gutter press 
noun (the gutter press) chiefly British
Reporters or newspapers engaging in sensational journalism, especially accounts of the private lives of public figures: the kind of place that the gutter press likes to describe as a love nest...
- He gave a short bitter press conference and blamed the gutter press for his downfall.
- He was never an outstanding player, never one to generate much headlines in the tabloid gutter press, but what he did, he did outstandingly.
- The success of the gutter press is offputting for many of those candidates possessing the most desirable of political attributes.