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The newspaper that thinks it's TMZ.com
By adamg on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 9:48am
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. ...
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a) What's wrong with TMZ?
a) What's wrong with TMZ? It's a great outlet that broke Michael Jackson's death, among other relevant scoops.
b) "There are wars and an economic meltdown, so don't write about anything else!" is a curmudgeonly cliche, not good news sense. Tiger Woods has always been, and now again is, a focal point for America's discussions of race and class. This is certainly a newsworthy subject.
c) Contrast with other outlets that *did* have top-lined story about the war, specifically Obama's Afghanistan plan. Was repeating that political jibberish any more illuminating than a Tiger Woods story? No; far less, in fact.
uh, hello
Umm, hello, it's the Metro. Do you think they're going to get any readership by writing the same things the Globe and NYT write about? It's a light/poppish/entertainment paper designed for casual reading on the train - they're not going for any pulitzers.
Wasn't it front-paged at the Herald too?
What does that make them, the dead tree equivalent of Perezhilton.com?
It's overpriced
I don't read the Metro as I contend it's overpriced.