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'&curl=' + encodeURIComponent(confirmation_url) : "") + (oauth_finalize ? '&oauth_finalize=' + encodeURIComponent(oauth_finalize) : "") + (groupname ? '&groupname=' + groupname : "") + (video_id ? 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2 * progress * progress : -1 + (4 - 2 * progress) * progress; window.scrollTo(0, start * (1 - ease_in_out_quad)); if (elapsed_time < duration) { requestAnimationFrame(scroll); } else { window.scrollTo(0, 0); } } scroll(); } // FOLDER BUTTONS (unused) - declared to prevent console errors. function toggleAllFolders() {} function togglefolder(id) {} var device_type = get_device_type(); const mobile_menu_button = document.querySelector('.mobile-menu-toggle-button'); if (mobile_menu_button) { mobile_menu_button.addEventListener('click', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); const header = document.querySelector('header#main-header-bar'); if (header.classList.contains('mobile-menu-active')) { header.classList.remove('mobile-menu-active'); } else { header.classList.add('mobile-menu-active'); } }); } // tracking height for multiple folders to insert ads var global_pHeight = 0; // MODAL - FOLDER - SPOILER BUTTONS document.body.addEventListener('click', function(e) { // WATCH / FOLLOW BUTTONS const target = e.target.closest('.watch-button'); const loggedInElement = document.getElementById('logged_in'); const loggedIn = loggedInElement ? loggedInElement.value : null; //special code for the desktop-on-mobile-toggle cookie link if (e.target.closest('#desktop-on-mobile-toggle > a')) { e.preventDefault(); var body_class = "desktop-on-mobile"; var userPrefs = document.getElementById('user-prefs'); if (userPrefs.classList.contains(body_class)) { cookies.remove(body_class); } else { cookies.create(body_class, 'true', 300, '/'); } location.reload(); } // Display toggle buttons for user preferences if (e.target.closest('.display-toggles > li')) { var toggle = e.target; if(toggle.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'li') toggle = toggle.children[0]; var body_class = ''; var pref = ''; var val = 0; // SIDEBAR AND MOBILE MENU OPTIONS if (toggle.classList.contains('wide-load')) { body_class = "wide-load"; } else if (toggle.classList.contains('sticky-header')) { body_class = "sticky-header"; } else if (toggle.classList.contains('night-vision')) { body_class = "night-vision"; } else if (toggle.classList.contains('show-spoilers')) { body_class = "show-spoilers"; } else if (toggle.classList.contains('tvtropes-editor-on')) { body_class = "tvtropes-editor-on"; } // PROFILE PAGE OPTIONS else if (toggle.classList.contains('folders-open')) { body_class = "folders-open"; } else if (toggle.classList.contains('wysiwyg-toggle')) { body_class = "wysiwyg-toggle"; } else if (toggle.classList.contains('mono-font')) { body_class = "mono-font"; } else if (toggle.classList.contains('lefthand-sidebar')) { body_class = "lefthand-sidebar"; } else if (toggle.classList.contains('highlight-links')) { body_class = "highlight-links"; } else if (toggle.classList.contains('forum-gingerbread')) { body_class = "forum-gingerbread"; } else if (toggle.classList.contains('shared-avatars')) { body_class = "shared-avatars"; pref = 'accept_share'; val = toggle.classList.contains('active') ? 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'drop' : 'add'; handleWatchItem(addOrDrop, data[0], data[1], target); // Discussion page } else if (target.getAttribute('data-watch-discussion-info')) { var data = target.dataset.watchDiscussionInfo.split(','); if (!data.length) return; var addOrDrop = target.classList.contains('watching') || target.parentElement.classList.contains('watching') ? 'drop' : 'add'; var pageType = 'Discussion'; handleWatchItem(addOrDrop, data[0], data[1], target, pageType); // Forum thread } else if (target.getAttribute('data-watch-thread-id')) { var threadId = target.getAttribute('data-watch-thread-id'); var url = target.classList.contains('watching') || target.parentElement.classList.contains('watching') ? '/pmwiki/thread_watch_drop.php?thread=' : '/pmwiki/setthreadwatch.php?d_id='; url += threadId; handleWatchThread(url, target); } } // Check for kill modal button click if (e.target.classList.contains('kill-modal-button')) { e.preventDefault(); kill_modal(); } // Check for data-click-toggle without data-click-toggle-target const targetWithoutToggleTarget = e.target.closest('*[data-click-toggle]:not([data-click-toggle-target])'); if (targetWithoutToggleTarget) { e.preventDefault(); const toggleClass = targetWithoutToggleTarget.getAttribute('data-click-toggle'); targetWithoutToggleTarget.classList.toggle(toggleClass); } // Check for data-click-toggle with data-click-toggle-target const targetWithToggleTarget = e.target.closest('*[data-click-toggle][data-click-toggle-target]:not(#signup-form-toggles a)'); if (targetWithToggleTarget) { e.preventDefault(); // Check if the target contains fetch_articles in the onclick attribute const hasFetchArticles = targetWithToggleTarget.getAttribute('onclick') && targetWithToggleTarget.getAttribute('onclick').includes('fetch_articles'); // If fetch_articles is not in the onclick attribute, stop propagation if (!hasFetchArticles) { e.stopPropagation(); } const toggleTargetId = targetWithToggleTarget.getAttribute('data-click-toggle-target'); const toggleClass = targetWithToggleTarget.getAttribute('data-click-toggle'); const isExclusive = targetWithToggleTarget.getAttribute('data-click-toggle-exclusive') === 'true'; if (isExclusive) { // Exclusive mode: toggle target and clear siblings const toggleTarget = document.getElementById(toggleTargetId); if (toggleTarget) { // Remove the toggle class from all siblings const siblings = Array.from(toggleTarget.parentNode.children); for (let sibling of siblings) { if (sibling !== toggleTarget) { sibling.classList.remove(toggleClass); } } // Add the toggle class to the target element toggleTarget.classList.add(toggleClass); } } else { // Non-exclusive mode: toggle targets normally if (toggleTargetId.indexOf(',') > -1) { const targets = toggleTargetId.split(","); targets.forEach(t => { document.querySelectorAll('#' + t).forEach(el => { el.classList.toggle(toggleClass); }); }); } else { document.querySelectorAll('#' + toggleTargetId).forEach(el => { el.classList.toggle(toggleClass); }); } } } // initiate all modals const modalTarget = e.target.closest('*[data-modal-target]'); if(modalTarget) { if (!modalTarget) { return; // Skip, if no target found with the specified attribute } // Get modal details let modal = modalTarget.getAttribute('data-modal-target'); let msg = modalTarget.getAttribute('data-modal-vars') ? modalTarget.getAttribute('data-modal-vars') : modalTarget.getAttribute('data-modal-confirmation-message'); let url = modalTarget.getAttribute('data-modal-confirmation-url'); // convert to json if possible try { var obj = JSON.parse(msg); if (obj && typeof obj === "object") { msg = obj; } } catch (e) { } // Skip modal and go straight to the link if (modal === "allow") return; // Don't allow link since we are showing a modal instead e.preventDefault(); // Add support for alert tags if (modal.substring(0, 6) === "alert-") { // Message array const msgArr = { "alert-banned": "Your permissions for this area have been suspended. 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That's an <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Slurpasaur' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Slurpasaur' data-format='W1t7e1NsdXJwYXNhdXJ9fSBpZ3VhbmFdXQ=='>iguana</a>, <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComicallyMissingThePoint' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComicallyMissingThePoint' data-format='W1tDb21pY2FsbHlNaXNzaW5nVGhlUG9pbnQgbm90IGEgZGlub3NhdXJdXQ=='>not a dinosaur</a>.</div> </p><p><div class='indent'><em>You think that publications like </em>The Sun<em> make everything up. I used to think that, too, before I checked into a story the </em>Sun<em> published a few months ago headlined "GIANT FLYING CAT TERRIFIES STATES." Remember? The article that featured the actual artist's depiction of an enormous cat? Flying? With wings? Well, I did some checking, and you will be interested to learn that every single word in the headline is true except for "GIANT," "FLYING," "TERRIFIES," and "STATES."</em> <div class='indent'>— <strong><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DaveBarry' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DaveBarry' data-format='Q3JlYXRvci9EYXZlQmFycnk='>Dave Barry</a></strong>, "Mutant Fleas Terrorize Midwest" </div></div></p><p>Sometimes newspapers of a more questionable level of veracity publish news that is clearly bunk, in the case of <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlienAbduction' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlienAbduction' data-format='e3tBbGllbiBBYmR1Y3Rpb259fXM='>Alien Abductions</a>, 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鈥攖oast 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. </p><p>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鈥攐r sometimes these stories are bizarre even for the setting. </p><p>Not necessarily related to <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoomyDoomsOfDoom' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoomyDoomsOfDoom' data-format='RG9vbXlEb29tc09mRG9vbQ=='>Doomy Dooms of Doom</a>, although it might overlap with <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IfItBleedsItLeads' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IfItBleedsItLeads' data-format='SWZJdEJsZWVkc0l0TGVhZHM='>If It Bleeds, It Leads</a> or <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MediaScaremongering' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MediaScaremongering' data-format='TWVkaWFTY2FyZW1vbmdlcmluZw=='>Media Scaremongering</a>. A <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClickbaitGag' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClickbaitGag' data-format='Q2xpY2tiYWl0R2Fn'>Clickbait Gag</a> is sometimes a comedic depiction of online examples. <hr data-format='——' /> <h2>Examples</h2> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="toggleAllFolders();">    open/close all folders  </div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder0');">    Comic Books </div><div id="folder0" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/DylanDog' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/DylanDog' data-format='Q29taWNCb29rL0R5bGFuRG9n'>Dylan Dog</a></em>: 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. </li><li> In <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/LikeAVelvetGloveCastInIron' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/LikeAVelvetGloveCastInIron' data-format='Q29taWNCb29rL0xpa2VBVmVsdmV0R2xvdmVDYXN0SW5Jcm9u'>Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron</a></em>, 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. </li><li> <em>National Whisper</em> in <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Comicbook/Superman' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Comicbook/Superman' data-format='Q29taWNib29rL3t7U3VwZXJtYW59fQ=='>Superman</a></em> comics is the Metropolis counterpart to the <em>National Enquirer</em>. </li><li> In <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016' data-format='Q29taWNCb29rL1RoZUxlZ2VuZE9mV29uZGVyV29tYW4yMDE2'>The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016)</a></em> Perry White makes a cameo as a young journalist trying to maintain his journalistic integrity while working at that world's version of the <em>National Whisper</em>. 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 <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NaziZombies' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NaziZombies' data-format='TmF6aVpvbWJpZXM='>Nazi Zombies</a> which are entirely factual but don't seem any different from the made up tales. </li><li> The DC version of <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Comicbook/PeterCannonThunderbolt' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Comicbook/PeterCannonThunderbolt' data-format='Q29taWNib29rL1BldGVyQ2Fubm9uVGh1bmRlcmJvbHQ='>Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt</a></em> featured Anne-Marie Brogan, who worked for a British tabloid called the <em>Daily Globe</em>. Like most British tabloids they offered a mix of genuine, if sensationalist, reporting (her stories) and trash (most of the rest of it). </li><li> One issue of <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures' data-format='Q29taWNCb29rL1RoZUJhdG1hbkFkdmVudHVyZXM='>The Batman Adventures</a></em> (the tie-in comic to <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries' data-format='V2VzdGVybkFuaW1hdGlvbi9CYXRtYW5UaGVBbmltYXRlZFNlcmllcw=='>Batman: The Animated Series</a></em>) had a local Gotham tabloid reporting that Batman fired Robin. Batman initially thinks it'll blow over in a week, but <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HilarityEnsues' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HilarityEnsues' data-format='SGlsYXJpdHlFbnN1ZXM='>Hilarity Ensues</a> when dozens of overeager teenagers start "auditioning" to be the next Robin. </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheGoon' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheGoon' data-format='Q29taWNCb29rL1RoZUdvb24='>The Goon</a></em> is heavily influenced by these in its story titles and a few metatextual gags. </li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder1');">    Comic Strips </div><div id="folder1" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes' data-format='Q29taWNTdHJpcC9DYWx2aW5BbmRIb2JiZXM='>Calvin and Hobbes</a></em>: <ul ><li> Calvin occasionally poses as a reporter of sensationalistic stories based on shameless fabrications or ludicrous exaggerations. He introduces one show-and-tell presentation: "<span class='esc-seq' title='non-wikiword'>UFOs</span>! 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!" </li><li> Calvin selects one of these stories for an assignment where he's supposed to read and explain a newspaper article in class. <div class='indent'><strong>Hobbes:</strong> "Space alien weds two-headed Elvis clone."<br data-format="\\" /><strong>Calvin:</strong> Actually, there's not much to explain. </div></li></ul></li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder2');">    Fan Works </div><div id="folder2" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse' data-format='RmFuZmljL05vdFRoZUludGVuZGVkVXNlWmFudGV0c3VrZW5SZXZlcnNl'>Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse)</a></em>: 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. <div class='indent'><strong>Hijiri:</strong> They've been rumours among the occult groups that she's been <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Persona4' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Persona4' data-format='W1tWaWRlb0dhbWUvUGVyc29uYTQgdGhyb3duIGludG8gYSB0ZWxldmlzaW9uXV0='>thrown into a television</a>. Don't look at me like that. You have to take everything they say with a grain of salt. They talk about things like ghosts hanging out in apartment buildings,<span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note06q81');"><sup>note </sup></span><span id="note06q81" class="inlinefolder" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note06q81');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;">One of the characters in this fic</span> <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow' data-format='W1tWaWRlb0dhbWUvQ2FzdGxldmFuaWFEYXduT2ZTb3Jyb3cgc29tZW9uZSBraWxsaW5nIEJpZ2Zvb3QgaW4gUnVzc2lhLF1d'>someone killing Bigfoot in Russia,</a> <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney' data-format='W1tWaWRlb0dhbWUvU2hpbk1lZ2FtaVRlbnNlaVN0cmFuZ2VKb3VybmV5IHNlY3JldCBtaWxpdGFyeSBvcGVyYXRpb25zIHRvIGZpZ2h0IGRlbW9ucyBpbiBBbnRhcmN0aWNhLF1d'>secret military operations to fight demons in Antarctica,</a> <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Castlevania' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Castlevania' data-format='W1tGcmFuY2hpc2Uve3tDYXN0bGV2YW5pYX19IGhpZGRlbiBtb25zdGVyIGh1bnRlciB2aWxsYWdlcyBpbiBSb21hbmlhLF1d'>hidden monster hunter villages in Romania,</a> <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Persona2' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Persona2' data-format='W1tWaWRlb0dhbWUvUGVyc29uYTIgZmx5aW5nIGNpdGllcyxdXQ=='>flying cities,</a> shop owners selling guns,<span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note13e80');"><sup>note </sup></span><span id="note13e80" class="inlinefolder" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note13e80');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;">Hammer in this fic</span> <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GiantRobot' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GiantRobot' data-format='W1tHaWFudFJvYm90IGdpYW50IG1ldGFsIGdvbGVtcyxdXQ=='>giant metal golems,</a> <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Reincarnation' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Reincarnation' data-format='W1t7e1JlaW5jYXJuYXRpb259fSBDb3VudCBEcmFjdWxhIHJldHVybmluZyxdXQ=='>Count Dracula returning,</a> end of the world stuff...you know, things like that. Every once in a while, they turn out to be true. But you never know just by hearing them. There are things in this world that are too absurd to be made up.<br data-format="\\" /><strong>Soma:</strong> (thinking) <em>There's no way he could have noticed me flinch.</em> </div></li><li> Parodied in <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace' data-format='RmFuZmljL1BsYW43T2Y5RnJvbU91dGVyU3BhY2U='>Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space</a></em> where Buster Kincaid's newsplastic, <em>The Interplanetary Telepress</em> has headlines like <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheGiantGilaMonster' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheGiantGilaMonster' data-format='W1tGaWxtL1RoZUdpYW50R2lsYU1vbnN0ZXIgR2lhbnQgR2lsYSBNb25zdGVyXV0='>Giant Gila Monster</a> Does <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome' data-format='W1tTdXJwcmlzaW5nbHlSZWFsaXN0aWNPdXRjb21lIEFic29sdXRlbHkgTm90aGluZ11d'>Absolutely Nothing</a></em>. </li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder3');">    Film </div><div id="folder3" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> In <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Airplane' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Airplane' data-format='RmlsbS97e0FpcnBsYW5lfX0='>Airplane!</a></em>, 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". </li><li> In <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/MenInBlack' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/MenInBlack' data-format='RmlsbS9NZW5JbkJsYWNr'>Men in Black</a></em>, Agent K says this sort of news is actually very trustworthy when it comes to tracking aliens. <div class='indent'><strong>Agent J:</strong> <em>These</em> are the hot sheets?<br data-format="\\" /><strong>Agent K:</strong> Best investigative reporting on the planet. But go ahead, read the New York Times if you want, they get lucky sometimes. </div></li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer' data-format='RmlsbS9Tb0lNYXJyaWVkQW5BeGVNdXJkZXJlcg=='>So I Married an Axe Murderer</a></em>: the entire premise of the film is triggered by a sensational story in the <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews' data-format='TWFnYXppbmUvV2Vla2x5V29ybGROZXdz'>Weekly World News</a>, which turns out to be true. </li><li> <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanTelevision' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanTelevision' data-format='T2xkZXJUaGFuVGVsZXZpc2lvbg=='>Older Than Television</a>: The 1931 WB film <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/FiveStarFinal' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/FiveStarFinal' data-format='RmlsbS9GaXZlU3RhckZpbmFs'>Five Star Final</a></em>, where an editor (Edward G. Robinson) is forced to rehash a 20-year-old scandal to increase sales. </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheNightFlier' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheNightFlier' data-format='RmlsbS9UaGVOaWdodEZsaWVy'>The Night Flier</a></em>: Richard Dees works for a tabloid magazine that specializes in things like UFO sightings and satanic rituals to draw in readers.  </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SexAndTheSingleGirl' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SexAndTheSingleGirl' data-format='RmlsbS9TZXhBbmRUaGVTaW5nbGVHaXJs'>Sex and the Single Girl</a></em> is about a reporter (<a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TonyCurtis' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TonyCurtis' data-format='Q3JlYXRvci9Ub255Q3VydGlz'>Tony Curtis</a>) 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 (<a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/NatalieWood' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/NatalieWood' data-format='Q3JlYXRvci9OYXRhbGllV29vZA=='>Natalie Wood</a>) who wrote a book about the emancipation of single women. </li><li> The lead characters of <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Transylvania65000' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Transylvania65000' data-format='RmlsbS9UcmFuc3lsdmFuaWE2NTAwMA=='>Transylvania 6-5000</a></em>, 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 <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrankensteinMonster' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrankensteinMonster' data-format='RnJhbmtlbnN0ZWluTW9uc3Rlcg=='>Frankenstein Monster</a>. </li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder4');">    Literature </div><div id="folder4" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> In the <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HarryPotter' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HarryPotter' data-format='TGl0ZXJhdHVyZS9IYXJyeVBvdHRlcg=='>Harry Potter</a></em> novels, <em>The Quibbler</em> 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 <em>The Quibbler</em> to report You-Know-Who's return, because no mainstream paper will report it. </li><li> The competing paper in the <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Discworld' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Discworld' data-format='TGl0ZXJhdHVyZS97e0Rpc2N3b3JsZH19'>Discworld</a></em> novel <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheTruth' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheTruth' data-format='TGl0ZXJhdHVyZS9UaGVUcnV0aA=='>The Truth</a></em>, 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". </li><li> Andrew Looney's novel <em>The Empty City</em> features an elderly couple who are avid watchers of television and readers of the <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews' data-format='TWFnYXppbmUvV2Vla2x5V29ybGROZXdz'>Weekly World News</a>; 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. </li><li> The Midwestern Arcane in <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheDresdenFiles' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheDresdenFiles' data-format='TGl0ZXJhdHVyZS9UaGVEcmVzZGVuRmlsZXM='>The Dresden Files</a></em>. However, it turns out that much of the stuff they report is actually true. </li><li> The "National World Weekly" in <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/GoodOmens' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/GoodOmens' data-format='TGl0ZXJhdHVyZS9Hb29kT21lbnM='>Good Omens</a></em> 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 <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElvisLives' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElvisLives' data-format='W1tFbHZpc0xpdmVzIHR1cm5zIG91dCB0byBiZSB0cnVlXV0='>turns out to be true</a>. </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/RedDragon' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/RedDragon' data-format='TGl0ZXJhdHVyZS9SZWREcmFnb24='>Red Dragon</a></em> has a slimy tabloid journalist named Freddy Lounds, who runs a paper called <em>The Tattler</em>, reporting on the FBI investigation of the <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SerialKiller' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SerialKiller' data-format='U2VyaWFsS2lsbGVy'>Serial Killer</a> dubbed "The Tooth Fairy". He becomes a serious obstacle in the investigation before the agents eventually realize that the killer reads <em>The Tattler</em>, and they feed Lounds a false story to try to lure the killer into making a mistake. <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile" >It doesn't work, but it does end up getting Lounds killed.</span> </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheStrangerTimes' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheStrangerTimes' data-format='TGl0ZXJhdHVyZS9UaGVTdHJhbmdlclRpbWVz'>The Stranger Times</a></em> is dedicated to publishing news about all kinds of weird phenomena, ranging from demonically possessed rockstars to a random woman trying to marry the M62. One of their reporters specializes in alien stories. </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/CiaphasCain' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/CiaphasCain' data-format='TGl0ZXJhdHVyZS9DaWFwaGFzQ2Fpbg=='>Ciaphas Cain</a></em>: <em>The Last Ditch</em> has a Tyranid-infested planet's newspapers used to inform the civilian populace of the danger and indicate they shouldn't concentrate in the capital. Meanwhile, a paper called The Solar starts with <div class='indent'>THOUSANDS FLEE RAVENING XENOS </div></li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder5');">    Live-Action TV </div><div id="folder5" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> Subverting this was the entire point of <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheChronicle' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheChronicle' data-format='U2VyaWVzL1RoZUNocm9uaWNsZQ=='>The Chronicle</a></em>. Man goes to work at a tabloid, only to discover that all of their stories are true. </li><li> The <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews' data-format='TWFnYXppbmUvV2Vla2x5V29ybGROZXdz'>Weekly World News</a> has been mentioned in a few episodes of <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Supernatural' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Supernatural' data-format='U2VyaWVzL3t7U3VwZXJuYXR1cmFsfX0='>Supernatural</a></em> including being used as inspiration by a magical trickster. </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer' data-format='U2VyaWVzL0J1ZmZ5VGhlVmFtcGlyZVNsYXllcg=='>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</a></em>. Buffy is trying to read a <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TomeOfEldritchLore' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TomeOfEldritchLore' data-format='VG9tZU9mRWxkcml0Y2hMb3Jl'>Tome of Eldritch Lore</a> ("A child shall be born of man and goat and have two heads...") and quips that it's like reading <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers' data-format='W1tVc2VmdWxOb3Rlcy9Ccml0aXNoTmV3c3BhcGVycyBUaGUgU3VuXV0='>The Sun</a></em>. </li><li> In the Australian comedy <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Bligh' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Bligh' data-format='U2VyaWVzL3t7QmxpZ2h9fQ=='>Bligh</a></em> (set in <span class='esc-seq' title='non-wikiword'>18th</span> century New South Wales, but <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnachronismStew' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnachronismStew' data-format='W1tBbmFjaHJvbmlzbVN0ZXcgcGFyb2R5aW5nIGN1cnJlbnQgZXZlbnRzXV0='>parodying current events</a>), Governor Bligh finds his <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SitcomArchNemesis' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SitcomArchNemesis' data-format='U2l0Y29tQXJjaE5lbWVzaXM='>Sitcom Arch-Nemesis</a> John Macarthur has opened a newspaper with such articles like "Bearded Baby Born In Byron Bay". </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Hannibal' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Hannibal' data-format='U2VyaWVzL3t7SGFubmliYWx9fQ=='>Hannibal</a></em> features <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenderFlip' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenderFlip' data-format='W1tHZW5kZXJGbGlwIEZyZWRkaWVdXQ=='>Freddie</a> Lounds and her website Tattlecrimes. </li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder6');">    Music </div><div id="folder6" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> The <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/WeirdAlYankovic' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/WeirdAlYankovic' data-format='TXVzaWMvV2VpcmRBbFlhbmtvdmlj'>"Weird Al" Yankovic</a> song <a class='urllink' href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVR1dxxKc4Y'>"Midnight Star"<img src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" height="12" width="12" style="border:none;" /></a> is about a tabloid magazine like this. </li><li> <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Eminem' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Eminem' data-format='TXVzaWMve3tFbWluZW19fQ=='>Eminem</a> has mocked some of the stupider things tabloids have written about him, ranging from <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNewRockAndRoll' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNewRockAndRoll' data-format='W1tUaGVOZXdSb2NrQW5kUm9sbCBjbGFpbWluZyByZXNwb25zaWJpbGl0eSBmb3Igc2Nob29sIHNob290aW5ncywgaG9taWNpZGVzIGFuZCBzdWljaWRlcyBibGFtZWQgb24gdGhlIGNvcnJ1cHRpbmcgaW5mbHVlbmNlIG9mIGhpcyBtdXNpY11d'>claiming responsibility for school shootings, homicides and suicides blamed on the corrupting influence of his music</a>, to laughing at a tabloid story claiming he'd died in a car crash ("<em>shows what they know — shit, if I did, it'd be a trailer, not a car</em>"). </li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder7');">    Radio </div><div id="folder7" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> There's a round on <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue' data-format='UmFkaW8vSW1Tb3JyeUlIYXZlbnRBQ2x1ZQ=='>I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue</a></em> called <em>Historical Headlines</em>, 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 <em>The Sport</em> (see Real Life section). Such as a headline after the completion of Stonehenge: "The <em>Sport</em> — "Giant set of alien false teeth ate my virgin"." </li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder8');">    Tabletop Games </div><div id="folder8" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> <a class='urllink' href='https://web.archive.org/web/20070318125548/http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/?doc=fr_spinayarn2005'>Enjoy<img src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" height="12" width="12" style="border:none;" /></a> the <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms' data-format='VGFibGV0b3BHYW1lL0ZvcmdvdHRlblJlYWxtcw=='>Forgotten Realms</a></em> tabloid. Titles like "Bane vs. Cyric — Winner Take All!!!!" and "Dire Pandas From Kara-Tur Invade the Unapproachable East!" — and much worse. <ul ><li> In the early days of <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons' data-format='VGFibGV0b3BHYW1lL0R1bmdlb25zQW5kRHJhZ29ucw=='>Dungeons & Dragons</a></em> 3rd Edition, the front covers of <em>Dungeon</em> 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!" </li></ul></li><li> The back cover of <em><a class='twikilink disambiglink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/GURPS' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/GURPS' data-format='VGFibGV0b3BHYW1lL3t7R1VSUFN9fQ=='>GURPS</a> Illuminati</em> 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'. </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/Pandemonium1993' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/Pandemonium1993' data-format='VGFibGV0b3BHYW1lL3t7UGFuZGVtb25pdW18MTk5M319'>Pandemonium</a>: Adventures in Tabloid World</em> takes place in a world where all of the strange stories in this type of tabloid are true. <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayerCharacter' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayerCharacter' data-format='e3tQbGF5ZXIgQ2hhcmFjdGVyfX1z'>Player Characters</a> work as reporters for one of these papers, the Weekly Weird News, investigating things like werewolf secret societies and alien espionage. </li><li> <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TSR' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TSR' data-format='Q3JlYXRvci97e1RTUn19'>TSR</a>'s <a class='urllink' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Engine'>Amazing Engine<img src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" height="12" width="12" style="border:none;" /></a> setting <em>Tabloid!</em> </li><li> <em>Lurid Tales of Doom!</em> for West End Games' <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Ghostbusters' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Ghostbusters' data-format='RnJhbmNoaXNlL3t7R2hvc3RidXN0ZXJzfX0='>Ghostbusters</a></em> role-playing game is the <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropeNamer' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropeNamer' data-format='VHJvcGVOYW1lcg=='>Trope Namer</a>. 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. </li><li> There's a <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MediaNotes/Fate' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MediaNotes/Fate' data-format='W1tNZWRpYU5vdGVzL3t7RmF0ZX19IEZhdGUgQ29yZV1d'>Fate Core</a></em> module book called <em><a class='urllink' href='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/251127/Weird-World-News-o-A-World-of-Adventure-for-Fate-Core#:~:text=Weird%20World%20News%20requires%20Fate,focused%20on%20classic%20WWN%20hijinks'>Weird World News<img src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" height="12" width="12" style="border:none;" /></a></em>, a pastiche of the groovy mystery-solving cartoons of <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSeventies' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSeventies' data-format='VGhlU2V2ZW50aWVz'>The '70s</a> (like <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou' data-format='V2VzdGVybkFuaW1hdGlvbi9TY29vYnlEb29XaGVyZUFyZVlvdQ=='>Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!</a></em>, <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Jabberjaw' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Jabberjaw' data-format='V2VzdGVybkFuaW1hdGlvbi97e0phYmJlcmphd319'>Jabberjaw</a></em>, and <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Fangface' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Fangface' data-format='V2VzdGVybkFuaW1hdGlvbi97e0ZhbmdmYWNlfX0='>Fangface</a></em>), with the main characters a gang of journalists for such a publication, and a <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScoobyDooHoax' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScoobyDooHoax' data-format='W1tTY29vYnlEb29Ib2F4IHByZXR0eSBoaWdoIGNoYW5jZSBvZiB0aGUgc3VwZXJuYXR1cmFsIHN0dWZmIHR1cm5pbmcgb3V0IHRvIGJlIGZha2VdXQ=='>pretty high chance of the supernatural stuff turning out to be fake</a>. </li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder9');">    Theatre </div><div id="folder9" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> In <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/TheBibleTheCompleteWordOfGodAbridged' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/TheBibleTheCompleteWordOfGodAbridged' data-format='VGhlYXRyZS9UaGVCaWJsZVRoZUNvbXBsZXRlV29yZE9mR29kQWJyaWRnZWQ='>The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)</a></em>, one of the Wise Men says that they're following <em>The Star</em>, an issue of which he produces showing the headline: "Virgin Mary has space alien's baby in Bethlehem." </li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder10');">    Video Games </div><div id="folder10" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ANNOMutationem' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ANNOMutationem' data-format='VmlkZW9HYW1lL0FOTk9NdXRhdGlvbmVt'>ANNO: Mutationem</a></em>: One of the various <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShopFodder' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShopFodder' data-format='U2hvcEZvZGRlcg=='>Shop Fodder</a> is the <em>Media Monthly: Awareness and the Future</em>, a magazine officially banned in Skopp City for being notorious in publishing misinformation, conspiracy theories, and fake news. </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice' data-format='W1tWaWRlb0dhbWUvU2FtQW5kTWF4RnJlZWxhbmNlUG9saWNlIFNhbSAmYW1wOyBNYXggU2F2ZSB0aGUgV29ybGRdXQ=='>Sam & Max Save the World</a></em>: Sybil opens a tabloid called <em>Alien Love Triangle Times</em> 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 <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile" >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 <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LittleGreenMen' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LittleGreenMen' data-format='TGl0dGxlR3JlZW5NZW4='>Little Green Men</a> from space.</span> </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/RockStarAteMyHamster' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/RockStarAteMyHamster' data-format='VmlkZW9HYW1lL1JvY2tTdGFyQXRlTXlIYW1zdGVy'>Rock Star Ate My Hamster</a></em> parodies <em>The Sun</em> (which actually held a contest involving the game) with <em>The Stun</em>, 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 <em>The Stun</em>, and includes the "exclusive" story "ALIENS STOLE MY VOLVO!", a story which is illustrated by a <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlyingSaucer' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlyingSaucer' data-format='Rmx5aW5nU2F1Y2Vy'>Flying Saucer</a> crudely composited onto a car photo and transparently based on the alibi of a <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DrunkDriver' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DrunkDriver' data-format='RHJ1bmtEcml2ZXI='>Drunk Driver</a>. </li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder11');">    Web Comics </div><div id="folder11" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> In <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/ElGoonishShive' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/ElGoonishShive' data-format='V2ViY29taWMvRWxHb29uaXNoU2hpdmU='>El Goonish Shive</a></em>, neighboring cities <a class='urllink' href='http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=974'>treat Moperville's newspaper<img src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" height="12" width="12" style="border:none;" /></a> 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. </li><li> <em>Scandal Sheet!</em> is set at one of these, with the twist that some of the stories in the paper are real. "The best place to hide a needle isn't a haystack but a big pile of other needles." </li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder12');">    Western Animation </div><div id="folder12" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> On <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Daria' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Daria' data-format='V2VzdGVybkFuaW1hdGlvbi97e0RhcmlhfX0='>Daria</a></em>, the title character is a frequent viewer of <em>Sick Sad World</em>, 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. </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/InvaderZim' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/InvaderZim' data-format='V2VzdGVybkFuaW1hdGlvbi9JbnZhZGVyWmlt'>Invader Zim</a></em> has <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment' data-format='W1tEZXBhcnRtZW50T2ZSZWR1bmRhbmN5RGVwYXJ0bWVudCBNeXN0ZXJpb3VzIE15c3RlcmllcyBvZiBTdHJhbmdlIE15c3Rlcmllc11d'>Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mysteries</a></em>, <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParanormalInvestigation' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParanormalInvestigation' data-format='W1tQYXJhbm9ybWFsSW52ZXN0aWdhdGlvbiBEaWJdXQ=='>Dib</a>'s favorite <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowWithinAShow' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowWithinAShow' data-format='W1tTaG93V2l0aGluQVNob3cgc2hvd11d'>show</a>. However, over the course of the series it has been shown to report on supernatural phenomena both fake (Chickenfoot) and real (spell drives). </li><li> On <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo' data-format='V2VzdGVybkFuaW1hdGlvbi9BUHVwTmFtZWRTY29vYnlEb28='>A Pup Named Scooby-Doo</a></em>, Freddy is a fan of a ridiculous tabloid called the National Exaggerator. </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TimeSquad' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TimeSquad' data-format='V2VzdGVybkFuaW1hdGlvbi9UaW1lU3F1YWQ='>Time Squad</a></em>: 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. </li></ul></div> </p><p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder13');">    Real Life </div><div id="folder13" class="folder" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"> <ul ><li> <em>The National Enquirer</em> is the most known example: During the war it supported <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThoseWackyNazis' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThoseWackyNazis' data-format='VGhvc2VXYWNreU5hemlz'>Those Wacky Nazis</a>. Then it was owned by the mafia and became a crime-obsessed rag focusing on particularly hideous crimes. Now it is more known for making up celebrity gossip. </li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews' data-format='TWFnYXppbmUvV2Vla2x5V29ybGROZXdz'>Weekly World News</a></em> 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. <ul ><li> They occasionally printed stories from local area newspapers, things that had really happened but fit their sensationalistic bent. </li></ul></li><li> <em>The Daily Sport</em> in the UK is made up of mostly pictures of <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PageThreeStunna' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PageThreeStunna' data-format='W1tQYWdlVGhyZWVTdHVubmEgdG9wbGVzcyBsYWRpZXNdXQ=='>topless ladies</a> and this sort of "News", such as <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/WorldWarII' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/WorldWarII' data-format='VXNlZnVsTm90ZXMvV29ybGRXYXJJSQ=='>World War II</a> bombers being found on the moon. <ul ><li> And when an astronomer protested that he couldn't see it: "WORLD WAR II BOMBER FOUND ON MOON VANISHES!" </li></ul></li><li> While <em>The Sun</em> 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. <ul ><li> Wanna know why even now, 23 years after the day, Liverpool area newsstands still refuse to carry <em>The Sun</em>? Because in an exemplarily distasteful combination of this trope and <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DudeNotFunny' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DudeNotFunny' data-format='RHVkZU5vdEZ1bm55'>Dude, Not Funny!</a>, it not only blamed the <a class='urllink' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster'>Hillsborough Disaster<img src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" height="12" width="12" style="border:none;" /></a> on <em>Liverpool</em> fans, but also <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlatantLies' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlatantLies' data-format='W1tCbGF0YW50TGllcyBpbnZlbnRlZCBmcm9tIHRoZSB3aG9sZSBjbG90aF1d'>invented from the whole cloth</a> the lurid stories of them <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralEventHorizon' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralEventHorizon' data-format='W1tNb3JhbEV2ZW50SG9yaXpvbiBhdHRhY2tpbmcgYW5kIGFidXNpbmcgdGhlIHZpY3RpbXMgYW5kIHJlc2N1ZSB3b3JrZXJzXV0='>attacking and abusing the victims and rescue workers</a>. True, the fans in question never were the particularly peaceful bunch, and 1989 was the year when the football hooliganism in the UK was at its peak, but <em>this</em> time the fans <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisBlamed' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisBlamed' data-format='W1tNaXNCbGFtZWQgd2VyZW4mIzAzOTt0XV0='>weren't</a></em> <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisBlamed' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisBlamed' data-format='W1tNaXNCbGFtZWQgdGhlIG9uZXMgdG8gYmxhbWVdXQ=='>the ones to blame</a>. And to add insult to injury Kelvin <span class='esc-seq' title='non-wikiword'>MacKenzie</span>, the editor responsible for the story, never apologized. Well, he did, but only under pressure <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SummonBiggerFish' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SummonBiggerFish' data-format='W1tTdW1tb25CaWdnZXJGaXNoIGZyb20gUnVwZXJ0IE11cmRvY2hdXQ=='>from Rupert Murdoch</a>, and retracted the apology after he left the paper. Kelvin <span class='esc-seq' title='non-wikiword'>MacKenzie</span> made an extremely sordid <a class='urllink' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_MacKenzie#Editor_of_The_Sun'>"career"<img src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" height="12" width="12" style="border:none;" /></a> out of this trope in general. </li></ul></li><li> <em><a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers' data-format='W1tVc2VmdWxOb3Rlcy9Ccml0aXNoTmV3c3BhcGVycyBUaGUgRGFpbHkgTWFpbF1d'>The Daily Mail</a></em> has never been shy about getting in on this act. Their best moment was an online report on "the sinister cult of emo" that combined this with <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNewRockAndRoll' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNewRockAndRoll' data-format='VGhlTmV3Um9ja0FuZFJvbGw='>The New Rock & Roll</a> in a masterful display of ignorance. It came complete with fabricated "satanic religious beliefs" of emos ripped from <em>song lyrics</em> ("the <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/MyChemicalRomance' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/MyChemicalRomance' data-format='W1tNdXNpYy9NeUNoZW1pY2FsUm9tYW5jZSAmIzAzOTtibGFjayBwYXJhZGUmIzAzOTtdXQ=='>'black parade'</a> is a place where all emos believe they will go when they die") and the assertion that wrist-slitting was an initiation ritual into the cult. Like the <em>National Enquirer</em>, they were also strident and enthusiastic supporters of Fascism in the 1930s, and various side-by-side comparisons of their coverage of Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS and German Jews fleeing the Nazis suggest that their editorial line hasn't really changed much. The Mail Online is even worse, largely based on the peculiar beliefs of the proprieter's wife, to the extent that the hard-copy Mail has denied they're the same publication. </li><li> <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers' data-format='VXNlZnVsTm90ZXMvQW1lcmljYW5OZXdzcGFwZXJz'>American Newspapers</a> in general were known for this during <a class='twikilink' href='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheRoaringTwenties' title='/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheRoaringTwenties' data-format='VGhlUm9hcmluZ1R3ZW50aWVz'>The Roaring '20s</a>, most of them featuring huge "scare" headlines (IN FULL CAPS! AND WITH EXCLAMATION SIGNS!). But <em>The New York Evening Graphic</em>, which ran between 1924 and 1932, was unique among them for its emphasis on sex-related stories, and was also known for making up stories (such as the one with Valentino meeting Caruso at <em>Heaven</em><span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note2bxt8');"><sup>note </sup></span><span id="note2bxt8" class="inlinefolder" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note2bxt8');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;">Yup, they <em>did</em> publish something like that</span>). <ul ><li> One of the <em>Graphic</em>'s most infamous practices was to have actors making a scene for the camera, their faces being replaced with those from people on the news, most notably during a notorious divorce case in 1927. </li></ul></li><li> Decades earlier (1880s-1890s), William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer engaged in a battle to see which paper was the most sensationalistic one: While they did publish some fake stories, their papers also exposed the ills of the American society of the late 19th century. 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