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You’d never know it from the giggles and the blustering “ohhhh’s” and “ahhh’s” you hear in this video, but what we see is the White House Press Corps getting schooled by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs for not turning off their cellphones. Cellphones are becoming increasingly distracting within the classroom, as more and more teenagers are carrying around mobile phones these days. But, you’d think they’d leave the high-school banter and irreverence for social/professional etiquette back in, well, high school.
It’s easy to turn off a cellphone, perhaps even easier to put it on “vibrate.” But, it seems the journalists in the White House Press Corps just didn’t view the day’s press briefing as serious enough to silence their handsets. Still, it makes for a good laugh. Especially when Gibbs goes all substitute-teacher on a clueless journalists cellphone.
[MediaBistro via: EngadgetMobile]
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