tabloid — ONAD

tabloid /ˈtabˌloid, ˈtæbˌlɔɪd

▸ noun a newspaper having pages half the size of those of a standard newspaper, typically popular in style and dominated by headlines, photographs, and sensational stories:

[as modifier] the tabloid press.

▪ [as modifier] mainly North American sensational in a lurid or vulgar way:

they argued about who made what allegation on what tabloid TV show.

– ORIGIN late 19th century : from tablet + -oid. Originally the proprietary name of a medicine sold in tablets, the term came to denote any small medicinal tablet; the current sense reflects the notion of ‘concentrated, easily assimilable’.