Miss Manners Weighs In On The “New” Heckling

Miss Manners has observed that “heckling is attempting to reinvent itself under the popular name of ‘audience participation.’ The Internet having given us the means of widely disseminating immediate personal reactions to just about everything, the idea has arisen that doing so will enhance any format. Sorry, all you little whizzes who thought you could outsmart Miss Manners: Using a new method of achieving a rude aim does not catapult you into etiquette-free territory.”