Talk:Metro (British newspaper)

message: "Distribution"
The paper is distributed in Derby.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.234.52.34 (talk) 20:44, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I can remember a time when there were two free morning papers in Manchester. One of them was called the Manchester Metro but I can't remember the name of the second. At the time some radio advertisements for the the former claimed the latter was London based. Adzz 16:42, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've added information regarding the 'green' version of Metro International on the Tyne & Wear Metro around 1999 to the section. I'm glad someone else remembers the old green version! Will try and find a reference for it somewhere online. It definately did exist, they published a letter I wrote once! :) BNC85 (talk) 11:52, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

message: Full text of deleted criticism section:
Criticism and accusations of political bias and hidden advertising
Metro claims it is different from most other UK newspapers because it takes a determinedly independent line on political reporting. However this is highly disputed if one examines its daily content and considers that Metro is owned by the same media group as the Daily Mail, which has a strong fiscally conservative, right wing bias. Metro's size and format follows that of UK tabloid newspapers rather than broadsheets with extremely large headlines, large photos and relatively short articles. Metro's editors make very clear choices on which topics it will emphasize on, which information it considers news, and what will be omitted. Comparisons of Metro with tabloids and broadsheets published on the same day will almost always results in Metro's content and style being very similiar to the tabloid.
Often throughout the year, the front page of Metro will feature alarmist media stories on illegal immigration, asylum seekers, large photos of accused (but often not yet convicted) criminals of various non-white ethnic minorities and overt bemoaning of any price increases in goods or services it claims will affect large numbers of people. Space for almost all (non UK related) international news is often limited to half a page within the newspaper and these items themselves are shortened to only a few sentences, while celebrity gossip often covers numerous pages. Metro also has an obsession with over emphasizing the amount of small local violent crime in Britain with its continuous daily articles covering individual cases of Antisocial behaviour, violent assault and murders, which are often covered in the minutest detail. Despite these daily alarmist headlines, often upon closer anaylsis of the actual articles, the reader will discover that the crime itself occured months or even years ago, and the article is instead detailing court or legal proceedings which are in still in course.
In addition to this Metro has been accused of producing advertising disguised as news articles especially in conjunction with upcoming films or new websites. An example of this came with the release of the latest James Bond film Casino Royale in which the newspapers published numerous "news articles" and 2 page "news spreads" on spies, spying, and spy gadgets. Also, in November of 2007 a full page "news" article was dedicated to the pornographic website youporn.
Amorfati00 (talk) 10:53, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism section 

message: The Metro chooses to run a lot of stories that have clearly been re-worded from the Daily Mail including identical photographs to accompany the articles. To claim the Metro is centrist is false because it is clearly a right-wing paper.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.48.238 (talk) 13:24, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metro v Daily Mail 

message: I've deleted the claim of no political allegiance. The only source for this appears to be the Associated newspapers own claim of editorial independance, the same claim they make for the Daily Mail and Evening Standard. Mighty Antar (talk) 00:46, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Based on (fairly) regular casual reading over the last couple of years, it definitely does seem to me like a "Daily Mail Lite" - rather demotically right-wing and padded out with "celebrity" gossip. I'm frankly surprised at the high claimed ABC1 readership level. It's certainly worth what you pay for it... --Kay Dekker (talk) 02:49, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political alignment 

message: I happened to be looking for an answer to the question of who owned the metro and wiki seemed like an obvious choice but this info seemed to be missing.
As it happens I think the addition of this information would serve to answer and resolve questions/disputes about bias by pointing out in a neutral way who owns the paper. It's also impossible to argue that the information is irrelevant.
Metro is owned by DMG media, sources include the metro website http://metro.co.uk (in the footer) and the DMG site http://www.dmgmedia.co.uk/about-us (in the body of text). Note that on the DMG page where it discusses ownership of the brand it also relates ownership of some other well known titles.
Suggest creation of an "Ownership" section with a short piece of descriptive text citing the above links as evidence.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.193.225.89 (talk) 10:26, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest addition to the article 

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message: Not notable on its own, for lack of independent WP:SIGCOV, but there is some salvageable content in the article to place into the main Metro article. TheMagikCow (T) (C) 15:57, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Metro (website)]]