Free Subway Rag Now Literally Destroying America

When we talk about the dangers of the degradation of newspapers, and the rise of “journalism products,” such as the execrable Metro free subway rags, this is what we mean. (Here is the text of the State of the Union, in case you were too busy playing videogames and having a life last night.) It’s not like the State of the Union is much more than political theater, sure, but next-level cynicism does some serious eroding of a citizen’s ability to think and respond constructively. Lazy advertising-vehicle “news” products engineered by demonic Swedes and thrown together by a warren of garbage-crunchers and distributed to harried subway commuters are actively undermining of democracy. (It’s not all bad news: at least on the inside of the paper, they’re still performing some journalism, such as their recently fairly substantial look at the NYPD’s “issues.”)