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It's Wednesday December the 21 around 2:01AM and

The Good and Bad of Metro News

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Oh, and Metro paper buddies, you're not getting off that easy today. We're keeping a list of advertising covers you've done. One a week recently we see? Today's cover, brought to you by the folks at the Bank of Montreal, is hoping to promote some crackpot 100,000 Air Miles contest. This sort of thing brings the level of news in the city to a whole new level. I guess we should just thank somebody it wasnt a Telus bunny ad?

On the other hand, Metro tried to bury on page 7 (technically 5 if you count the ad cover on the front of course) a cheesecake lingerie photo of the girls from "Godiva's" - the set in Yaletown, shot in Burnaby restaurant/tv dramedy show. Now that's journalism right fellas. That was going to be the cover non? At any rate, the show may find some more viewers.

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Posted by: Ariadna

December 22, 2005 08:02 PM

Print media can have only so much advertising until it ceases to be a magazine/newspaper and is plain old ad-space. Wouldn't an ad on the cover take away Metro's right to be called a magazine?

Posted by: Jes Golbez

December 23, 2005 05:22 PM

It's a free daily. You get what you pay for.
I'm amazed they are still paying people to hand out these papers after 6-7 months.

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