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British tabloid newspaper published on Sundays by News Corp. It's a sister paper to The Sun.
The News of The World concentrates on the important news. C-list
celebrities, football, horoscopes, sex scandals and soft-porn. The News of The World has published a lot of
kiss and tell stories. Normally these stories are told in lurid detail and illustrated with photos of the woman concerned in her underwear. The News of The World has a gift for showing women in their underwear. They could print an article about Nixon opening relations with China and still somehow find a way to work such a photo in to the story.
The newspaper itself is very right-wing and has been criticised in the past for enouraging mob justice (as has it's sister paper The Sun). Their decision to print the names and photos of convicted
paedophiles brought condemnation since it was pretty obvious what was going to happen once these lists were published. Lynch mobs formed and people who had served their sentences and been released were harassed despite the fact that stastics have shown that sex-offenders typically have a far lower rate of recivisdism than most other serious crimes.
All in all, a low-grade gossip rag with a thinly veiled populist right-wing agenda.
