One of the topics The Breakroom gangs weighs in on is a new study that says adults spend just as much time looking at screens as their teenagers.

One of the topics The Breakroom gangs weighs in on is a new study that says adults spend just as much time looking at screens as their teenagers. / flickr

The Breakroom gang joins host Celeste Headlee to weigh in on the week's news. The panel includes Tomika Depriest (Marketing and Communications Strategist), Sam Burnham (Blogger, All the Biscuits in Georgia), Ed Sohn (Global Director, Legal Managed Services, Thomson Reuters), and Roxanne Donovan (Psychology Professor, Kennesaw State University).

 

 BREAKROOM TOPICS:

1) The U.S. Department of Education wants all schools to cut out corporal punishment. Some schools do this as a form of punishment. There are 22 states that allow the use of corporal punishment, including Georgia. Should it be banned?

2) A new study says adults spend just as much time looking at screens as their teenagers. This comes from the group Common Sense, which focuses on child development in the digital age. So, how much time do you think you spend looking at screens every day?

3) New research from AAA shows that if you get only five-to-six hours of sleep a night, you are twice as likely to be in a car accident. One in five accidents involves a drowsy driver. Going by that measure, how often do you think you drive drowsy?

4) Researchers at the University of Georgia say our social media use may cause us to be more narcissistic. The study says the large number of updates, online friends and followers, and frequent selfie postings can lead someone to a more more extroverted form of narcissism. Has using social media made you more of a narcissist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwAaXi1UiIw
 

5) Donald Trump recently tweeted that millions people voted illegally, costing him the popular vote. PolitiFact rated that statement as “pants on fire” meaning it’s false. How concerned are you about the truthfulness of politicians? 

6) By next year, it will no longer be legal to smoke in public housing. The biggest impact will hit New York, where 400,000 people live in public housing. Do government subsidies empower the government to dictate lifestyle choices?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTfbszw3ofc&t=11s

7) For generations, we have all known Santa to be an older white gentleman with rosy cheeks, a jelly belly, and a billowing beard. But is that the only face of Santa out there? Megyn Kelly seemed to think so in this 2013 Fox New broadcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XYlJqf4dLI&t

Larry Jefferson, an Army veteran, is a black Santa. He welcomed children at the Mall of America in Minnesota. Families flew in from other states to see him in the big red suit. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oVNmPMEcTs

But there is still resistance to this Santa. Can Santa come in different colors, or should he be the traditional white Santa?

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