I think my strongest and clearest conviction coming out of the election last week is that every high school needs to teach a course on media literacy. And you're right, that there also needs to be some kind of mass awareness campaign for adults, too. Earlier this summer my dad (career newspaper editor, now a media studies professor) and I (ex-new media) explained to two of my very intelligent and well-informed friends how fact-checking, libel laws, and opinion vs editorial divisions work at traditional media, and they were blown away.
I think my strongest and clearest conviction coming out of the election last week is that every high school needs to teach a course on media literacy. And you're right, that there also needs to be some kind of mass awareness campaign for adults, too. Earlier this summer my dad (career newspaper editor, now a media studies professor) and I (ex-new media) explained to two of my very intelligent and well-informed friends how fact-checking, libel laws, and opinion vs editorial divisions work at traditional media, and they were blown away.
Vangelis