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I remember how we used to go to offices and huddle around discussing the one TV show we’d all watched the previous night, like
Mad Men. There was no water cooler per se, but apparently not too many years before then all non-work-related office chatter was required by law to take place around one, and so we would still call these water-cooler shows.
We’ve lost our offices, and our water-cooler shows too; but reclaimed a water cooler of sorts.
It’s called Slack or (particularly outside the U.S.) WhatsApp.
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But the notion of a water-cooler show was killed by the Balkanized streaming entertainment universe, where we each get to play at being our own Jeff Zuckers, setting an idealized primetime schedule of Must-See TV for a demographic of one (or two, in happy relationships).
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Hopes that President Joe Biden and his team could exert a calming, decisive influence over getting children back in classrooms are now getting tested.
After nearly a year of massive disruptions to schools from the pandemic and a Trump administration response heavy on pressure and at times bluster
, Biden promised a swift, coordinated, and supportive response. But that pledge has run smack into the decentralized, politically hazardous specifics of actually reopening schools.
There’s no shortage of scrutiny as to whether the administration’s newly released technical guidance for reopening schools has struck a proper balance, put enough priority on key issues, or represented a major shift from what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under Trump had already recommended. Critics who see the new guidance as too restrictive have drawn a straight line from heated reopening disputes involving teachers’ unions in several cities to Biden’s chummy relation