Possible Clues:

• Like some tabloids
• Worthless
• Go round tree that's meretricious
• Inferior, as writing
• Tacky tree sap outside
• It¿s awful to make an attempt to cover up a call for silence
• Shoddy or ganger
• Cheap, shoddy
• It's not worth much to attempt to get around having been fired
• ... but his rejected output shrinking and worthless