so are inevitably twisted into this trope. The plot gets going when they are sent to Transylvania to investigate claims of a sighting of the Frankenstein Monster. | |
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