They just can't help themselves. Today's Globe has a front page story on the rise and fall of Shreve, Crump and Low.

...[W]hat most people didn't know was that Shreve's, Boston's grand dame of jewelers, had recently fired its chief executive and laid off more than a dozen employees...

Shocking.

If there's a reason most people didn't know that, it's because it just doesn't matter to most people, including that single mother from East Boston. (Those dozen laid off employees are never mentioned again in the story. But then again the article isn't about them --it's about Shreve's.)