Nina Totenberg, NPR; 'The Personification Of Human Decency': Nina Totenberg Remembers Cokie Roberts
"To know Cokie was to see the personification of human decency. There is a
reason she was asked to speak at so many funerals. People felt such a
deep connection to her because she touched their lives. Casual friends
would find Cokie visiting them in the hospital. People in terrible
financial straits would find her bailing them out, hiring them for work
that perhaps she did not need, but work that left them with their
dignity...
On a larger scale, she was always the voice of people with less power,
and the voice of what is right. I remember one day many years ago, when
we were in negotiations with NPR management over a labor contract.
Management didn't want to extend health care coverage to one group, and
we were at an impasse.
Then Cokie, who was working on a piece of embroidery, looked up at the
management team and said, "You know, the position you are taking isn't
immoral, it is simply amoral." The room got very quiet, and soon the
impasse was over."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Khan confrontation keys in on human decency — and that could haunt Trump; Washington Post, 8/1/16
Philip Rucker, Washington Post; Khan confrontation keys in on human decency — and that could haunt Trump:
"“Nobody minds when he attacks other politicians; in fact, they like it. He’s instilling an accountability that doesn’t exist. But they don’t like it when he goes after real people, and they wish he would stop,” said GOP pollster Frank Luntz, who conducted a focus group about Trump with voters Friday in Columbus, Ohio. David Axelrod, a former strategist for President Obama, agreed. “I think people appreciate and even enjoy when he kicks the high and mighty in the butt, but I think they recoil when he is unkind to people who are vulnerable or when he is nasty to people who are thoroughly honorable,” he said. Axelrod added, “I just think people have a fundamental sense of decency, and they want their president to have a fundamental sense of decency, even if they’re tough and willing to take on so-called political correctness.”"
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