Dear GMM, I know that it’s been a while since you last responded to any letters, but I’m desperately hoping you can help me, I’m in dire straits. You see, I was at a friend’s place recently and they had… Read More ›
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Good Media Manners – Movie Theater Etiquette Revisited
Forgive me if this is something of a retread, there are things in this world which upset me to no end. I can’t imagine a better forum for discussing them when they relate to this blog’s overall theme (media). I… Read More ›
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 – Scary Movie Strategies
Dear Good Media Manners, The next few weeks find my children home from school due to the holidays and us finding ways to entertain them. One of our favorite ways to do this is by watching holiday films with them… 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 ›
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