Then boy does the Boston Metro have an unpaid intership for you!

Interns will be responsible for covering assignments as directed by the City Editor and by the reporters and will have the opportunity to pitch ideas for publication in the newspaper.

And don't worry: Knowledge of local geography is not a requirement.

Deb Geisler provides the latest proof that the Metro is not on speaking terms with English grammar.

Adam Reilly reports Boston Metro now needs an editor, what with Saul Williams suddenly no longer employed there (unclear if he left of his own volition). On the negative side, Reilly explains, the paper also doesn't have a publisher, its Swedish uberlords are trying to unload it and its New York Times underlords recently wrote down a big part of their investment.

That's what Boston Metro reports. Dan Kennedy is skeptical, wondering if maybe the report has something to do with the way the Globe screwed up a story about layoffs at its alleged sister paper (also click on that last link for some fun snark about BostonNow).

Adam Reilly has the scoop: The Swedes who mostly own the paper are considering selling their U.S. papers to the Examiner group, who would shut Metro and replace it with their own Boston Examiner - which already has a Web site (just not at bostonexaminer.com, which is owned by somebody else). No word on what the folks down in Times Square would do about the 49% of the paper they own.

Adam Reilly looks up the coverage by Boston's dailies (all four of 'em) and concludes you'd need to go elsewhere for coverage of today's city-council preliminaries in Allston/Brighton and Roxbury and state-rep race in East Boston.

He also finds it curious that neither paper is covering this week's trial of a man accused of killing two people in an Allston/Brighton apartment last January.

For election info:

I don't take the commuter rail in town every day, but when I do I've seen the same woman hawking the Metro at South Station for years. About this time last year I even saw her talking to candidate Chris Gabrieli on the platform one morning. Usually I saw her in the mornings on my way in. Tonight I saw her handing out free copies of the Herald on my way home at 5:10. Has the Herald stolen some of the competition's best talent?

Elias wishes to have a word with Boston Metro's copy editor after seeing a reference to Karl Marz in today's paper:

... trust me, you can't rely Microsoft word's spell-check ya gotta eyeball these things.

Should Patrick take the Metro or BostonNow?