Tag: media bias
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 […]
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 […]