It’s a minor news event with a couple of ethics lesson, but as usual, the media’s focus is on the wrong one.

New York’s U.S.  Senators, Gillibrand and Shumer, were talking away on their cell phones before take-off.  The flight attendants announced, as they have been doing on flights since before Cher’s first retirement tour, that it was time to ditch the electronic devices and turn off the cell phones. The senators ignored the instructions, and kept talking anyway, because, you know, their work is So Very Important. Continue reading →