Next Up: Bloomberg Comes for Your Headphones

Next Up: Bloomberg Comes for Your Headphones

You heard that right (har har): America’s Most Concerned Mayor has decided to take on overly-loud headphone usage, out of fear that New Yorkers are going deaf. While he’s not quite charging into the same grabby crusade he levied against Big Gulps—there are no proposed laws (yet)—he’s creating a social media campaign to warn New Yorkers of the dire consequences of listening to the ol' iPod on full volume.

Hizzoner’s health officials are planning a social-media campaign to warn young people about the risk of losing their hearing from listening to music at high volume on personal...