I read the metro every day. I don’t know why I do it, the paper only makes me angry. I must do it to myself as some sort of punishment, much like the way I look at the Daily Mail online and sit there silently shaking with anger at the stupid racist homophobic xenophobic arrogant c words that I just cant believe even exist never mind make a living out of twisting every news story to encourage their evil views. But with the metro I only get annoyed at their stupidity so I find I can read it on my journey to work without ruining my day. Also, its free.
Today marks their stupidest STUPIDEST “news story” ever. I accept it when they dedicate whole pages to opinion presented as fact, I ignore it when they let that gobsh*te Ross McDonagh loose on a full page article to attempt to pass off puns and sarcastic remarks as news but I CANNOT overlook an article with the caption “A new survey shows that smoking 20 cigarettes a day can cost you €3000 a year”
They had to commission a SURVEY to get some monkey to multiply 365 by €8?? Are they fucking kidding me??
you present a good reason why newspapers are struggling so much
that reason being their readers are smarter than their writers? well, not the daily mail readers, they’re either deranged lunatics themselves or reading it to annoy themselves, i hope i fall in the latter category.
latter means second, right?
Ouch! That was way harsh, Tai
BTW, newspapers don’t normally commission surveys, they just report on them
reporting on a survey that does nothing more than multiply one number by another is probably more stupid than carrying out the survey in the first place.
giving me the news is one thing, i dont need statements from captain obvious to be fully informed.