fish-wrap

For most readers, the daily news is a perishable product of limited value that is here one minute and fish-wrap the next.

Please pay us for our news — please? » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

I just wish that they would admit somewhere in the fish-wrap of a paper that they are nothing more than a colluding arm of the DNC.

"'It’s still a pig,' he said to loud applause," says Jeff Zeleny of the NYT, featuring Obama's defense of the Lipsticked Pig remark. Ann Althouse 2008

The Accidental Presbyterian: Christmas fish-wrap skip to main

Christmas fish-wrap David Barnes 2008

With all the great papers available online, why would anyone subscribe to a daily fish-wrap & birdcage liner? ...

The Herald Newspaper 2004

Or rather, mind: perhaps I am being waspish, some crabbed academic soul demanding strict accuracy and clarity of thought and expression in what is, after all, fish-wrap opining.

The Inverse Square Blog Tom 2010

Quite a switch for the local fish-wrap (which I gave up on years ago)!

Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2010

If the media types could/would simply copy and paste your Sea Ice News into their rags, their publications might be worth more than fish-wrap.

Watts Up With That? Anthony Watts 2010

If the media types could/would simply copy and paste your Sea Ice News into their rags, their publications might be worth more than fish-wrap.

Watts Up With That? Anthony Watts 2010

Either way, the band director tells the fish-wrap that they just don't want to bring any negative publicity to the inaugural.

RightMichigan.com - 2009

Clembot on 04 / 23 / 2009, 01: 58 AM Even though Now is embarrassingly wrong on this one, I would still say this article is a great improvement over Now's typical journalistic standard, which lies somewhere between fish-wrap and toilet paper.

NOW Magazine 2009