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Red tops
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Tabloid journalism.
Red tops
The term "red tops" refers to British tabloids with red mastheads, such as The Sun, the Daily Star, the Daily Mirror, News of the World, and the Daily Record. Red top publications may report on politics and international news, but tend to focus primarily on celebrity gossip and sensationalism. Red tops publish short stories with simple language and typically use more pictures than other newspapers. These are distinguished from the UK's middle-market newspapers, which have a similar size but more news content, which are known as the "black tops".