shitsheet

English

Etymology

From shit +‎ sheet.

Noun

shitsheet (plural shitsheets)

  1. (vulgar) A low-quality newspaper.
    • 1985, “Shock Reports”, in Razzle, volume 3, number 15, page 12:
      From time to time, you see the shitsheets basing some unlikely story on "facts" gleaned from a statistical questionnaire. You know the stuff: "Women prefer homosexual men — shocking report!"
    • 1996, Marcus Salisbury, “Days of Whine + Noserings”, in Yobbopolitain‎[1], number 8, page 6:
      Every year […] we get the usual array of well-dressed, well-meaning types promising to represent the silent majority (and whose team name is eternally followed on Leftie shitsheets by "Young Liberals")
    • 2010 May 2, Charlie Booker, “Election 2010: Which leader's public persona do you prefer?”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      Two-faced contempt is the basic mode of operation for many newspapers: mindwarping shitsheets filled with selective reporting and audacious bias.
    • 2023 June 26, Bernard Keane, “Vale Simon Crean — a study in what happens to those who tell the truth”, in Crikey‎[3]:
      But at the time, the smearing and demonisation of Crean was astonishing. Downer suggested he was an appeaser who was “talking like Saddam Hussein”. Andrew Bolt called Crean “Chamberlain”. The Australian and other News Corp shitsheets ran editorial after editorial, op-ed after op-ed, vilifying Crean — who according to The Australian would forever be “associated with the appeasement of tyranny” — and Labor.
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