Tag: Does This News Make Me Look Fat?
Media literacy lesson: Covering story is not the same thing as covering the news.
“We’ll cover the story” You’ll hear that from some news outlets. “Getting the story.” Though some media outlets tend to use the terms interchangeably, getting the “news” and a “story” […]
Media literacy lesson: If media is left or right at its core, Why didn’t Fox News accept MSNBC’s surrender in 2002?
Why liberal and conservative media are nothing more than brands like Coke and 7Up. It wasn’t that long ago (around 2002, just before the Iraq War) that MSNBC, now considered […]
Media literacy lesson: Don’t Confuse “That’s outrageous” for “That’s untrue.”
Part of having good media literacy skills is to know when words are being used to imply a statement, when its true meaning does not support it. This is a […]
Mental Obesity. How poor media literacy skills can cause parents to leave children vulnerable.
Is it okay to give a two-year old a bottle of hot sauce to drink? Of course not. If you saw another parent doing so, you’d likely call child services […]
Media literacy lesson: Analysis and opinion versus news. Why opinion dominates cable news.
Analysis and opinion media content is outpacing news content and becoming a bigger and bigger part of the media landscape and our information consumption. Often beating out real news because […]
Media literacy lesson about Prop Proof. An example from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. [VIDEO]
In my book Does This News Make Me Look Fat?, I talk about prop proof. Using a prop to back up of claim that often isn’t supported by what is […]
Media literacy lesson: How to add the spice of drama to media content? Just add infidels.
As I say in my book Does This News Make Me Look Fat? Ingredients like sex, outrage and drama are added to media content in order to make otherwise bland […]
Media literacy: How ingredients inside media content wage war on your rational thinking.
Chocolate cake. Fattening. Lots of sugar. You know, it will destroy your diet. You know why it will. Yet, there it is (or what’s left of it) sitting on your […]
The future of media literacy? “Cause it’s got electrolytes” Why talking points we pick up from media sources to make us smart often don’t. [VIDEO]
What are talking points? Talking points are essentially bulleted ideas; a verbally presented PowerPoint, to make bite-sized arguments that you can easily chew on and mentally digest and remember. More […]
A call for media literacy: What does a mentally obese world look like? A lot like the one you live in. Here’s why.
We live in an increasingly complex world. More of a data-driven world. A world that, more and more, rewards those who are media literate and can robustly utilize and metabolize […]