Metro Herald

In these recessionary times, what’s not to love about a free newspaper?! Hence I love the Metro. You get it on the way to work and if you have to take the bus or the Dart reading it is a great way to pass the time. All the articles are short, concise and informative and you can get through the whole paper in record time really. I love the celeb gossip section — sets me up for the day!

You’d be a fool not to love the Metro. It’s like a newspaper written for twelve year old girls. As opposed to page three, they have adorable pictures of adorable rodents like Meercats and Pandas doing adorable things like poppong out of a cupcake or mummifying themmselves in pink ribbons on a bed of sunflowers. Instead of real news, they have entertainment news about heart-​throbs Chase Crawford and Zac Efron. They also do some sport. Which isn’t really in keeping with the twelve year old girl thing, but ya can’t win ‘em all.
But this over-​simplified news is actually a stroke of genius, because the Metro is distributed during the commuting rush of about 8am, when ones brain is still defrosting and you can’t handle a decision more complicated than blueberry or chocolate muffin for breakfast.
So bring on a kitten falling into a paddling pool of melted chocolate, because it’s far too early to deal with real news.

I don’t care how badly written it is, nor how tabloid-​esque it is. Gratis negates intellectual snobbery. It’s got all the main news stories of the day, both national and international. Yes it concentrates on the sublime, ridiculous and downright sensationalist. But it does contain enough fact and interest to make it worthwhile. The ubiquity of the people who hand it out can be annoying at times, but at the same time, without them, there would be no metro. And they always give you enough celebrity gossip to keep you in juicy titbits for the day. Can’t really complain about that now can you?!

Metro is a free newspaper targeted at morning commuters. It contains bite-​sized national and international news, along with local entertainment reviews, travel and weather.
Metro is the largest and fastest growing international newspaper in the world and publishes 84 daily editions in 23 countries around the world. Metro is read by more than 23.1 million readers in over 100 major cities across Europe, North and South America and Asia every day!

The Metro newspaper makes every commute a little more enjoyable. The happiest people in the train or on the bus are those who have something to read. Instead of just staring out the window at the same old scene, reading helps pass the time.
Metro is designed to give you all the important news in one commute. Given out free at most transportation stations, its readers can get all their sports, entertainment and city news in one go.
Although most of the pieces are fluff and poorly written, the paper still remains popular with urbanites. After all, you can’t knock something that’s free!