Comments on: Training citizens http://www.tamark.ca/public/2007/03/25/training-citizens/ It's about the journalism Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:09:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://www.tamark.ca/public/2007/03/25/training-citizens/comment-page-1/#comment-111491 Ryan Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:14:40 +0000 http://www.tamark.ca/students/2007/03/25/training-citizens/#comment-111491 It's my impression that the educators thinking over these problems often bring it back to media literacy, and it seems like a good idea, but the reason I decided to get into journalism in the first place was that I had become media literate, and I wasn't satisfied with the state of the media. So once we have all these undergrads trained in media literacy -- let's boil that down for a second -- we're trying to install 'crap detectors' in these students -- there we'll be with millions of potential consumers of media that will have higher standards and will accept less pablum and pacification in their news. That's certainly something to work toward, although it's hard to imagine folks in the news business being too excited about it as a potential future... It’s my impression that the educators thinking over these problems often bring it back to media literacy, and it seems like a good idea, but the reason I decided to get into journalism in the first place was that I had become media literate, and I wasn’t satisfied with the state of the media.

So once we have all these undergrads trained in media literacy — let’s boil that down for a second — we’re trying to install ‘crap detectors’ in these students — there we’ll be with millions of potential consumers of media that will have higher standards and will accept less pablum and pacification in their news.

That’s certainly something to work toward, although it’s hard to imagine folks in the news business being too excited about it as a potential future…

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