Boston Metro

Lost somewhere on Route 84

JohnAKeith — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:22:53 +0000

Boston Metro (@metrobos) reporter Steve Annear (@steveannear) tweeted at around 1:00pm this afternoon:

This tops my list of crazy decisions. And I've made many. On a doubledecker bus in the storm en route to #Nyc and the tires are spinning.

This was his update, at 1:31am:

Have now officially been on a bus to #nyc from #boston for 12.5 hours with no food or water and an hour on the snowy roads to go.

Cannibalism will be forgiven.

Metro discovers world is full of germs

adamg — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:26:34 +0000

So spray everybody you see on the T with Lysol.

Metro doing its part to end tragic waste of white crayons

adamg — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:10:12 +0000

TootnScoot reports today's Metro has a reversi-crossword.

Metro does its best to dispute study on our regional brainpower

adamg — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:04:25 +0000

See if you can figure out the disconnect between the front-page headline and two of the three bullet points immediately below it:

Via alert Metro reader Stephanie, who notes the actual survey says we are brainiacs towering over mental midgets in places like New York.

Think you can write better than the Metro?

adamg — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:56:13 +0000

The Metro is hiring a reporter to report for the "18-34 city-centric upwardly mobile men and women" who read the paper:

... This is not an entry level job. Candidates should have a minimum of 2 years experience of news reporting at a daily newspaper and should have sources in Boston or the proven ability to develop them quickly. Because of the nature of Metro, specialized beat work will not be the norm. The ability to cover a wide range of subjects is crucial, while managing time properly to allow for both daily coverage and longer-term feature projects. ...

Gender bending at Boston Metro

adamg — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:20:17 +0000

Ah, what would we do without the Metro? Yesterday, they alerted West Roxbury to the new French pizzerie on Centre Street near LaGrange Street: Denois. Today, Dan Seitz reports they accompanied a short item about Tim Murray with a photo of Therese Murray.

Smash the church/state paradigm!

adamg — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:37:06 +0000

Does Boston Metro know about Boston MetroGuide, which is seeking to hire writers who will get paid only if they also sell ads to go with their "articles"?

... This is your chance to be the official blogger/commentator/voice of Boston on a new Metro Guide Website that is quickly growing in popularity. ...

The newspaper that thinks it's TMZ.com

adamg — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:48:42 +0000

That would, of course, be the Metro, which today determined that Tiger Woods's little mishap was the day's top news, which set off Marshall T. Spriggs:

... Since you seem to be rapidly becoming a Boston specific version of the TMZ website that you reference in your lead article, the only question left to me is whether I should even bother to pick up the Metro. ...

Metro: Service journalism at its finest

adamg — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:25:47 +0000

Boston's largest, most award-winningest newspaper has a handy tip for Beacon Hill parents on Halloween: "Wash any loose rat droppings from your kid's candy before ingesting."

Also alerts us that lots of college students live on Mission Hill and that drug users have been known to frequent Central Square.

Who actually voted the Metro 'Best Newspaper of the Year'?

adamg — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:12:10 +0000

The Weekly Dig reveals: Executives at agencies that buy ads in newspapers, who vote on things such as how eagerly a given newspaper bends over backwards for advertisers.

Oh, Metro, you're so reliably unreliable

adamg — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:19:13 +0000

Boston Metro gets hep to this whole idea of people using Twitter to broadcast the latest MBTAfail, but see if you can figure out what's wrong with this paragraph:

MBTA Transit Police Lt. Commander Robert Lenehan, who runs transit police Twitter page, posted a message last Thursday for riders to expect large crowds at North station due to a TD Garden event. He hopes to continue to learn about what riders want to hear about.

Well, aside from the missing "the" in there, that is. Yep, unless you happen to know that Lt. Commander Robert Lenehan is posting at MBTAPoliceTPSA5, you're never going to get to see his tweets.

Via Mike Schroll.

Metro's new half-owners Swedish as ever

adamg — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:53:03 +0000

The Herald reports the Swedish company that owned 51% of our ~~scrappy~~ omnipresent tabloid has sold its entire US operations to the guy who used to be its CEO, Pelle Törnberg. Like the other owner of the paper, Metro in the US was a money loser.

Go figure: Foreclosure-help ad in the Metro may not have been legit

adamg — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:50:05 +0000

The state Attorney General's office has gotten a temporary restraining order against a New York firm that allegedly used ads in the Metro to drum up business among homeowners facing foreclosure by promising legal services it couldn't deliver. Among other things, the company demanded $1,500 up front from prospective clients, which is illegal in Massachusetts and also, despite calling itself Loan Mods by Lawyers, it, in fact, employed no lawyers, the Attorney General's office reports, adding the Metro cooperated fully with state investigators.

Have you read the news today, oh boy?

adamg — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:34:54 +0000

Maria Varmazis captures a really sad recession paper in front of Pi Alley downtown.

Copyright Maria Varmazis.

Could anything stun Metro readers?

adamg — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:58:39 +0000

The Herald breathlessly reports on an incident at the Forest Hills T stop on Wednesday:

Scores of Metro readers were stunned when they picked up the free newspaper the other morning and discovered a frightening front page splashed with anti-Israel rantings.

Why no pictures of either the frightening front page (come on, we're Herald readers, we can take it!) or of stunned Metro readers lying prostrate at the bottom of the escalators like pigeons just given electric shocks?