"Ramen, not cavier"

[lissa_dora]

The newspaper I read on lunch has an articlet (mini-article) labelled "young sdults face reality with ramen, not caviar" noting that "half of all colleg students graduate with debt averaging $12000" and "about half of college graduates move back home after graduattion..." and some other depressiong thing suggesting that the current 20somethings are

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[btoblake]

A very funny book I once read pointed out that what people want to read is not new-s but old-s, and I often find that to be true. It's easier to expand and confirm our understanding of the reality we already have.

Headlines like Dog Bites Man can satisfy readers more than Man Bites Dog.. they know what to do about a man eating dog.. tut tut that the police should do something about it, and enjoy warning each other about dangerous dogs.. Sooner or later, something is usually done, and the paper publishes that too.

I am actually suprised that the average debt is only 12,000, which is thoroughly wierd to me, lots of my friends picked up almost that much in a single year.

I have to admit, I actually do buy the paper when the headlines appeal to me, and I'd even consider subscribing. There's very little that compares with the usefulness of the Sunday paper.

Who knows, they may go back to the classic technique of attempting to get as many names in the paper as possible. Congrats, you showed up to the star wars movie at midnight, which is a good excuse to publish a quote from you, or even a photo, and now you and your mom are going to buy a copy of the paper for a bunch of your friends.. and someone esle is buying the paper for obituaries, birthday ads, wedding pics, letters to the editor..