I have had a lot of time to think lately, and over the weekend a question struck me – would I rather be Balki or Larry? No matter how much I tried to dismiss it, I couldn’t shake the question… Read More ›
Random Thoughts
Good Media Manners – The evils of channel-flipping during the holidays
Dear Good Media Manners, I have recently been spending the holidays with family and no one can ever decide what to watch on television. In the end, we end up flipping back and forth from one channel to the next… Read More ›
Good Media Manners – Using speakerphone in public
Dear Good Media Manners, I am hoping that you can settle a debate for me. I believe that a phone call is a phone call is a phone call. My boyfriend sees things differently. He doesn’t understand why, when I’m… Read More ›
Good Media Manners – Using a tablet in a restaurant
Dear GMM, Recently we were away, and at one of the restaurants at the hotel—upscale but not five-star—was a family of four including two pre-teen boys. The boys were sitting there watching a football game on a tablet, with the… Read More ›
Good Media Manners – Buying the seat next to you at the movies
Recently, The New York Times published an Ethicist article wherein someone asked if it was okay at a movie theater that sells reserved seats to buy the spot next to you so that no one sits in it. While the… Read More ›
Welcome to Good Media Manners
The world keeps changing, growing, altering. Things that were appropriate yesterday may not be appropriate today, and many are left with big questions about how they should act. Well, today I start a new column that aims to sort all… Read More ›
