Funny or Die has a so-true-its-funny video of a press conference where Press Secretary Robert Gibbs takes a cell phone from a reporter because it interrupted the press conference for the third time.
You can see in the video, other reports texting while Gibbs removes the phone.
“I made the determination, that the illumination of the sound was distracting to the briefing,” as the Press Secretary to the President of the United States.
Waiting for other people to answer their phones during a meeting is a waste of time for the people in the meeting. Don’t you think?
Gibbs is laughing on the outside and handled the situation well. What do you do when a cell phone is used in an inappropriate situation?
At the Palm Pre VIP Party, there were people touching cell phones while Jerry Seinfeld talked about people who thumb their phones during converstations…..