{"id":1963,"date":"2010-04-29T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2010-04-29T09:53:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:53:48","slug":"death-by-power-point-in-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/29\/death-by-power-point-in-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Death by Power Point in the military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/27\/world\/27powerpoint.html?src=me&amp;ref=general\">most popular article right now<\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1964\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/29\/death-by-power-point-in-the-military\/27powerpoint_ca0-articlelarge\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1964\" title=\"27powerpoint_CA0-articleLarge\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/04\/27powerpoint_CA0-articleLarge-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/04\/27powerpoint_CA0-articleLarge-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/04\/27powerpoint_CA0-articleLarge-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/04\/27powerpoint_CA0-articleLarge-450x255.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/04\/27powerpoint_CA0-articleLarge.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> on the New York Times&#8217; website is about the U.S. military&#8217;s overuse of Power Point presentations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last year when a military Web site, <a title=\"Restricted access\" href=\"http:\/\/companycommand.army.mil\/\">Company  Command<\/a>, asked an Army platoon leader in Iraq, Lt. Sam Nuxoll, how  he spent most of his time, he responded, \u201cMaking PowerPoint slides.\u201d  When pressed, he said he was serious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to make a storyboard complete with digital pictures, diagrams  and text summaries on just about anything that happens,\u201d Lieutenant  Nuxoll told the Web site. \u201cConduct a key leader engagement? Make a  storyboard. Award a microgrant? Make a storyboard.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/6012\/soldiers-learn-to-be-media-savvy\">this 2005 story<\/a> I did about soldiers&#8217; media training at Fort Drum, troops spoke grudgingly about &#8220;death by Power Point&#8221;.\u00a0 Most everything learned not out on the training fields and firing ranges comes from a Power Point presentation.<\/p>\n<p>I found this odd, especially when it came to post-deployment screening for combat-related trauma.\u00a0 In both of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/10259\/troops-train-for-family-life\">these<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/10420\/ptsd-at-drum-pt-1-what-the-military-does\">stories<\/a>, people in charge of soldiers&#8217; mental health describe Power Point presentations as a principle method for teasing out PTSD-related issues.\u00a0 It just seemed too impersonal for a mental health challenge that&#8217;s so emotional and stigmatized to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>The Times article also cites <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/print\/draft-draft-draftpowerpoint-1\/\">a blog post<\/a> from a Fort Drum soldier, Captain Crispin Burke.\u00a0 When asked to do an interview over the phone, Burke e-mailed the paper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI would be free tonight, but unfortunately, I work kind of late (sadly  enough, making PPT slides).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most popular article right now on the New York Times&#8217; website is about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}