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 […]