Don't Read Metro!

Metro, London Lite and thelondonpaper are eviscerated, lobotomised papers served up to vulnerable commuters, too weak to refuse. It is horrifying that literate people voluntarily read absolute pap simply because its free, would they eat MacDonalds twice a day every day just because it didn’t cost, knowing the effects it will have on the body… yes of course they would. The free sheets are having a Super Size Me effect on people’s minds ramming them full of celebrity tittle tattle, sports and world’s fattest cat type nonsense. Not to mention that all free sheets are churned out by the right wing press, two by the Mail Group and the other by Murdoch. Most people wouldn’t be seen dead with a Daily Mail but seem to brandish their Metro, along with the Styrofoam coffee cup, with pride.

For school children and people who don’t normally read the papers may fulfill a function and get people reading, for anyone else I suggest digesting Arthur Schopenhauer opinion that: “Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.” Meaning that sometimes thinking is preferable to reading and that one ought not to be terrified of being left along with one’s thoughts for twenty minutes, rather than reading about Britney’s latest knickerless exploits. Not only do the free sheets pollute the mind they fill the gutter with mountains of sodden copies, discarded by people who’ve been cornered by one of the ubiquitous street vendors.

Refuse the free sheet, embrace free thinking!