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Would you forgive me if I dropped everything and became a cheesemaker?
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If I May Quote 'Life of Brian'
When He said "Blessed are the cheesemakers", it's not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturer of dairy products.
Blessed be the wealthy cheesemakers
Personally, I'm going to take up candle-making. I plan to apprentice for nine years or until I can dip my wick straight.
People with lots of disposable income
Yes, the Globe does mention it takes several hundred thousand dollars to become a cheesemaker - at the end of the article, which, I see, proves its point that everybody in their 40s with careers is getting into cheesemaking through an exhaustive survey of, um, let's see, one cheesemaking school that has increased its enrollment from 28 to 40 and several cheesemaking former "careerists" in Vermont. Proof enough for me (note: it's actually an interesting article, but the Globe needs to stop framing stories like this like they represent revolutionary changes in society).
For a few moments, I thought I was reading The Onion
I started reading this online, since
I don't buy the Globe anymore...for
just this reason.
I got far enough into it to reach the
implied point that, just as soon as all
our readership cashes out its REAL ESTATE CAREERS
they BECOME CHEESEMAKERS in Vermont.
This is news? This is news in a major
metro market? This is on the front page?
Note to Brian McCrory and Marty Baron
and a distant New York Times ownership:
This is why your circulation numbers are
in a death spiral. You all may want to
consider leaving the "news" business and
take up, oh, maybe cheesemaking.
The Globe
I completely agree, but I'm not sure its a bad thing. The cheese maker story was a very good semi-local story, well written, and seemingly well investigated. But what is it doing on the front page? I think the answer is that the Globe is now unashamedly a Boston-only news paper. Maybe its a good thing, maybe its not, I don't know but there's no argument to be made that the Globe is even in the same universe as the Times or the Post. Moreover, I'm not sure that the people who really rely on the Globe for their news - middle class baby boomers - and subscribe to it in paper form want anything different. The more important question, if you ask me, is whether the Globe is a good Boston-only paper. It used to be that the Herald was a laughable local rag that teamsters read while loafing. I'm not so sure that the Herald couldn't give the Globe a run for its money now-adays if it spruced up its image a bit and dropped its baldly sensational headlines. The problem that the Globe now faces is that its local stories - most of what it publishes - aren't always well investigated and aren't always well written. By contrast, though I don't really like the Herald, I have to admit that they at least investigate their local stuff pretty well (and then pump it full of sensationalism and libel).
Whatever.......
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