Why Cathleen Black Was the Wrong Choice to Head New York City's Schools
As usual, the press and the complaining hordes are focusing on the wrong issues. Everyone assumes that Cathleen Black, who starts her job next week as New York City Schools Chancellor, is a fine choice from a management perspective, but what's lacking from her resume are any educational credentials. I challenge that. What the New York City school system needs is bold and imaginative thinking that breaks out of the calcified structures that have imprisoned it and its students for decades. Say what you will about Joel Klein, who has held the job since 2002, but the fact is that 40 percent of ...
Googling Patients: Should Psychiatrists Research Cases Online?
When Sigmund Freud's upscale patients trundled up to his parlor at Bergstrasse 19 in Vienna, one thing they didn't need to worry about was whether their shrink had checked out their Facebook page, read their latest blog rant, or Google-mapped their house and looked up its value on Zillow. But apparently, you do. In a world where physician Googling has become the norm, a surprising, even shocking number of psychiatrists are Googling their patients. Our digital lives are colliding with the doctor/patient relationship – and carrying risky consequences. That is one of the conclusions of a ...
I Don't Want to Fly the Uninspected Skies
It's been a rough week for the airline industry. And an anxiety-provoking one for all those who fly. On Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration slapped American Eagle (owned by the parent of American Airlines) with a $2.9 million penalty for allegedly not maintaining landing gear doors on four regional jets. More than 1,100 flights were involved. A day later, the Department of Transportation jumped in with its own report. The Chicago Tribune wrote that "Federal inspectors failed to detect a troubling decline in the maintenance and upkeep of American Airlines aircraft in recent ...
Did the Supreme Court Just Save Newspapers?
The Supreme Court's decision Thursday striking down limits on campaign spending by corporations, which was split along ideological lines, will change the political and media landscape in profound ways that transcend ideology. Unless Chuck Schumer and others find a way to legislate around this, an explosion of advertising and other instruments of persuasion will soon erupt from every corner. In the future, political races will not just be about two or more candidates slugging it out; the messaging landscape will be flooded by a torrent of proxy and surrogate advertising, funded by those who ...
Pro-Gay Marriage Ads Outclass the Opposition in Maine
In Maine – where they're voting Tuesday on a ballot initiative that will determine the future of same-sex marriage – something stunning has happened.I just spent some time watching the commercials that are hogging the airwaves, and guess what? It's the advocates of gay marriage, those who want to leave the current law firmly in place, who are the media maestros. And it's the conservatives who haven't found their messaging groove. The media debate centers around this stark ballot language: "Do you want to reject the new law that lets same-sex couples marry and allows individuals and ...
The Smart President Has a Brain Problem
Special interests, lobbyists, politics as usual, partisan spectacles. President Obama reels off the familiar rogues' gallery of enemies to health care reform in every appearance he makes. But his biggest threat – and one that his recent media marathon pushes right up against – is none of those.It's smaller, deadlier, smarter and yet more primitive: the human brain. ...
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