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The whole article feels so sleazy.

The age is a tabloid newspaper (as are all newspapers in Australia - even the broadsheet format ones)

That's not strictly fair. The Age online is absolute crap, but The Age in print is marginally better.

I do, however, think that the media in general in Australia is abhorrent when compared with other countries, though.

tabloid describes the format (as opposed to broadsheet).

The term is associated with trashy newspapers, but actually refers to the print size. So describing The Age as a tabloid is factually true.

If you want to drop your IQ a couple of points, swing past ninemsn.com sometime.

EDIT: I just re-read the parent, and is using 'tabloid' in the trashy sense. I'll leave the comment as a general knowledge point.

The Age is definitely a broadsheet in terms of print size.

My mistake in that case.